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Best Buy Has a Robot Salesperson

Here’s another job that robots have taken – Best Buy employee. That’s right, Best Buy is experimenting with full automation, at least when it comes to selling old media like CDs and DVDs. This New York City Best Buy store has a row of ATM-like kiosks in front of a glassed-in compartment.

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Cart Life: The Lemonade Stand Sim for the 21st Century

I love indie games. There’s just a sort of a creative freedom, ingenuity and singular artistic vision in many of these games that makes them often more fun than the big blockbusters. One unusual little indie game that recently popped onto my radar screen was Cart Life.

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Store Owner Wants Five Dollars to Let You Look around in His Store

I completely understand that it’s difficult for small retail store owners out there to make a buck today. After all, we have Walmart offering incredibly low prices that most smaller retailers can’t compete with in the retail market and then you have mega-stores like Amazon dominating when it comes to online shopping.

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Green Man Gaming Will Buy Back Your Virtual Cobweb Covered Digital Games

In a recent interview with MCV, Green Man Gaming COO Gian Luzio identified one of the reasons why games on physical discs are more popular than digitally downloaded ones: “Previously the minute you had paid your money and downloaded your game it had no re-sale value.” Note the “Previously”, because his company has come to save the day.

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Gamestop Summer Fun Bundles: Wii, Water Guns, and Wtf?

I’m not sure who decided that water guns and rubber duckies were just the thing to help sell the console that has never spent more than a few days at most sitting on the shelf, but that seems to be the thrust behind GameStop’s wacky new Wii bundles.

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Best Buy Has a Robot Salesperson

Cart Life: The Lemonade Stand Sim for the 21st Century

Store Owner Wants Five Dollars to Let You Look around in His Store

Green Man Gaming Will Buy Back Your Virtual Cobweb Covered Digital Games

Gamestop Summer Fun Bundles: Wii, Water Guns, and Wtf?

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