5569 2010-03-11 22:09:21 UTC 1 1 Snap a picture of a product that initiates a search. The search should return the product identified (manufacturer and model number) along with other product information.<br/><br/>(I think I saw scr3wlo0se post this idea first in a comment under a different idea.) 46 CamG 2009-05-11 19:28:03 UTC 32 true 2960 product 109 search 3968 object recoginition 3967 photo 3966 picture 0 5567 2010-03-11 05:35:33 UTC 1 2 A Take-Back Program would allow customers to return old or broken electronics to Best Buy retail stores instead of being put out for trash. This program would help prevent e-waste from heading to the landfills and increase recycling and re-use of materials. This kind of program would be the first for a retailer of this size, and would make huge impacts on cleaning up e-waste. A discount on new purchase would encourage customers to turn in old products and purchase from Best Buy. 2260 JHKowal 2010-03-11 05:19:49 UTC 43 false 3960 brilliant 200 environment 3959 take-back 81 electronics 0 5566 2010-03-11 05:28:00 UTC 1 1 Cause it is just plain ridiculous. 2260 JHKowal 2010-03-11 05:19:49 UTC 43 false 72 customer service 3963 fees 0 5565 2010-03-11 05:26:14 UTC 1 2 Alternative energy should be accessible by all. If Best Buy were to start selling solar panels then the cost of the technology would start to decrease. Plus it would give more people access to technology and make it feel obtainable. Solar for all! 2260 JHKowal 2010-03-11 05:19:49 UTC 43 false 3961 electronic 1627 energy 16 solar 3962 renewable 0 5564 2010-03-11 05:19:16 UTC 2 2 A Take-Back Program would allow customers to return old or broken electronics to Best Buy retail stores instead of being put out for trash. This program would help prevent e-waste from heading to the landfills and increase recycling and re-use of materials. This kind of program would be the first for a retailer of this size, and would make huge impacts on cleaning up e-waste. A discount on new purchase would encourage customers to turn in old products and purchase from Best Buy. 2260 JHKowal 2010-03-11 05:19:49 UTC 43 false 81 electronics 171 discount 3959 take-back 3960 brilliant 0 5562 2010-03-11 04:24:01 UTC 1 2 Several Best Buy's don't carry Apple's line of computers. Why pass up on 15% of the market? 2223 macavada 2010-03-10 18:15:37 UTC 17 false 23 imac 20 apple 21 mac 22 macbook 3956 ipad 2 5561 2010-03-11 01:59:05 UTC 1 2 I can't believe this site has been active for this long and I never heard about it. Crowdsourcing and open innovation are the future of product development.<br/><br/>Best Buy should allocate some of their ad budget to promoting this site. I'm going to mention it on the Invention Addict Blog. 2241 InventionAddict 2010-03-11 01:43:39 UTC 37 false 205 ideax 221 advertising 0 5560 2010-03-11 01:43:06 UTC 2 2 I love three things (well probably more)<br/>coffee<br/>technology<br/>and free stuff<br/><br/>If I could shop at Best Buy, get a snack or a double espresso, and shop for technology related products I would be one happy geek. 2241 InventionAddict 2010-03-11 01:43:39 UTC 37 false 3957 free coffee 1271 coffee 3958 free wifi 1 5559 2010-03-10 20:10:42 UTC 1 1 I would like to buy with credit card 2226 PabloC 2010-03-10 19:13:27 UTC 11 false 0 5557 2010-03-10 14:30:08 UTC 1 50 Quirky has a variety of cool, out of the box, products that we feel would sell great in the Best Buy stores. In a similar fashion to your community of helpful associates that customers can turn to for tech help, we also have a community. However, our unique community is built of thousands of users(and growing) that come together to deliver new and innovative products. Quirky products are currently being sold in a number of online distribution channels but no Brick and Mortar store as of yet. We would love for Best Buy to be the first. Some of our product include the high selling PowerCurl cord management system for Macbook power cables, the Beamer-the first and only IPhone case that brings FLASH to the Iphone, and our newest creation the Quirky Cloak-The sleakest IPad Case out. <br/> <br/>Please visit us at <a href="http://www.quirky.com" rel="nofollow">www.quirky.com</a> to view our offerings, and reach us at the contacts below for information about distributing our Quirky products in your stores. Thank you for your time. <br/> <br/>Mike- a Quirky Member!<br/> <br/>General Inquiries<br/>628 Broadway<br/>3rd Floor<br/>NYC, 10012<br/>Phone: 866.545.4623<br/>Email:questions@quirky.com <br/>Interwebs:support.quirky.com <br/>About Quirky: <a href="http://www.quirky.com/about" rel="nofollow">http://www.quirky.com/about</a> 2216 canbu 2010-03-10 14:31:02 UTC 10 false 976 community 1528 innovative 3956 ipad 3955 quirky 21 mac 94 iphone 27 5555 2010-03-10 05:02:23 UTC 1 2 The bestbuy website search could have an advanced search. 2215 TheGamer 2010-03-10 04:58:45 UTC 19 false 0 5554 2010-03-10 03:31:11 UTC 2 1 If BestBuy had an iPhone app, people could buy things from their iPhone and I'm sure a lot of people would download the iPhone app and even pay 99 cents for it. 2214 manish 2010-03-10 03:31:45 UTC 11 false 94 iphone 52 mobile 161 app 1 5552 2010-03-10 00:55:53 UTC 1 3 Generate millions of dollars of new revenue streams by charging movie studios to advertising movies that are coming soon to theaters or DVD. The studios have already made the trailer and it would allow them to reach millions of customers for a very low cost.<br/><br/>E.g. Let's say you want to advertise your movie at for two weeks at a 1000 Best Buy stores. Your 3 minute trailer plays a total of two hours a day (40 times a day). You get your trailer played 560,000 times. BBY charges only $100,000. <br/><br/>Do this with 100 movies and generate an incremental $10 million or more profit for the company. 1316 master mind 2009-10-20 01:46:42 UTC 20 false 222 marketing 1 5550 2010-03-09 19:38:36 UTC 1 5 Every month or so, Best Buy sends me 10% off coupons in the mail. These coupons should also have codes for Bestbuy.com, as myself and others prefer to shop online. 1698 Brian 2009-12-20 06:31:05 UTC 17 false 322 bestbuy.com 620 coupons 62 reward zone 0 5540 2010-03-07 05:55:01 UTC 0 6 Switch to digital fact tags.<br/><br/>It seems like you print most of the fact tags in the store almost every day (to keep pricing current, etc...). <br/><br/>How much paper could you save by going to digital fact tags? It would benefit to the environment, make your fact tags more accurate, and make the stores feel more technologically advanced. The fact tags could even be interactive to give me more info. 108 retailgeek 2009-05-16 14:41:45 UTC 69 false 1 5539 2010-03-07 05:51:37 UTC 0 5 I find it annoying that every time I visit a store in a Clear market, I get solicited by a pushy (and presumably commissioned) Clear salesperson. Blueshirts aren't paid a commission for a reason, so don't allow vendors to put commissioned salespeople in the store. 108 retailgeek 2009-05-16 14:41:45 UTC 69 false 3948 clear commission vendor 0 5538 2010-03-07 05:47:22 UTC 0 5 Let me scan fact tags to add products to my wish lists, and to get more detailed product info. 108 retailgeek 2009-05-16 14:41:45 UTC 69 false 3947 3d bar codes 1 5537 2010-03-07 05:45:39 UTC 0 3 Store managers should make it a point to introduce themselves to the foursquare mayor of their store. On duty managers should monitor foursquare to know when frequent visitors are in the store.<br/><br/>Maybe even post a sign in the store with a photo of the current mayor. 108 retailgeek 2009-05-16 14:41:45 UTC 69 false 3946 foursquare 0 5536 2010-03-07 05:44:00 UTC 0 2 Since I'm already using your app when I visit your store, I should be able to check into foursquare without quiting your app and launching foursquare. 108 retailgeek 2009-05-16 14:41:45 UTC 69 false 3945 foursquare iphone appliocation 0 5535 2010-03-07 05:42:04 UTC 0 5 The policy of not allowing photography in the stores is way outdated. You guys are a CAMERA store. You have expensive displays that allow me to try your cameras in the store, and you sell me phones with camera's in them.<br/><br/>If I want to blog about your store, take a picture of a product to add to my wish list, or post a picture from my shopping to trip to facebook I should be allowed. Some of your products even have 3D barcodes that TELL ME to take pictures of them, and in at least one store you have 3D barcodes on your own signs.<br/><br/>How can you have a no photography rule? 108 retailgeek 2009-05-16 14:41:45 UTC 69 false 3944 policy no photography photo 0