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Best Buy, Wal-Mart Enjoy Circuit City Web Traffic

Circuit City closing down was obviously good news for electronics retailer competitors. But which ones are reaping the benefits the most? They are whom you’d expect: Best Buy and Wal-Mart. Hitwise reports on where online consumers go after being greeted with CircuitCity.com’s Sorry-we’re-closed message. Twenty percent of them float downstream to Best Buy’s website. Ten percent go to Wal-Mart, followed by Kmart.com and Sears.com with four and two percent respectively.

Apple To Offer iPhone At Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart may soon be the second major retailer behind Best Buy to sell Apple's iPhone.The phones will be available at Wal-Mart during the last week of December according to the Mercury News. Reports say that Apple will offer a 4 GB version of the iPhone at Wal-Mart and it will retail for $99.

Wal-Mart Launches Online Videos Of Presidential Candidates

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc has launched a video-based voter guide that allows both major candidates, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, to share their views on issues with the company's customers and employees.

Customers Cry Foul On Wal-Mart's DRM Decision

 In yet another shutdown of DRM servers, following on the heels of Yahoo and MSN Music,Wal-Mart is also shutting down their DRM servers casting millions of dollars in media locked into one computer, unless you can copy it over to disk. 

Wal-Mart Starting To Use Behavioral Targeting; via Yahoo

Yahoo has signed a deal with Wal-Mart under which Yahoo will start selling display advertising on Wal-Mart.

Big Retailers Flunk Search Test

So, while perusing Google's Hot Trends today I noticed a particular brand of digital camera was one of the top gainers in search queries: the Polaroid T730 Compact 7mp digital camera. Curious as to what's so special about it, I googled it, only to embark on one frustrating journey.

Wal-Mart Launches Online Classified Service

Wal-Mart has partnered with classified Web site Oodle.com to launch free classified ads on Walmart.com. The service is currently in beta.

Warner Music Group Offers Catalog To Wal-Mart.com

The Warner Music Group family of labels has widened its full catalog mp3 offering to incl

Wal-Mart Offering Refunds For HD DVD Players

Wal-Mart is giving refunds for HD DVD players purchased on or after November 1. To receive a refund customers need to return the players by April 30 with a receipt. Original packaging is not required.Best Buy is offering $50 gift cards to customers who purchased an HD DVD player or an HD DVD unit for a Microsoft Xbox 360 videogame console before February 23. Those who receive gift cards can keep their HD DVD players.

CDs Get Environment Friendly Packaging

The insert in more than 20 Universal Music Group titles being intro