Strange Re-Tales: Fraud and Big Shorts

I haven’t done one of these in a bit: reminiscing about my often surreal experiences working in retail. So here are two unrelated anecdotes I thought about recently for the first time in a long while. At one point, I worked for The Bay. For you Americans, The Bay is Canada’s version of Sears. Except […]

Strange Re-Tales: Fraud and Big Shorts

Despite Best Buy Being Out of Stock of Nearly Everything, Consumer Electronics Sales Were Down in 2020

Like many other sectors, the consumer electronics market has also been affected by the COVID-19 crisis. The surge in global demand for PCs quelled the pandemic’s negative effect on consumer electronics spending, which still slipped to $1.02 trillion in 2020, globally — down from $1.2 trillion in 2019. According to data presented by StockApps.com, global […]

Despite Best Buy Being Out of Stock of Nearly Everything, Consumer Electronics Sales Were Down in 2020