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Best Buy Executive Summary

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LA #1 One business strategy Best Buy has attempted to turn around the company is with “Renew blue”. There are three major features of this strategy in attempt to improve the company’s image and profit numbers. The three are price reduction of products, improvement with the suppliers, and online sales (Bailey, 2015). The strategy that relates to the material for this week is “Market Development”. Implementing this strategy plan is definitely important with the turnaround of the company as a whole. Best Buy partnered with many competitors to help profit growth with this strategy. Best Buy has partnered with such competitors as Apple and Microsoft. The issues with partnering with the retail competitors is the supplier power that Best Buy gives
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