Consumer Reports Rates Online Stores as Best Places to Buy Electronics; Retailing Powerhouses Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart Rate Middling to Below Average on Price, Selection, Service for Electronics.

AScribe Business & Economics News Service, November, 2005

Byline: Consumers Union

YONKERS, N.Y., Nov. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- In addition to specialty stores, electronics products are now sold practically everywhere, from big stationery stores to mass merchandisers. That omnipresence can create the false impression that it doesn't matter where that digital camera or TV is bought. But according to the December issue of Consumer Reports, not all electronics stores are created equal.

Retailing powerhouses Best Buy, Circuit City, and Wal-Mart may not be the best places to buy electronics. Those chains rated only middling to below average on price, selection, and service, according to more than 18,700 Consumer Reports readers surveyed this spring who bought

a TV, digital camera, DVD/DVR player, camcorder,...

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