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...that �lite, high-adrenaline environment with their members-only retail site, gilt.com Every day the site plays host to fashion sales, which, just like the real thing, fling open the doors to the current wares of a single designer?Zac Posen, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Alessandro Dell'Acqua?at insider prices ranging from 50% to 70% off. All sales have a daily start time of noon Eastern and last for a breathless 36 hours. And, of course, only invited guests are privy. (Befriend a member and ask for an invite to join.) "We really prize doing...
...market consumers are willing to go without a new Dell (DELL). Dell does not have much of a brand anymore. Even though HP (HPQ) is the largest PC company in the world, people do not gush about getting a new HP laptop. It is, more or less, a commodity. But, in the minds of many people, millions of people, the Mac is like a Bentley. It is a sign that some things are still worth having because they are designed better, work better, and make people feel better than the prosaic Brand X PC alternatives...
...program shows how out of touch with consumer trends Dell has become. According to the AP, "The leap Dell is asking consumers to make from its core brand would be a risk in any economy, let alone the worst recession of the personal-computer age." The news service has gone beyond stating the obvious...
...What Dell really risks is playing the fool in front of its investors again. The company was late getting into the retail business and away from the model of selling all of its machines via the internet or phone. As rivals like Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) have moved further into the software and services businesses, Dell has been flat-footed. Dell plans to get into the handset business, which is already crowded with cut-throat competition from RIM (RIMM), Apple (AAPL), Nokia (NOK), and Samsung...
...Dell's shares trade below $9, down from a 52-week high of over $26. If its next quarterly earnings are weak, investors will almost certainly knock the shares down again. That will leave fewer people...