Yet another twist for retail as Best Buy and Amazon bring back the traveling salesman
MarketWatch.com – Personal Finance
Best Buy Co. and Amazon.com Inc. see the future of selling electronics—and it’s happening in your living room. Best Buy BBY,-9.43% is hiring hundreds of salespeople to sit down with consumers inside their homes and recommend the electronics they should buy, part of a free service it has been testing in several cities and plans to roll out across the U.S. this fall. Read: The company hopes its in-home salespeople will help drive sales of TVs and gadgets at a time when fewer people are visiting sh…