WaPo checks out a Best Buy store and tests the digital media/services subscriptions it is selling, including Internet movie rental service Netflix, all the leading ISPs and half a dozen prepaid Web content services, such as ConsumerReports.org and eDiets. Soon Best Buy hopes to sell Internet games and other Web services.
The latest addition to this has been RealNetworks’ Rhapsody music service.
“The next step in retailing may be to bring that personalization into stores, so you could sign in, say, on a touch-screen at the end of each aisle and see your saved “wish list” of movies, songs and favorite digital doohickeys with the prices and aisle numbers displayed for each. Better, that information could be beamed wirelessly to handheld computers attached to every shopping cart.”
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