Another Music-CD Competitor!!!
I just received this info. on Hastings. Here
is the address and write-up:
"(Nasdaq: HAST
Thursday July 30, 7:49 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release
SOURCE: Hastings Entertainment, Inc.
Hastings Entertainment Launches Electronic Commerce Capability On Its Web Site;
www.hastingsentertainment.com to Offer Full Range of Merchandise Through
InternetAMARIILLO, Texas, July 30 /PRNewswire/Hastings
Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq: HAST - news), a leading multimedia entertainment
superstore retailer, today announced that it has launched a sales channel on its
Internet
Web site, hastingsentertainment.com, to extend its special brand of
community-oriented entertainment retailing to the electronic global marketplace.
''We believe that Hastings Entertainment is the first fully integrated, multimedia
entertainment retailer that will be offering books, music, software, videotapes and
video games through the Internet on a single Web site,'' said John H. Marmaduke,
chairman and chief executive officer. ''This new e-commerce site will enhance the
entertainment experience for our current customers and provide the opportunity for
potential customers worldwide to experience Hastings' total commitment to satisfying
our customers' entertainment needs.
''For the past 30 years Hastings has been a community-oriented, customer-driven
retailer that focused on small to medium-sized markets that are many times ignored
by
other major chains,'' added Marmaduke. ''This new e-commerce capability on our
award-winning Web site now enables us to offer the global electronic community the
level of product selection, competitive prices and high degree of customer service for
which Hastings is known in the markets where we currently operate 123 superstores.
The company's site now provides full commerce functionality and currently offers
extensive book, music, software and video product lists, including hundreds of
thousands of titles.
The new hastingsentertainment.com site will include the following features:
ck selections available in five entertainment categories: books,
music, video, software and video games.
Secure Web-based credit-card purchases and fast direct shipping to customers
-- Album and book cover art.
-- Real Audio 30-second sound clips will be available for approximately 200,000
songs from 30,000 albums.
-- Customer reviews and rankings of individual releases,
-- Online chat ability for customers
-- Store locations information, including a list of open and
soon-to-be-open stores, street maps
SOURCE: Hastings Entertainment, Inc "
I am using Netscape 3.0, so I cannot evaluate
this new website for us. Is there someone on
this thread who is willing to check this out
and get back to us?
The survey I posted may give TSIG an idea on
how this market may be catered to. Surveys
such as this may keep TSIG ahead of the com-
petition.
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