{"id":603466,"date":"2009-10-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/10\/23\/wal-mart-rolling-out-tech-support-services\/"},"modified":"2009-10-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T16:00:00","slug":"wal-mart-rolling-out-tech-support-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/603466","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart rolling out tech support services"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"guy\"Hey, lookin’ good there Mr. Man. I like your protective booties. They look like slippers!<\/p>\n

Wal-Mart has contracted with service provider N.E.W.<\/a> to offer tech support services, seemingly in an attempt to compete with Best Buy\u2019s Geek Squad and similar outfits.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably not a bad idea, seeing as though Wal-Mart is making a bigger push<\/a> into the consumer electronics retail void that’s been left open by the closing of stores like CompUSA and Circuit City.<\/p>\n

Plans will apparently be offered on prepaid cards with pricing set at between $99 and $339 for services such as TV, home theater, and wireless network setups, to name a few. Service will be provided by third-party contractors, so it’s not quite the same as how Best Buy offers in-store Geek Squad stuff. This appears to be more in-home service only, not counter service inside actual Wal-Mart stores.<\/p>\n

Service offerings are expected to roll out in all Wal-Mart locations by the holidays.<\/p>\n

[via Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n

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Hey, lookin’ good there Mr. Man. I like your protective booties. They look like slippers! Wal-Mart has contracted with service provider N.E.W. to offer tech support services, seemingly in an attempt to compete with Best Buy\u2019s Geek Squad and similar outfits. It\u2019s probably not a bad idea, seeing as though Wal-Mart is making a bigger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2wZk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}