Never understood the airport store concept anyway. I could see if you lost your stylus on the plane or something and needed to pick up a replacement, but it seems unlikely that people would shop for multi-hundred-dollar devices while hurrying to their plane. Didn't seem like a casual/impulse buy kind of product.
Plus, if airport premium pricing applied to Palm stores as it does to other airport stores, you'd think most people in the target segment would know they could order it online for cheaper and would bypass the stores.
Seems like maybe visibility to the business crowd might have been the best benefit of those stores (Hey! Hey! We're not dead! Promise!). They should have sold coffee.
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Never understood the airport store concept anyway. I could see if you lost your stylus on the plane or something and needed to pick up a replacement, but it seems unlikely that people would shop for multi-hundred-dollar devices while hurrying to their plane. Didn't seem like a casual/impulse buy kind of product.
Plus, if airport premium pricing applied to Palm stores as it does to other airport stores, you'd think most people in the target segment would know they could order it online for cheaper and would bypass the stores.
Seems like maybe visibility to the business crowd might have been the best benefit of those stores (Hey! Hey! We're not dead! Promise!). They should have sold coffee.