BEST BUY SEES RED IN IMAC POLICY.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Some customers want blue, and some want green. But customers who head to Best Buy Co. stores looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. an iMac computer won't find any at all. Best Buy hasn't stocked the iMac since early this year because it disagrees with Apple Computer's requirement that retailers stock all five colors. ``We are not carrying the iMacs right now because there isn't exactly a match between Apple's purchase requirements and our inventory management,'' Best Buy spokeswoman Joy Harris said Monday. The $1,199 computers, on store shelves in five colors since January, have been most popular in blueberry blueberry, plant of the large genus Vaccinium, widely distributed shrubs (occasionally small trees) of the family Ericaceae (heath family), usually found on acid soil. They are often confused with the related huckleberry. and grape. The lime, tangerine tangerine: see orange. tangerine Small, thin-skinned variety of the mandarin orange species (Citrus reticulata deliciosa) of the rue family (citrus family). and strawberry strawberry, any plant of the genus Fragaria of the family Rosaceae (rose family), low herbaceous perennials with edible red fruits, native to temperate and mountainous tropical regions. The European everbearing strawberry (F. models have been less popular. Apple recently shifted its policy, shipping four blues with one of each of the other colors. ``We're definitely trying to work this out,'' said Apple spokeswoman Rhona Hamilton. So far, the adjustments aren't working for Best Buy. The company did not specify which colors it does not want to stock. Other computer stores said Monday they do not have a problem with Apple's policy. Suzanne Shelton at Dallas-based CompUSA said the purple models, dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. ``grape,'' have been very popular. But she said that when those run out on store shelves, customers are content to buy whatever is in stock. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) Best Buy Co. has stopped selling iMac because of a requirement that it carry all five colors. Associated Press |
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