{"id":3919,"date":"2021-04-08T09:51:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2021-04-12T14:52:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T18:52:36","slug":"best-buy-tackles-amazon-prime-with-best-buy-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/best-buy-tackles-amazon-prime-with-best-buy-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy Tackles Amazon Prime with Best Buy Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Best Buy is launching a new membership program called Best Buy Beta. Similar to Walmart + and Amazon Prime, Best Buy Beta focuses on its own business strengths and free shipping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For $200 per year or $180 for Best Buy credit card holders, Beta members will receive unlimited Geek Squad technical support, two-year extended coverage for most purchases, free standard shipping, free installation for most products, and a 24 \/ 7 concierge service available only to beta members by phone, chat, or email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beta is more expensive than Amazon Prime or Walmart +, but Beta focuses heavily on a human element rather than simple economies of scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best Buy Beta is currently available in most stores in Iowa, Oklahoma and Eastern Pennsylvania. Those living outside the pilot areas can subscribe to Best Buy&#8217;s Total Tech Support program for the same price, but with fewer benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, you may view the original story from Arstechnica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Buy is launching a new membership program called Best Buy Beta. Similar to Walmart + and Amazon Prime, Best Buy Beta focuses on its own business strengths and free shipping. For $200 per year or $180 for Best Buy credit card holders, Beta members will receive unlimited Geek Squad technical support, two-year extended coverage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[107,105,106],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-best-buy","tag-retail","tag-wallmart"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3962,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}