[willwagner]

I like the QR codes at Best Buy; I use them all the time when I'm just starting to research electronics and I make a visit to one of their stores. It's convenient, I can store it on my iphone for later, and I can read user reviews, etc.

That being said, I'm not sure if they help or hurt sales because when I do scan a QR code, I typically end up doing comparison shopping and typically Best Buy's prices don't compete well with online retailers.

[bigiain]

I'm on the wrong side of the planet to check, but I'm bet reasonable money that Best Buy are running privacy-dubious redirection/browser-fingerprinting/analytics on the urls those QR code send you too.

Or if they're not, does anyone have a contact in marketing at Best Buy?