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Article: Cox Goes Retail with New Orleans Store.(Cox Communications Inc.)(Brief Article)
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- March 13, 2000
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Cox Communications Inc. last week said it opened its first stand-alone retail showroom in New Orleans last month. The MSO had also previously tested retail kiosks in some of its markets.
"It was their idea' Cox executive vice president of operations Maggie Bellville said in explaining why New Orleans was the first of Cox's systems with a retail showroom. "They're in a competitive environment, and they wanted to get out in front with something different."
Eight additional Cox systems have expressed interest in opening retail showrooms of their own "immediately," Bellville said last Thursday, following a keynote address at the CTAM Digital and PPV ...