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The Clark Howard Podcast

04.14.21 Membership has its privileges (and costs) as retailers compete to sign you up. / 2 new home internet choices worth considering.

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Clark reviews the new Best Buy membership program as they compete with the bigs - Amazon Prime, Walmart+ & Costco.  Retailers are challenged to connect in new ways. CVS and Walgreens are also offering memberships.  /   Clark & Christa are testing out T-Mobile’s home internet. Hear their verdict on this flat rate alternative to traditional home internet. Simultaneously, more zip codes in the U.S. are able to get Starlink internet from SpaceX, offering high speed unlimited data, soon to blanket the nation. Ask Clark topics include: How to Open a Roth IRA  /  Index Annuities  /  Target Retirement Funds  /  How to Freeze Your Credit  /  Google Flights  // Want more money advice? Sign up for Clark’s free daily newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Lionsgate Plus.

0:05.0

Great entertainment is a crucial ingredient for the perfect night in, and Lionsgate Plus

0:09.8

offers you the kind of entertainment that sets your pulse racing and keeps you glued

0:13.8

firmly to the edge of your seat.

0:15.7

They've got nail-biting exclusive shows, mind-blowing original series, and heart racing

0:20.5

movies.

0:21.5

For entertainment that makes you feel, it lives on Lionsgate Plus.

0:26.1

Download the app and go to LionsgatePlus.com.

0:36.1

It's my pleasure to welcome you here at the Clark Howard Show, where our mission is to serve

0:40.6

and empower you so you make better financial decisions in your life.

0:46.1

In today's episode, other stores are now trying to come for the two bigs at Amazon and

0:51.7

Walmart in the delivery and membership game.

0:55.6

I'm also going to tell you about a new internet service that's now available nationwide.

1:02.0

So Best Buy had actually a pretty good pandemic, which is weird to say, in that they were able

1:11.0

to pivot pretty well to dealing with the fact that they are a showroom that no one could

1:18.6

come to in most states or would come to in other states during the pandemic.

1:25.0

And I remember during the height of lockdown that Best Buy at a lot of stores had 32 designated

1:35.1

spaces for curbside pickup.

1:38.4

Were you to order at BestBuy.com and you'd pick up?

1:42.1

And sometimes it worked well, sometimes it didn't.

1:46.2

But Best Buy, which was one of the retailers who might have really taken it hard on the

1:52.1

chin during coronavirus, actually did come through okay.

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