Dell Inc.'s direct-to-customer sales could allow it to turn a bird-flu outbreak into a revenue booster by letting buyers avoid shopping in public, the company's chief executive said Thursday.
"We deliver to homes," said Dell CEO Kevin Rollins. "People don't have to come to stores."
During the SARS epidemic, "our business in China boomed," he said, because people were either quarantined or sequestered themselves at home in order to avoid coming in contact with the deadly virus.
The same thing could happen again if there's a bird-flu epidemic, Rollins said.
Personally, I can't believe that the chairman of Dell would stand up at a luncheon and tell the guests how he expected his company to profit from an epidemic. I've never liked Dell computers, and now I have one more reason not to purchase anything from them.
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