In an effort to try something new with their customers, Target, Wal-Mart, and Best Buy are all trying something a little new to boost sales.

I’ll start with Best Buy: It is opening a store in New York, but it’s not just any store. It is a 24 hour store. This way, people can go get their electronics at any time of the day or night. The store will be opening in New York City’s Union Square. It will be open from 8 a.m. Monday through midnight on Saturday. On Sunday, the store will be open from 10 to 8.

Don’t expect this to be something that all Best Buy stores will implement. The Union Square store is meant to offer electronics to all the nearby residents and colleges.

At Wal-Mart, you can now buy over the count medicines, makeup and even diapers to be delivered to your house. Wal-Mart is trying to step up its competition with other online retailers such as Amazon.com and even stores such as Drugstore.com and Walgreens.com to offer the kind of items that are becoming more and more popular choices for online purchases. Prior to this, you could only see the items online and see if they were available in the store, but not available to purchase online.

Target will now be selling digital magazines. This is good for not only Target but also for magazine companies who have had sales dwindle in the past few years.

All of these companies are after a market they previously haven’t been serving. Hopefully these are all good moves for the companies. I would personally really like to see more to be able to order online from Wal-Mart; anything that would make trips to the store quicker or get to the point where I don’t have to make as many trips…that would be great!