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This seems a lot more rational than some other closings where you hear about hundreds closing. Closing a few, but possibly replacing some of them with their smaller stores. Sound much more proactive than some closings we hear about.
Yeah, 10-15 out of 1,100 doesn’t really seem that drastic.
Best Buy has really missed an opportunity to stick it to Amazon. They own a huge amount of retail space that could double as warehouse/online order fulfillment. You know you aren’t getting counterfeit merchandise. Returns are simpler thru walk in. You can inspect before purchase.
Instead, you walk into the retail space and they are out of everything. A warehouse should never be empty.
I decided to finally get an action camera a couple weeks ago. I watched however many hours of video between the GoPro and DJI Action, finally decide on the Action 4, Best Buy says they have it so I go to the store.
There’s fucking no one there. The entire camera area has basically bare shelves, they don’t even have the action 4 displayed or any indication that they sell it despite being one of basically two options, and there’s no one to get to go get me one. I ended up putting in an order on the app and wandering the mall for 20 minutes.
Fucking stupid.
I went to best buy to buy a phone for my kid recently. They didn’t carry a phone case for the phone they sold me. They had phone cases for every iPhone you could imagine, ones they didn’t even sell. Cases for lots of phones they didn’t sell.
Crazy to me that they don’t at least stock a couple cases for the phones they sell in store.
Is this the same store chain that has a CIA substation underneath in the Burbank location? Oh wait, I’m thinking of Buy More and their Nerd Herd.
Is this a fucking “Chuck” reference?
Holy shit
I miss that show. It was so perfectly cheesy and fun and silly, with a great array of characters. The finale was great.
Excuse me?? A reply by THE Alex Sadler about the TV show Chuck?? I think I can turn off the Internet for the day. I’m satisfied.
Captain Awesome was the chillest most understanding dude of all time
Last time I went in there (probably 6-7 years ago now) I got asked 5 times in like 15 minutes if I needed help with something. Like fucking chill! I gave up on trying to find anything because I couldn’t think with being pestered. I also could tell I was being followed through the store by one of their loss prevention people while I was wearing business clothes on the nicer end of town.
I remember going in there once to get a cable for transferring data between drives and it was awesome because otherwise I would have had to wait days for one to come in. Being able to pick up something specialized or computer parts was pretty awesome. It was even more awesome when there were stores dedicated to that. I feel like micro center was the name of the one locally before their stores disappeared.
I worked there for a bit in college and you have 30 seconds from when someone walks into your section to ‘greet’ people or else the managers will yell at you. It was so stupid and always annoyed everyone.
I am so glad we have a microcenter in my city.
And commercial real estate takes another lovely hit!
:( Best Buy has the best shuckable hdd deals
gemini://samsara.bebear.net/urbandict?shuckable
Maybe they should shut down and just only sell harddrives. lol.
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