Best Buy is not going out of business because Amazon is good. Best Buy is going out of business because Best Buy sucks. I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't live near a Fry's.
Best Buy has always been for the desperate 'NEED IT NOW' person, at least for the people who were computer literate.
Even when I worked there in 1999 briefly I only bought the stuff that got returned and had a super low 'open box' price... everything else was gotten from the more grungy hardware shops you find down dark alleyways.
Except for cables, employees got them at invoice and that was like $5 dollars for a $20+ cable :P
Which reminds me, we were pushed hard to make sure customers bought all the accessories we could because the computers themselves were little profit and the cables, mouse pads, whatever all had ridiculous markup.
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Best Buy is not going out of business because Amazon is good. Best Buy is going out of business because Best Buy sucks. I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't live near a Fry's.
So true. I recall when their stores opened. They were clean, the shelves were stocked with relevant products, and display units functioned.
Now it's just a dirty pile of what's left from last Christmas and display units that are un-powered or broken.
Don't get me started on their staff.
Best Buy has always been for the desperate 'NEED IT NOW' person, at least for the people who were computer literate. Even when I worked there in 1999 briefly I only bought the stuff that got returned and had a super low 'open box' price... everything else was gotten from the more grungy hardware shops you find down dark alleyways. Except for cables, employees got them at invoice and that was like $5 dollars for a $20+ cable :P Which reminds me, we were pushed hard to make sure customers bought all the accessories we could because the computers themselves were little profit and the cables, mouse pads, whatever all had ridiculous markup.
Not mentioning the fact that a lot of their employees in SF have very poor English for example, so they cannot really answer any product questions.