HDTV’s for everyone!
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/12/news/companies/best_buy/index.htm?postversion=2008111209
[quote]etaco wrote:
pookie wrote:
Maybe Best Buy will follow…
If CC liquidates their inventory during the Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping season, it could deal a serious blow to BB.
Wow. Imagine the flood of competent and well-informed computer salesman on the job market.
Or not.
Part of the reason CC went under was that Best Buy was able to lure away customers with their more knowledgeable (lol) salespeople. The question is where did CC find staff more retarded than Best Buy’s. They must have been the only company sending reps to the job fair at the special ed school.[/quote]
Yes. This is my basic reasoning by Home Depot’s decline - their staff is much more retarded than Lowe’s and much more sullen. I love the scowls I get when I ask a Home Depot employee to help me with something while they’re talking on their cell phone or texting sweet nothings.
[quote]Not likely. A well-timed article:
http://money.cnn.com/...ddfeef85fc7.htm
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“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for,” is basically how that article read to me. Having shopped in Home Depot, I’d say they’re on their way out as soon as someone comes along with even better supply chain mgmt and/or (gasp!) customer service.
Better add Sears to the list as well.
[quote]etaco wrote:
pookie wrote:
Maybe Best Buy will follow…
If CC liquidates their inventory during the Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping season, it could deal a serious blow to BB.
Wow. Imagine the flood of competent and well-informed computer salesman on the job market.
Or not.
Part of the reason CC went under was that Best Buy was able to lure away customers with their more knowledgeable (lol) salespeople. The question is where did CC find staff more retarded than Best Buy’s. They must have been the only company sending reps to the job fair at the special ed school.[/quote]
I worked for a smaller midwestern chain called “American” for a year. To call the salespeople at Best Buy knowledgeable is a disgrace, hence your lol. Christ I hated them and CC. No knowing, undercutting dipshits taking money out of my pocket. Bunch of high school kids getting paid minimum wage to bullshit some old people and tell them “You gotta buy this one.” Whereas I tell them “You gotta buy this one,” and it makes me 300 bucks. ANYWAY…
On Topic. Circuit City did this to themselves. They would always sell stuff WAY below cost…Offer financing on it til the end of fucking time. It’s their own fault.
[quote]Chip Duglass wrote:
etaco wrote:
pookie wrote:
Maybe Best Buy will follow…
If CC liquidates their inventory during the Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping season, it could deal a serious blow to BB.
Wow. Imagine the flood of competent and well-informed computer salesman on the job market.
Or not.
Part of the reason CC went under was that Best Buy was able to lure away customers with their more knowledgeable (lol) salespeople. The question is where did CC find staff more retarded than Best Buy’s. They must have been the only company sending reps to the job fair at the special ed school.
I worked for a smaller midwestern chain called “American” for a year. To call the salespeople at Best Buy knowledgeable is a disgrace, hence your lol. Christ I hated them and CC. No knowing, undercutting dipshits taking money out of my pocket. Bunch of high school kids getting paid minimum wage to bullshit some old people and tell them “You gotta buy this one.” Whereas I tell them “You gotta buy this one,” and it makes me 300 bucks. ANYWAY…
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That’s why online retail has risen. It’s not so much that prices are lower (they usually are, but you have to factor in shipping), it’s that you get to cut out the interaction with listless sub-morons. It’s insulting to give one’s money to organizations that practically mock you for shopping there.