Best Buy now putting niggerfaggot flags above their customer service counter. They've never had anything I needed so this is a good excuse to stop going permanently.
@deprecated_ii they are really impressively useless here. I have gone maybe twice a month to avoid having to buy online and I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually bought something because they are just perpetually out of everything except junk.
@deprecated_ii@RustyCrab Around 1994 they pivoted from "big box tech store with everything in stock" to "Wal-Mart where you can only find the 50% most mainstream stuff"
@Moon@deprecated_ii instead of trying to complete with microcenter they seem to have pivoted heavily into the home appliances market and only contain very very surface level tech stuff. Most of what they carry is off brand and low quality in terms of simple things like external drives and usb cables.
@allison@deprecated_ii@Moon I disagree actually because micro center is so niche and rare that most Americans simply do not have access to it. Best buy is everywhere. If they contained even entry level tech stock they would really take a bite out of MC.
@allison@Moon@deprecated_ii like the best buy near carries on average ONE GPU. Not "one type" of GPU. Just literally one single GPU of some random brand and architecture. I even asked about that before and they're like "nope what you see is what we got"
@RustyCrab@deprecated_ii@Moon Counterpoint: most Americans doing this kind of shopping do it online and for very good reason. Basically all physical retailers exist at the margins in this space and Micro Center is simply the one that is left after every single competitor either pivoted away for business reasons or ran itself into the ground trying (most recently Frys). I would love to be proven wrong about this of course, but if anyone can do it, it definitely isn't Best Buy.
@RustyCrab@Moon@deprecated_ii A few years ago I went into a Best Buy because I needed a pre-made system immediately, no time to order online or build one. They had their usual rows of desktops and laptops, but when one of their dozen salespeople jumped on me looking at one, he admitted it wasn't in stock. Neither was the one next to it. I went down the entire row of systems, including the flashy GAMERZ high end systems, trying to throw cash at him and walk out with one. Literally no systems were in stock out of about 20 SKUs, and new ones weren't expected in for a month. All they had on hand were about 1/3 of the laptops and some tablets/Chromebooks. "I can order it for you and it'll deliver in about 2 weeks!" Turns out Amazon was right to kill those fuckers off.
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