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Every time I go to a Best Buy these days the shelves are barely stocked. I went in to find a coax cable and splitter, but the best they could do was offer to order it online for me. Why bother with their inflated pricing if I still have to wait for shipping?
Sucks that the employees are loosing their jobs though.
They seem to be in the same situation as Fry's Electronics. I worked with them the year before they closed and it was exactly as you describe. The shelves were barely stocked, there weren't enough people, the quality of products went way down.
It's sad because Best Buy is basically the only place to go to see things in person before buying them. It's important for TVs, Monitors, Laptops, Keyboards, and more.
It wouldn't surprise me if they close down for good within a decade.
Aww man rip Fry's. What a great company. Only place to get real Hi-Fi gear. They have a militant pricing policy if they label it a price they sell it. Once bought a pair of $800 reference speakers for $300 because someone accidentally put the price of the smaller model on it. Was ready to pay $800 but the manager went to the aisle and came back and was like "yep it's the wrong model price but we put it there" and approved the $500 discount lmao. What a hero.
The opposite is true as well. A couple years ago I got an alert for a sale on Dualsenses and I pounced on it in the morning. I ordered it in the morning and was expecting to receive it within the next week or two. It arrived in LESS THAN 4 HOURS. I ordered it on my lunch hour and it arrived before I got off work.
I'm not sure if they used some other gig service like DoorDash or Uber Eats or if they just had some store employee deliver it? I don't mind receiving things that quickly, but I certainly don't want to force someone to piss in a jug to get me my dumb little consumer electronics faster.
It depends on your market but Bestbuy does partner with Instacart, Shipt, and other partners to do same-day, sometimes for free even. My personal funniest story was buying a friend a tv and her asking where did it come from, because a skinny teen in a small sedan just dropped it off on her porch (Walmart purchase).
I haven't been to Best Buy in years, but that sounds like how Fry's looked when it was in its death throes. Which somehow lasted like 10 years