re: Best Buy cutting staff

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Sale. The word you're looking for is "sale."

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i teach math. i dont words good

Bestbuy seems to not really know what it wants to be. It tries to have a bit of everything, from computers to phones to appliances to TVs, etc. But that means that its selection of any of those things isn’t very good. A couple of decades ago, that was fine, but it just doesn’t work anymore.

Buy stock. When staff cutting starts, stocks go up.

Honestly, I am surprised there are still as many retail physical locations as there are. With the internet an all.

It seems bigger retail stores that rent, like department stores in malls could reduce their rent cost by getting into smaller stores and places like best buy could shut down some stores and use the land for something more profitable. But I could see a new type of mall pop up that has smaller starts of all the major retail places that have some items available, but is more of a customer service location where people can go exchange items, etc. That way, you only need a few people working, but it would have to be something more than just a mall. It could be some form of entertainment where the smaller stores also serve as advertising. And security would have to be a top priority. You can't just have typical mall cops fricking off. In today's world you need a place where if someone tries to do some dumb shite, there will be people right there ready to act.

Today we need a store like New Generation .

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Except that none of the others I can or want to go into.

I don't know the answer, but I appreciate having a best buy and the generally price match. Its one more local location I can actually go into and compare the quality. Its nice to be able to do that.

Walmart has very few items that you can actually try and touch. I may sounds like a boomer, but that's nice to do on occasion.

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You do understand that simply going in and looking around and not buying isn't good for the store's survival?

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Bestbuy seems to not really know what it wants to be

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Radio Shack says hold my beer.

Does yalls Best Buy have the door greeter with a tablet who asks if you need help and if you do, they'll take your name and have the next available associate with you momentarily.


I was looking for an item their website showed they had in stock, i couldn't find it, asked an employee walking by if I was in the right area and i was directed to the tablet greeter to put my name in the queue for help

You wasted whatever you “saved” on that TV going back and forth to Best Buy to argue with minimum wage employees.

Best Buy's only chance of survival is as a knowledgeable provider of large scale tech, sold at a slight premium, to people out there (there are still many of them) who don't want to buy a dryer or 65 in tv on Amazon.

Maybe they cut back their number of locations, in order to have one or two good ones in each major metro.

They aren't going to survive by cutting further their in-store customer service.

With the path they are on, I could see them spinning off Geek Squad into a new company / selling them off to someone else in a year or so, and everything else going out of business.