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OneEightHundred posted:The impression I got was the opposite, that Circuit City went under largely because Best Buy was doing so much better, one of many in a long line of electronics retailers failing to compete with them. Circuit City’s wounds were largely self-inflicted. The decline really hit when they decided to stop selling high-margin appliances and instead focus on extended warranties for consumer electronics. Having commissioned salespeople into the 2000s didn’t help either. Best Buy got a bump from Circuit City closing, but they were looking dire as well from about 2008-2012. The current CEO has done a pretty remarkable job of responding to the current market and turning the chain around.
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Jul 26, 2018 07:33
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Both times we recently went into Best Buy to feel a thing we were planning to buy online, we ended up buying there. Yes, we're bad people. We had to make sure a fitbit with a screen wasn't too big and heavy for my wife's tiny tiny wrists.
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Jul 26, 2018 08:25
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Are toy sales down or just Mattel's? I figured Amazon was killing TRU especially because a Barbie, Fluttershy or Optimus Prime is the same wherever you get it from, but it might also mean kids and patents have more of an eye for value and quality rather than just buying the first one they can find.
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Jul 26, 2018 08:52
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Are toy sales down or just Mattel's? There was confusion as to where the 10-15% of toy sales that TRU did annually was going to come from, and sales targets are down from a year ago, but big companies have been adjusting their retailer relationships. The tariff bullshit might still blow everything up though, because China.
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Jul 26, 2018 09:23
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Kids have iPads now, they don’t need toys
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Jul 26, 2018 11:44
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Beachcomber posted:Both times we recently went into Best Buy to feel a thing we were planning to buy online, we ended up buying there. gently caress Best buy. Any time I try to price match to Amazon they say, incredibly smugly "That's a third party vendor on Amazon we o ly match to Amazon" Or "Thats an Amazon prime deal only it's not available to the public." One time I just said okay, left the item on the register and walked away. The other time I needed the item same day so I did get it, but was mad about it. I only go if I need something they have in stock same day
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Jul 26, 2018 12:51
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Are toy sales down or just Mattel's? Well you can't ignore how Walmart, Target, and similar stores all have pretty big year round toy areas. So even people who purchase at a store had less need to do it at TRU.
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Jul 26, 2018 14:00
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Neon Noodle posted:Kids have iPads now, they don’t need toys It isn't just that. With wages stagnating and spending power down people just can't afford as much. Plus with millennials having fewer kids because they're broke why would you bu y toys?
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Jul 26, 2018 19:01
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Parents don’t look back at visits to the toy store with as much enthusiasm and wonder as their kids do, Amazon has given people a way to avoid them is all.
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Jul 26, 2018 19:14
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I hate going to Best Buy. The whole place is noisy and overwhelming, and interacts poorly with my anxiety disorder.
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Jul 26, 2018 20:57
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The Slack Lagoon posted:gently caress Best buy. Any time I try to price match to Amazon they say, incredibly smugly This depends greatly on the store and it's manager. My local one is kinda stingy with price matching but the one by my work will match anything, half the time they don't even check the competitor they just take my word for it. I bought an iPad Pro last month and told them Microcenter had it for $150 and he just matched it on the spot.
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Jul 26, 2018 21:10
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:best buy is dying because of signature requirements on cheap poo poo shipped It's probably more that there really hasn't been a high-dollar, must-buy electronic item for a long time. Best Buy did great when riding the great waves of upgrades from 'VCRs' to 'DVDs' to 'Blurays' and from 'big screen TV' to 'HDTV'' to 'LCD TVs.' Similarly w.r.t. digital camera megapixel upgrades + PC MHz upgrades. Now.... it's just plain hard to justify upgrading anything electronic.
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Jul 26, 2018 22:36
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Best buy seems like it's dying because if you don't care about technical details of electronics or computers you'd buy it at walmart and if you do care you'd be a person that would feel the most comfortable buying online. There is a real thin market segment for "cares a lot about computer stuff but won't use a computer"
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Jul 26, 2018 22:56
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Best buy makss plenty of profit right now. The store within a store stuff is highly profitable. poo poo like computers has absolutely lovely margins. But they still do a lot of that too and there are plenty of reasons to do so. With laptops people want to try them out and see how they feel in person. Best buys prices are also comparable to online. In addition they've changed their return policy to allow open box returns of laptops.
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Jul 26, 2018 23:09
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Best buy seems like it's dying because if you don't care about technical details of electronics or computers you'd buy it at walmart and if you do care you'd be a person that would feel the most comfortable buying online. There is a real thin market segment for "cares a lot about computer stuff but won't use a computer" Have you seen the laptop selection at a Walmart? Best Buy is still the best place to go for most of the population where the "I have $600 and need a laptop" question can be answered. Again, outside of stuff like USB cables their prices on computers and other major items are comparable to Amazon anyways. And if you're buying online you can buy from Best Buy's site and return in-store if you don't like it which is huge for some people.
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Jul 26, 2018 23:17
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FCKGW posted:Have you seen the laptop selection at a Walmart? It’s bad and that is the reason I’ve bought computers online ever since I got a Walmart emachine in 1998. Like most people
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Jul 26, 2018 23:28
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If it’s anything like the U.K. 90% of their profit will come from selling overpriced PCs and wipe your hard drive and reinstall warranties to boomers.
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Jul 26, 2018 23:34
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learnincurve posted:If it’s anything like the U.K. 90% of their profit will come from selling overpriced PCs and wipe your hard drive and reinstall warranties to boomers. PC World will sell you a service where they turn the computer on and click the mouse 6 times for £100 to 'setup' windows 10 machines.
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Jul 26, 2018 23:36
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My parents got “the full package” from PC World, within 6 weeks they were complaining that explorer was slow, wouldn’t let me remove the half page of toolbars because “we need them” or touch /msconfig to sort out startup because “you will void the warrenty”. and then we’re outraged when the “youth” at PC world told them everything would have to be wiped. Next thing I know I found out they had “paid a man from the village” £250 to “fix explorer” only to discover that he had simply changed all the explorer links so they opened up Firefox.
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Jul 26, 2018 23:45
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Walmart is okay if you want a sub-$300 laptop and give the least possible amount of fucks about specs, performance or even quality. For $500 and up, Best Buy is usually your best bet. I personally prefer Fry's and Micro Center, but going to either one is a 200-mile trip to the nearest non-lovely metropolis. The one thing I do miss about CompUSA and Circuit City is that they offered consumer variety. If I want a laptop and don't want to order it online, my only options are Best Buy, a smattering of tiny computer shops of various repute and the local computer store that also sells ham radios to neckbeards. Ratoslov posted:I hate going to Best Buy. The whole place is noisy and overwhelming, and interacts poorly with my anxiety disorder. That's the same way I feel about the Cheesecake Factory, except that it's also poorly lit in an attempt to generate a "romantic" mood.
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Jul 27, 2018 01:53
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FCKGW posted:This depends greatly on the store and it's manager. My local one is kinda stingy with price matching but the one by my work will match anything, half the time they don't even check the competitor they just take my word for it. I bought an iPad Pro last month and told them Microcenter had it for $150 and he just matched it on the spot. I'm not surprised when this happens anywhere, not just Best Buy. The staff, and these days often the management as well, are paid sub-living wages with few to no benefits and minimal to no commissions/incentives, so why are they going to care if you get an "undeserved" discount? Companies don't pay their employees enough to show them that they matter, so the employees work like they don't matter. You reap what you sow.
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Jul 27, 2018 02:48
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OneEightHundred posted:Inkjets are just a giant scam and terrible technology. Like there's just zero reason to get one when a mini color laser costs $150. My understanding was its relaunch would be akin to "radio shack" taking up a corner of some sprint stores or whatever they were doing
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Jul 27, 2018 03:32
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JustJeff88 posted:I'm not surprised when this happens anywhere, not just Best Buy. The staff, and these days often the management as well, are paid sub-living wages with few to no benefits and minimal to no commissions/incentives, so why are they going to care if you get an "undeserved" discount? Companies don't pay their employees enough to show them that they matter, so the employees work like they don't matter. You reap what you sow. Retail store managers are often paid upon how well the stores perform and and how much profit they make. The employees don't care if you get a discount or not but the store manager will for sure smack you down if it's going to cut into their profit and by extension their paycheck.
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Jul 27, 2018 03:46
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Raldikuk posted:poo poo like computers has absolutely lovely margins. e: There are exceptions, Bose poo poo is like 40% margin.
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Jul 27, 2018 05:04
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Store managers also bonus off of their customer reviews, so they're not as keen on slapping down price matching as you think. Anecdotally, in my store, it's usually the management telling cashiers to 'take care of the customer' more than the other way around. Of course, we don't price match anymore either. Also the trick to Walmart is to shop online and pick up in store, since their online selection is pretty broad and they usually shave a bit of a discount off for using pickup because it's what their pushing. Really the whole ship it to a distribution center/e-locker/brick and mortar store you own is growing in popularity. Especially for things you have to sign for, like computer parts.
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Jul 27, 2018 05:34
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It isn't just that. With wages stagnating and spending power down people just can't afford as much. Plus with millennials having fewer kids because they're broke why would you bu y toys? If I ever have kids, there's a few boxes of perfectly good toys in my parents basement. No ethical consumption under capitalism.
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Jul 27, 2018 05:43
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Flea markets can be good for Lego. Those basically never wear out. Maybe a little discoloration from sunlight.
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Jul 27, 2018 06:00
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learnincurve posted:Parents don’t look back at visits to the toy store with as much enthusiasm and wonder as their kids do, Amazon has given people a way to avoid them is all. TRU was killed by Bain.
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Jul 27, 2018 06:03
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JustJeff88 posted:I'm not surprised when this happens anywhere, not just Best Buy. The staff, and these days often the management as well, are paid sub-living wages with few to no benefits and minimal to no commissions/incentives, so why are they going to care if you get an "undeserved" discount? Companies don't pay their employees enough to show them that they matter, so the employees work like they don't matter. You reap what you sow. And price-matching has a tracked metric, so if a store is getting too high then everyone is forced to be anal about it for however many weeks. And it’s also individually tracked per employee, so try not to be too much of a dick about it if a regular associate tells you no.
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Jul 27, 2018 07:19
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CountFosco posted:If I ever have kids, there's a few boxes of perfectly good toys in my parents basement. No ethical consumption under capitalism. My in laws gave us a whole box of old TMNT and X-Men action figures and we give one of them to my kid like once a month as a reward for good behavior. It owns.
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Jul 27, 2018 14:04
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my child is spoiled and thinks he gets a toy every day  edit: i mean i can get away with a $1.00 thomas mini or a smash 'em but still
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Jul 27, 2018 16:59
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Just gaslight your children to think it’s the same day over and over and you never have to buy new toys
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Jul 27, 2018 17:19
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big trivia FAIL posted:my child is spoiled and thinks he gets a toy every day Lol what just tell him no. It’s the best part about being a parent.
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Jul 27, 2018 18:22
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Lol what just tell him no. It’s the best part about being a parent. oh i do, he just asks every single day
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Jul 27, 2018 18:24
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learnincurve posted:My parents got “the full package” from PC World, within 6 weeks they were complaining that explorer was slow, wouldn’t let me remove the half page of toolbars because “we need them” or touch /msconfig to sort out startup because “you will void the warrenty”. and then we’re outraged when the “youth” at PC world told them everything would have to be wiped. As person who used to fix systems for boomers. They just needed customer service not technical expertise, and the village man provided. Sometimes you just need to strategically avoid the problem rather than trying to solve it. Pro username post combo.
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Jul 27, 2018 19:18
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Moviepass has effectively ceased to function and you can expect a death announcement shortly. They ran out of money last night and had to borrow an emergency $5m to keep afloat. That seems to have run out too, as cards don’t work. You can still use e-ticketing if the theater supports it. This, and all showings of Mission Impossible (I.e., movie people want to see)have been blacked out or surged to almost $6 additional dollars per ticket. RIP dumb venture capitalists subsidizing free movies.
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Jul 27, 2018 21:12
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Moviepass lasted just long enough for me to become aware of it, interested, and disappointed. Though I suppose it would suck more if I had actually signed up for it a couple of days ago instead of waiting for when I had more time to watch movies.
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Jul 27, 2018 21:17
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It was a great way to drain venture capital while it lasted.
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Jul 27, 2018 21:32
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If anyone's a MP refugee, Sinemia is running a sale in response to this clusterfuck where their plans are a buck off if you pay for a year. It's $6.99 for two tickets a month, and you can go to any 2D showing and buy tickets in advance. If you were someone who could actually go to the movies every day, it's not going to replace MP, but $3.50 a movie ticket sounds good to me.
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Jul 27, 2018 22:01
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