Last night, we went out to eat and since we were already in the parking lot, we stopped in to Best Buy to look for printers. The one we have sucks and we need something better.
Best Buy is not the place to go looking for printers or anything else. The place is literally empty. I don’t know why they even bother to open the doors. Something is seriously wrong.It actually took us a couple of minutes to figure it out because they had plenty of printers on display, but beneath them, where the boxes for sale should be, it was completely empty. I mean literally empty. There wasn’t a single printer for sale in the store, period.
The employees were obnoxious, mostly because there were far more employees than there were customers. You couldn’t go 10 steps without another one begging to help you find something, but what was there to find? We went over to the video games and their shelves were nearly empty there as well. There might be displays but nothing else. In fact, that seemed to be the case for the entire store. They had piled a bunch of TV boxes at the front door to hide the fact that they had essentially nothing of substance in the store and the employees were just pathetically prowling the aisles, desperate to make a sale.
Yet they had nothing to actually sell. It’s no wonder Best Buy is following Fry’s Electronics out of business. The cause is pretty simple, Amazon has everything in the world, in stock, at your door in a couple of days. However, Best Buy itself bears a lot of the responsibility itself. They’ve been like this for years. I used to buy a lot of stuff there, when they actually had it. Then… they stopped having it. They stopped having anything that I wanted and I stopped shopping there. It’s not my fault, it’s theirs.
The only strength that retail stores have these days is the ability to see products in person and be able to buy them and take them home right now. If you can’t do that, close your doors. I wanted to put my hands on some of the printers I was interested in and had they had them in stock, I was willing to part with several hundred dollars right then and there.
Nope. Zero stock so they lost my money. Why even keep the lights on? Why pay people to stand around in an empty store? Why are you wasting your time?
Why did we? We wandered around for a while and then left. They had a chance and they squandered it. I can go anywhere to buy things. They have to earn my business and Best Buy has failed. Someone else will take over their store space when they’re gone. I will not miss them. They did this to themselves. It’s yet another company that couldn’t compete in the age of the Internet.
Good riddance.