Vendetta1 said:

Bye. Fuck 'em.

Retail darwinism in action.

veronikka said:

They wouldn't price match an iPad for me, I couldn't believe they were turning away money! I ended up buying at Microcenter

iPads are extremely thin on profit margin, so that doesn't surprise me. It's possible they weren't turning anything away and could have taken a loss to sell to you at a lower price.

If someone has a "sale" on them, it's most likely they've lowered the price to get you in the door in hopes you buy other stuff to make up the difference.

DAV123 said:

I just bought Controversy Album on vinyl for $12.99 at Best Buy ..... They have three more albums but for the life of me I can't remember the other 3. I was so excited to get the one I bought.

Same here. Got em all there.

eh, I got over losing The Federated Group

Locations of 2012 U.S. Best Buy store closings

Adisa said:

lastdecember said:

here in NYC hearing a customer ask for "Four Tops" and the sales person say "is that an animated film" then the guy says "no it's a singing group" and the salesperson says "oh what's his first name four?" WOW close them all

Dude, I actually went to full-fledged MUSIC store for the Sly Stone box set came out and the cashier had NO idea who I was talking about. Sign 'o the times, man.

But why is it that when we were THEIR age, we knew of artists and musicians that came 30, 40, or 50 years before US?

How pathetic.

When I was age 16 I knew who Count Basie, Bessie Smith, and Duke Ellington were because I would go to the library and read music publications cover to cover; and then I'd research composers and artists from decades past by checking out their bios.

The next generation is so culturally unaware that it frightens me.

Identity said:

How pathetic.

When I was age 16 I knew who Count Basie, Bessie Smith, and Duke Ellington were because I would go to the library and read music publications cover to cover; and then I'd research composers and artists from decades past by checking out their bios.

The next generation is so culturally unaware that it frightens me.

That's what I'm sayin'. Not to even mention Bach, Beethoven, or Chopin.

Horrible customer service... if you get a sales associate to help you don't let them go are you'll never get any mo' help.

The Best Buy in my area stays packed and you see folks walking out with stuff but I put down Best Buy a long time ago. In terms ofaccessories / software they never have anything I'm looking for. Still, I get tired of having to order most of my tech stuff online, there are times when I would love to walk in a store and walk out with whatever I need.

Best Buy is kinda played out anyway.I prefer Fry's Electronics.

Good riddance to them. They weren't shit anyway. The only music they had was music from huge name stars that any music lover would already have in their collection. They used to have a nice selection of DVDs of TV show seasons and then they reduced it to mainly TV shows, both old and new, that are currently on the air. Who in their right mind would buy something that is on the air nowadays that they could record for free?

Their electronics are absolutely horrible also. I had a JVC stereo receiver that I bought at Rex in 1994 and it lasted all these years until two years ago. Rex is now out of business and so is Circuit City. The only thing left is Radio Shack (I never liked the brand Realistic) and Best Buy. I went to Best Buy two years ago looking for a receiver. The majority of the receivers had all these features I will never use such as being capatible with being a home entertainment center for TVs. Yeah, those are nice features but they also drive the price of the receiver up and it's not worth it considering I will never use those features. Hell, I have an old TV with a converter box on it and am fine with it. I was looking for a receiver plays music. I also wanted one that had RCA jacks and a ground wire jack in the back for a turntable in case my mixer dies on me in the future. The hell with all those other features. That left me with only two options. A Sony which costed over $300 and the Best Buy brand called Insignia for a little over $100. I be damned if I'm going to pay $300 or more for a simple receiver and I never have liked Sony brand anyway with their monopoly ass and they aren't that good a product anyway. I have a Sony DVD player that darkens if I try to plug it into something and make a copy of a DVD and I have a cheap DVD player that doesn't. Sony is also in the music and movie business so they have their reasons for all this copy guard bullshit and I don't want it on my equipment because I'm going to make copies. All I planned on spending on a receiver anyway was around $150 and if Rex had still been around, I would have had a selection to choose from at that price.

Good riddance to Best Buy. They're a monopoly and they deserve to go out of business.

TonyVanDam said:

alphastreet said:

Oh hell no! Where the hell are we supposed to buy equipment and games from?

From these Illuminati-driven bastards:

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That's another one I'd like to see fall. Since they have become the "Superstores" that have groceries also, so many grocery stores have gone out of business and they have also driven all the other discount stores out of business except for Fred's and Roses. I'm a person that hates shopping and when I need to pick up a few items, I want to be able to park pretty close to the door, buy what I want without waiting in long lines, and be gone in about 15 or 20 minutes. I have no desire to spend that amount of time in just looking for a parking place and then spending two hours in the store afterwards only to leave with hardly nothing because they don't really have much of anything anyway except for necessities like soap, shampoo, etc. which I now get from Dollar Stores.

PDogz said:

Adisa said:

Dude, I actually went to full-fledged MUSIC store for the Sly Stone box set came out and the cashier had NO idea who I was talking about. Sign 'o the times, man.

But why is it that when we were THEIR age, we knew of artists and musicians that came 30, 40, or 50 years before US?

Because media was very diverse back then. It wasn't just for Romper Roomers. We didn't have reality bullshit all over the airwaves on TV and when it wasn't during prime time hours, TV didn't fill up the airtime with infomercials. They filled it up with old movies, old reruns, or local programming. We had three networks and we had 50 times more variety than what's on the 100 channels these days.

Radio would throw in an old song from time to time. We first became aware of an old song in it's entirety, not from being used in a sample in some no talent new artist's song. We had a lot of variety shows on TV also such as Sonny and Cher, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flip Wilson Show, Tony Orlando and Dawn, etc. that had new, as well as old guests, on the shows. TV shows were constantly making references to old actors such as Catherine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, etc. We may have never seen them, but we were sure aware of who they were because of all the references to them in current shows at the time.

vainandy said:

PDogz said:

But why is it that when we were THEIR age, we knew of artists and musicians that came 30, 40, or 50 years before US?

Because media was very diverse back then. It wasn't just for Romper Roomers. We didn't have reality bullshit all over the airwaves on TV and when it wasn't during prime time hours, TV didn't fill up the airtime with infomercials. They filled it up with old movies, old reruns, or local programming. We had three networks and we had 50 times more variety than what's on the 100 channels these days.

Radio would throw in an old song from time to time. We first became aware of an old song in it's entirety, not from being used in a sample in some no talent new artist's song. We had a lot of variety shows on TV also such as Sonny and Cher, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flip Wilson Show, Tony Orlando and Dawn, etc. that had new, as well as old guests, on the shows. TV shows were constantly making references to old actors such as Catherine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, etc. We may have never seen them, but we were sure aware of who they were because of all the references to them in current shows at the time.

Well that explains it. All excellent points, and food for thought. This was a very insightful response.

vainandy said:

PDogz said:

But why is it that when we were THEIR age, we knew of artists and musicians that came 30, 40, or 50 years before US?

Because media was very diverse back then. It wasn't just for Romper Roomers. We didn't have reality bullshit all over the airwaves on TV and when it wasn't during prime time hours, TV didn't fill up the airtime with infomercials. They filled it up with old movies, old reruns, or local programming. We had three networks and we had 50 times more variety than what's on the 100 channels these days.

Radio would throw in an old song from time to time. We first became aware of an old song in it's entirety, not from being used in a sample in some no talent new artist's song. We had a lot of variety shows on TV also such as Sonny and Cher, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flip Wilson Show, Tony Orlando and Dawn, etc. that had new, as well as old guests, on the shows. TV shows were constantly making references to old actors such as Catherine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, etc. We may have never seen them, but we were sure aware of who they were because of all the references to them in current shows at the time.

kewlschool said:

vainandy said:

Because media was very diverse back then. It wasn't just for Romper Roomers. We didn't have reality bullshit all over the airwaves on TV and when it wasn't during prime time hours, TV didn't fill up the airtime with infomercials. They filled it up with old movies, old reruns, or local programming. We had three networks and we had 50 times more variety than what's on the 100 channels these days.

Radio would throw in an old song from time to time. We first became aware of an old song in it's entirety, not from being used in a sample in some no talent new artist's song. We had a lot of variety shows on TV also such as Sonny and Cher, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flip Wilson Show, Tony Orlando and Dawn, etc. that had new, as well as old guests, on the shows. TV shows were constantly making references to old actors such as Catherine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, etc. We may have never seen them, but we were sure aware of who they were because of all the references to them in current shows at the time.

Like eveyone says...pretty soon they'll be nothing left but...

NDRU said:

eh, I got over losing The Federated Group

Oh shit, you're going way back . I still remember Zody's & Gemco stores.

Damn.. the one in Harlem on 117th street just opened up last year... I hope they put something else there and keep those kids employed

Identity said:

Locations of 2012 U.S. Best Buy store closings

Store Name	Address	City	State
Casa Grande	1004 N Promenade Pwy	Casa Grande	AZ
Lake Pleasant	10134 W Happy Valley Rd	Peoria	AZ
East Palo Alto	1751 E Bayshore Rd	East Palo Alto	CA
Westwood	10861 Weyburn Ave	Los Angeles	CA
Manteca	934 Perimeter Dr	Manteca	CA
Moreno Valley East	27220 Eucalyptus	Moreno Valley	CA
Ontario	4120 E 4th St	Ontario	CA
Pittsburg	4405 Century Blvd	Pittsburg	CA
Jamboree	2857 Park Ave	Tustin	CA
Arapahoe & Parker	15800 E Briarwood Cir	Aurora	CO
The Forum	9370 Dynasty Dr	Fort Myers	FL
Oldsmar	11655 W Hillsborough Ave	Tampa	FL
Fayetteville	128 Pavilion Pkwy	Fayetteville	GA
Loganville	4014 Atlanta Hwy	Loganville	GA
Addison	1038 N Rohlwing Rd	Addison	IL
87th & Dan Ryan	8900 S Lafayette Ave	Chicago	IL
Deerfield	200 S Waukegan Rd	Deerfield	IL
Matteson	4707 Lincoln Mall Dr	Matteson	IL
Mundelein	1100 N Rt 83	Mundelein	IL
West Dundee	979 W Main St	West Dundee	IL
Speedway	10500 Parallel Pkwy	Kansas City	KS
Back Bay	360 Newbury St	Boston	MA
Wareham	2421 Cranberry Hwy	Wareham	MA
Inner Harbor	600 E Pratt St	Baltimore	MD
Hunt Valley	118 Shawan Rd	Hunt Valley	MD
Biddeford	405 Mariner Way	Biddeford	ME
*Brooklyn Center	5925 Earle Brown Dr	Brooklyn Center	MN
*Edina	3200 Southdale Cir	Edina	MN
*Hutchinson	1350 Hwy 15 S	Hutchinson	MN
*Lakeville	18350 Orchard Trl	Lakeville	MN
Rochester South	4540 Maine Ave Se	Rochester	MN
*Rogers	20870 Rogers Dr	Rogers	MN
Ellisville	15678 Manchester Rd	Ellisville	MO
Monroe	3151 W Highway 74	Monroe	NC
Rocky Mount	1100 N Wesleyan Blvd	Rocky Mount	NC
Millard	12210 K Plz	Omaha	NE
East River Plaza	517 E 117th St	New York	NY
Steelyard Commons	3506 Steelyard Dr	Cleveland	OH
Salem Mall	5031 Salem Ave	Dayton	OH
Caguas	Las Americas Expry PR52 Zafiro	Caguas	PR
Middletown	890 W Main Rd	Middletown	RI
Hickory Hollow	5255 Hickory Hollow Pkwy	Antioch	TN
Techridge	12901 North I-35	Austin	TX
*Woodlake Parkway	6218 Woodglen	San Antonio	TX
Landmark Mall	5901 Stevenson Ave	Alexandria	VA
Cosner's Corner	9745 Jefferson Davis Hwy	Fredericksburg	VA
East Richmond	4410 S Laburnum Ave	Richmond	VA
Mill Plain	16611 Se Mill Plain Blvd	Vancouver	WA
* indicates stores notified March 29, 2012 of closure plans Note: Two stores in Kansas City, MO (Metro North) and Scottsdale, AZ (Shea) permanently closed in February 2012.

Sad to see that one in the Inner Harbor closing . It just opened like a couple years ago.. the Filene's Basement that was connected to it just closed recently, so once Best Buy is gone that whole newly-rebuilt area will be dead!

I hate to see businesses closing up downtown. It emphasizes how dead this city is sometimes.

luv4u said:

Best Buy is very popular in Canada and if they died out I guess Future Shop will get all the biz

Uh....hate to break it to you but Future Shop is OWNED by Best Buy.