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Best Buy Employee Tackles Laptop Thief, Receives Pink Slip
MaximumPC.com ^ | 5-3-11 | Paul Lilly

Posted on 05/06/2011 7:52:15 PM PDT by rawhide

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To: Sir Gawain

Lootie’s a little busy these days. He’s the new “Opportunity Czar.”


61 posted on 05/06/2011 10:41:25 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: Soothesayer9
And if the guy had a piece...

Huh?

62 posted on 05/06/2011 10:42:33 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: Soothesayer9

“There is a reason we hire police officers.”

Because we’re all sheep like you?


63 posted on 05/06/2011 11:07:57 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: My Favorite Headache
But their policy is just like dozens of other stores who are too afraid to lay hands on anyone due to insurance and lawsuits.

In my neck of the woods, the stores with aggressive anti-shopplifting policies are widely known by the criminals and have very low rates of shoplifting losses.

BTW, about half the people I know will not put a foot inside a Best Buy because of their horrendous, belligerent store management. I'm included in that group.

64 posted on 05/06/2011 11:20:08 PM PDT by Prokopton
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To: rawhide

>I understand Best Buy’s take on this and for that I do not have a problem, my question is why do they ask to see your receipt if they are not allowed to stop you nor detain you? I usually just keep on walking, ignoring the receipt checkers, but the question is why do they even ask, knowing that they cannot stop you?<

That’s what I am asking too! These clowns at the front ask for the receipt but if I run out with an Ipad, will these clowns ask for it? Stupidity. Good thing I go to BB to check out the physical measurements and buy the same item on Amazon.


65 posted on 05/06/2011 11:23:25 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO)
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To: Drango

Fry’s is great when you know what you are looking for. But their service is damn worse.

Sometimes they even cheated me out of the price on the flyer. The clerk needed “permission” from the mgr to make the correction which is $70 LESS.

The manager stayed in her office for 30 minutes...thinking I would just go away. I DIDN’T. Caught her again coming out, gave her the look and she had to make the discount. It was my day off so I had ‘time’.


66 posted on 05/06/2011 11:26:48 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO)
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To: max americana

Dear Best Buy:
Last week was the first time in three years that I bought something from you. Now I learn that my price was padded to make up for your loss to thieves that you do not protect yourselves from.
Bummer. I think that I will shop from stores that actively work to minimize their losses to thieves.
Bye bye Best Buy.


67 posted on 05/07/2011 1:43:03 AM PDT by american_ranger
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To: rawhide

>> Because it’s against company policy to interfere with a crime-in-progress

The stolen laptop is not worth the injury liabilities. Best Buy can still go # itself for terminating the guy.


68 posted on 05/07/2011 1:49:13 AM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: EvasiveManuever
We also need Tort Reform because people with your attitude are a menace to society.
69 posted on 05/07/2011 4:43:45 AM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Vision
Oddly,it used to be the rule that people committing a crime assumed all risks.

But then lawyers began aggressive advertising,law schools began cranking out thousands more new lawyers than previously needed each year, and now look at the mess.

As a nation,we produce and laud lots of unscrupulous lawyers,atheletes, and politicians but look down on engineers and blue-collar workers.What a mess.

70 posted on 05/07/2011 6:30:57 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: Squawk 8888

$40-80 is about typical for little home and small biz fixers here in my area as well like me that are any good.


71 posted on 05/07/2011 7:53:31 AM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: american_ranger

LOL! Like I said, I only go to BB just to look at the physical measurement of the item, test it out, THEN buy the item online like Amazon.


72 posted on 05/07/2011 8:01:22 AM PDT by max americana (FUBO)
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To: mountainbunny

You echo my thoughts exactly. I may go to Best Buy once a year, when no one else has what I need on an immediate basis, but I avoid it like the plague usually.

I really don’t know how they stay in business.


73 posted on 05/07/2011 10:35:47 AM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: Chickensoup

Oldest daughter at Marshalls.


74 posted on 05/07/2011 3:33:14 PM PDT by Chickensoup (The right to bear arms is proven to prevent government genocide. Protect yourself!)
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To: rawhide

Best Buy in action:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379476/posts

This one was idiots all the way down, not just the Best Buy people.


75 posted on 05/07/2011 4:50:03 PM PDT by SoIA-79 ("The plans differ; the planners are all alike." – Bastiat)
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