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Best Buy announces locations for store closings
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Posted on 04/14/2012 5:34:30 PM PDT by nuconvert

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To: Gay State Conservative
Best Buy is dying because of the Internet

That's true too. My last few tech purchases have been from Amazon. Used to go to BestBuy for everything.

61 posted on 04/14/2012 7:33:25 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: ozaukeemom

Nor Indiana, mmmmm?


62 posted on 04/14/2012 7:38:07 PM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "p" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: nuconvert

BB CEO resigned. Laying pipe. Made $5 million last year. Not chump change.


63 posted on 04/14/2012 7:55:24 PM PDT by donozark (We're ALL Greeks now...and possibly, quite soon, Portugese.)
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To: nuconvert
Salem Mall 5031 Salem Ave Dayton OH

It's pretty bad when your store is still named after a mall that was torn down six years ago.

64 posted on 04/14/2012 7:58:08 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: nuconvert

Best Buys typically doesn’t carry whats on their websites.

And If I go online I’ll go Amazon.

Then they have the DISC TV beggars following me around each tine I go in.

So I stopped going in.

The Forbes article describes why the are going out of biz.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrydownes/2012/01/02/why-best-buy-is-going-out-of-business-gradually/


65 posted on 04/14/2012 7:59:07 PM PDT by NoLibZone (I'm with Sarah- Anybody but Obama, because it's not always about me.)
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To: nuconvert

I haven’t bought anything in Bestbuy since Circuit City went under. As soon as they thought they were the only show in town, they raised prices like crazy. Who would buy a computer or TV or DVD player from them when you can order one and pay half of their price even with shipping.


66 posted on 04/14/2012 8:00:09 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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To: zwerni

I imagine the amount of support Best Buy can count on from The Won is directly correlated to how much they have donated to The Won’s re-election campaign.


67 posted on 04/14/2012 8:01:19 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Obama 2012: Dozens of MSNBC viewers can't be wrong!)
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To: All

the showroom for stuff we end up purchasing cheaper online is having money problems?


68 posted on 04/14/2012 8:08:35 PM PDT by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: Revolting cat!

newegg.com

faster and cheaper


69 posted on 04/14/2012 8:15:10 PM PDT by NoLibZone (I'm with Sarah- Anybody but Obama, because it's not always about me.)
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To: BuffaloJack
I haven’t bought anything in Bestbuy since Circuit City went under. As soon as they thought they were the only show in town, they raised prices like crazy.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. They and CC used to have some great deals on DVDs. When CC went out of business, the sales at Best Buy got a lot rarer and worse. The only store I go into regularly to check DVD prices now is Target, which occasionally has some smoking hot deals but often doesn't list the best stuff in their ads so you have to go in to see what "other titles also on sale" includes.

70 posted on 04/14/2012 8:18:46 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The internet, their addiction to overpriced Monster cables, they’re deciding to go the same route Radio Shack did and bet the farm on being a Verizon reseller, that annoying magazine promotion they kept running for years constantly hassling you at the checkout, the Geeksquad charging a ton of money to poorly do basic tech support.

There’s a lot of reason BB is going down the drain.


71 posted on 04/14/2012 8:24:26 PM PDT by discostu (I did it 35 minutes ago)
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To: gnawbone
My brother works at Best Buy and he refers to Best Buy as Amazon’s show room.

It is common practice for people to check out products at Best Buy and ask the sales people about tech stuff before they buy it on Amazon.

72 posted on 04/14/2012 8:29:41 PM PDT by neocon1984
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To: Revolting cat!

Look up the shopkeeper law in Jewish law.


73 posted on 04/14/2012 8:33:27 PM PDT by szweig (HYHEY!! (Have You Had Enough Yet))
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To: nuconvert
87th & Dan Ryan 8900 S Lafayette Ave Chicago IL

This is in a BAD NEIGHBORHOOD, flanked by even worse neighborhoods.
74 posted on 04/14/2012 8:40:57 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: nuconvert

Six each in CA, IL, and MN. I wonder what their tax picture is these states? I knew someone who worked for Hollywood/Game Crazy here in IL who said the taxes were just too much to stay open.


75 posted on 04/14/2012 8:42:56 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Jane Long

They are hopeless. If you want to get ripped off on electronics you can just go to an office max, sams club or a walmart. Best Buy is totally pointless anymore.


76 posted on 04/14/2012 9:37:18 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (I take Olive Oyl on me spinach. She said she didnÂ’t go in for that kinky stuff but she does now)
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To: RegulatorCountry

I think I passed by their world HQ right there in a burb of Minneapolis last summer.


77 posted on 04/14/2012 9:42:04 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Negativity must die because it's self-fulfilling!!!)
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To: GreatRoad

” I stopped shopping at Best Buy when the one in Dedham treated me horribly. I was in shock at how disrespectful the staff was - like they were getting paid to harass customers. “

I had EXACTLY the same experience at that store, so badly that I’ve been making it a part-time job to keep as many people as possible out of that store. I get a whole lot of agreement about it. they can’t close it fast enough to suit me.


78 posted on 04/14/2012 9:43:20 PM PDT by Humble Servant
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To: RegulatorCountry
MN is headquarters & we're saturated with Best Buys.

No real brick & mortar competition. Only the internet.

79 posted on 04/14/2012 9:58:25 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: nuconvert
Hickory Hollow 5255 Hickory Hollow Pkwy Antioch TN

Demographic collapse...took about 15 years...fairly quick actually

80 posted on 04/14/2012 10:01:48 PM PDT by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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