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Re: Futureshop/Bestbuy abruptly shut down a dozen stores I was just reading that on CBC web site and I was like What the...
But BestBuy been in trouble for a while so it was bound to happen.
The company, which is closing stores in the British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and Ontario markets, will open a substantial, but unspecified number of its smaller Future Shop web stores and new Best Buy Mobile locations over the next three years across the country. |
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 vue666I'm in the prime of my senilityPremium
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Halifax, NS | I hate to hear about people losing their jobs.... I guess folks prefer to shop online at Newegg, NCIX, TigerDirect, etc.... |
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| said by vue666:I hate to hear about people losing their jobs...
It is never good to hear people losing jobs.
But people also dont like higher prices or poor sales job (lies?) from FS/BB stores. Mots of the stuff like electronics is mainly for men who dont go for that touch and feel type shopping. Buying online is getting big every year.
I am all for online shopping and small stores like NCIX.
I am wondering why did it take so long. |
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said by vue666:I hate to hear about people losing their jobs.... I guess folks prefer to shop online at Newegg, NCIX, TigerDirect, etc....
When a video card of the same make and model is $75 at newegg and $275 at Future Shop, where would you buy it? |
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| said by cpsycho:When a video card of the same make and model is $75 at newegg and $275 at Future Shop, where would you buy it?
Future Shop, after price matching. |
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Future Shop, after price matching. Nope. That's where they pull the BS about the competitor not being an "authorized" competitor. They misinterpret their own fine print in order to screw you. They did that to me. I tried to get them to price match Visions but they claimed that since Visions is out of province, they won't match it. Their policy says NOTHING about that. It cost them a $600 sale. That was FS.
BB did the same thing when I tried to buy a Wacom tablet. They said that they didn't authorize Canada Computers as a competitor of them so they wouldn't price match. Their actual policy says that the competitor has to be authorized to sell the product by the manufacturer of the product, not by FS/BB.
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kudos:5 | said by TLS2000:They said that they didn't authorize Canada Computers as a competitor of them so they wouldn't price match.
Translation: "we're not going to price match because we don't want to." Brilliant strategy! 
They did price match things for me on occasion, even though the only reason I was shopping there was that the competitor with the lower price was out of stock! But I wasn't asking for outrageous discounts. |
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Mississauga, ON | Exactly! They have a posted policy, but they only follow it if they feel like it.
What I see happening is that one chain is going to disappear. They'll rebrand it all to either Best Buy or Future Shop.
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agree I wanted to PM a BR at future shop after 20 forking mins of waiting around no go. They make up some many BS reasons not to PM it's nuts. I also seem to recall they just started to match online pricing not to long ago but that is a new thing so yeah I'll get the graphics card online as far as I know they just started to match online pricing.
I do know to just close up shop without warning the workers is just outright BS and should be illegal.
Now zellers how they stayed open so many years is is beyond me as their prices are god awful. Hell even the stores closing have prices where I can get the stuff other places for cheaper.
Oh man barrie south end is gone my buddy worked there. |
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Peterborough, ON | said by TOPDAWG: I do know to just close up shop without warning the workers is just outright BS and should be illegal. Obviously a decision made at a corporate level where all the real douche bags in society congregate at the water cooler when not on the golf course. |
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North York, ON | said by peterboro:said by TOPDAWG: I do know to just close up shop without warning the workers is just outright BS and should be illegal. Obviously a decision made at a corporate level where all the real douche bags in society congregate at the water cooler when not on the golf course. You would probably be surprised. Back when I worked for a mall based electronics retailer that has a different name now, people higher up were some of the hardest working people I have ever seen. I worked directly with district managers and a regional manager (at the time he reported to the President and CEO). If they worked less than 45 hours it was odd. The regional manager, later made VP of sales, he was in early by 8 and never left before 7, often later. I also had a lot of exposure to those higher at head office and it was much the same, a lot of people working hard long hours. This was not universal, there were those that did not. Most of the people in the sales and merchandising side of things worked a lot.
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Peterborough, ON | said by donoreo: You would probably be surprised. Back when I worked for a mall based electronics retailer that has a different name now, people higher up were some of the hardest working people I have ever seen. I worked directly with district managers and a regional manager (at the time he reported to the President and CEO). If they worked less than 45 hours it was odd. The regional manager, later made VP of sales, he was in early by 8 and never left before 7, often later. I also had a lot of exposure to those higher at head office and it was much the same, a lot of people working hard long hours. This was not universal, there were those that did not. Most of the people in the sales and merchandising side of things worked a lot.
Lots of people at the top of the food chain who work hard are douche bags. It just allows them to do more damage to the fabric of society if they put more hours in that's all. |
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Its no wonder they (FS & BB) went out of business. 
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London, ON | they haven't gone out of business...and i'm not sure of what FS/BB's return policy is on big screens, but when i worked in the business in the 90s, those things were final sale...it didn't take a genius to figure out a patter of 200 big screen sales on Friday and 199 returned on Monday...making them final sale saved the company a fortune. |
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kudos:1 | said by dirtyjeffer:they haven't gone out of business...
...Yet.
Remember Adventure Electronics? Atlantic Electronics? Both big box consumer electronics stores that went bust, one replacing the other.
FS/BB's days may be numbered.
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TLS2000Crazy CanuckPremium
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Mississauga, ON | I remember Majestic Electronics with their idiotic "If you find a lower price ANYWHERE, it's FREE!" policy. That didn't work out well for them.
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said by cpsycho:said by vue666:I hate to hear about people losing their jobs.... I guess folks prefer to shop online at Newegg, NCIX, TigerDirect, etc....
When a video card of the same make and model is $75 at newegg and $275 at Future Shop, where would you buy it? +1
They are playing in a market which they have become to irrelevant and are just getting by through a process of ripping people off on year's old hardware at current day prices. That model was bound to fail sooner or later.
I regularly use NewEgg and NCIX. Just recently I stepped into a BB for the first time in years and didn't actually buy anything as the item I wanted wasn't in stock even though their website claimed it was... |
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| That's always been the case though, Future Shop hardware was always 200% more than the PC shops and from the looks of it, it rarely went off the shelves... and that goes back to the 90's. |
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Not to defend them, but it's not as easy as an NCIX or Newegg.
Those two sell "parts" , that you put together yourself, so it's not difficult to get bleeding edge equipment.
FS and BB are Box pushers, they buy up truckloads of PC's that are outdated 5 minutes after they hit the store shelves.
Same thing happened during my Shack Days. Lead time on new computers (and the industry didn't move anywhere as fast back then) was 6 months, so deciding to buy(have Tandy Build?)a computer 6 months in advance at a current price point doesn't work and it outdated and overpriced by the time it hits the stores.
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