Best Buy to close 50 big-box stores, sets 'transformation' plan

There goes my employment opportunities lmao

I miss circuit city, it was huge! I'd go there every so often and just browse . Wow they are gonna do price matching??? I doubt it. Best buys existence doesn't really hurt me any and its nice to check out the show case or get a quick cord or something. But I feel like its preying on people like my dad...

@guest thats a lie newegg and amazon hire people in the usa. Best buy is a rip off. Maybe we should all work with one hand to create more jobs?

edit cant believe someone came to techspot and tried to fear monger us into buying BB, probably a BB rep or fox news zombie

What I can't stand about BB is the blaring music as soon as you walk in! Can't hear myself think in there! And their sales people are a joke! They have NO idea what they're talking about. The last time I was in BB was to buy a memory card for my camera because it was the cheapest place at the time, and I needed it NOW. Otherwise, I do all my computer shopping at Memory Express here in Calgary.

Best Buy =Best Lie. High prices, uninformed sales staff. *hitty return policy. And oh yeah they think they can sell you a piece of paper for big bucks and claim it is a warranty. Then if your equipment does break they try their best to weasel out of the contract. And they want to try and charge you $100 for hdmi cables that you can get on line for less than $10. What goes around comes around. Screw the customer long enough and people will eventually wake up. All I can say for Best Buy is Good Bye.

"The giant consumer electronics retailer has seen sales erode as an increasing number of customers use its stores as a "showroom" while turning to lower-priced e-tailers for their actual purchases."

And still they don't cut the costs. *****s.

I miss Circuit City as well, one was a few minutes drive from here and I went there to try out peripherals before I bought them.

Once CC closed, that was it, I've had to blind buy things since then. Result? I haven't bought any peripherals since then! (My mouse is so worn my skill in FPS/RTS has deteriorated)

The closest best buy is 35 minutes away. I have to make an hour trip JUST to try out something before I buy it online, and now what? They're potentially going to close down the store near me and I won't have anywhere to go! Even if they don't, if they're going to change the products they're selling to be mobile based, then there really is no hope for me except buying blindly.

Sad days. Why is Microcenter and NCIX not more widespread? They are actually reasonable with pricing. (In fact, there's a ton of Microcenter deals all the time and the closest one is over an hour away in a bad town. *sigh*)