Maybe, but over the last few years I've taken to checking Best Buy's web site in preference to Amazon's for things that seem like they're in the general categor

Maybe, but over the last few years I've taken to checking Best Buy's web site in preference to Amazon's for things that seem like they're in the general category of "things Best Buy probably sells." They're usually competitively priced, and occasionally have even undercut Amazon. (This is especially true if you're looking for brands you've even remotely heard of, as opposed to ICEDIO, ORNARTO, JASBON, COOLQO, WTYOO, SINIANL and the like. All of those names are real "companies" on Amazon at the moment, by the way.) And, Best Buy offers something else Amazon doesn't: local stores. I can order something and go pick it up. I think Best Buy survives in no small part because (a) despite all the jokes about the way they used to upsell overpriced printer cables, they've often had a pretty good selection and decent salespeople, and (b) they managed to adapt to the online world in time to save themselves, which Radio Shack -- and, somewhat incredibly, Silicon Valley megastore darling Fry's -- manifestly did not.