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Are they just going to convert into another cellphone shop? Last time I was there they literally hid all the good games and dvds to reduce shrinkage but it also

Are they just going to convert into another cellphone shop? Last time I was there they literally hid all the good games and dvds to reduce shrinkage but it also made it appear like they were out of stock on everything. There wasn’t even a slip or something to know to ask the front desk for inventory.

nashashmi 3y ago
Yeah they seem to be more out of stock in stores on items. Customer service is terrible too. What’s their deal?
- userinanother 3y ago
  The future is sears and Kmart like death spiral
tivert 3y ago
> Are they just going to convert into another cellphone shop? I think they're planning to convert their stores into more of a "showroom" type experience that supports their online shopping. They converted at least half the floor-space of our local Best Buy into a warehouse/online order pickup area. IIRC, the guy manning one of the cell-phone displays was actually a Samsung employee.
- userinanother 3y ago
  The displays are all owned by the company’s whose product they sell. Like there is a Microsoft area an Apple area and Samsung etc. They are all owned and maintained by the vendor.
gremlinsinc 3y ago
I'm thinking more they're getting ready to liquidize. Brick and Mortar stores are empty AF, and failing left and right. People want to go back to the 1800's when you built a farm, and went to town once a month for supplies, and that's that. Everything is online, so why not. Walmart has the luxury of being somewhat essential having grocery departments, so they can keep foot traffic that way - but a lot more people get groceries via delivery as well. My family we're all pretty much -- if I see it, I want it, so I buy it regardless of if we should. Ordering delivery we buy a TON less junk food, and uneeded crap. We just order what we need, it also helps with our ADHD because we forget ingredients ALL the time when planning meals, so we just call and have the meal tomorrow instead of today, but that ends up being 5 days later, and then something we did buy for that meal goes bad and its a vicious cycle.
- ghaff 3y ago
  >Walmart has the luxury of being somewhat essential having grocery departments, so they can keep foot traffic that way - but a lot more people get groceries via delivery as well. The Walmart near me is always packed even though it's a lousy place IMO to try to do a full grocery shopping. I don't know the numbers but my sense is that online grocery shopping didn't take off and stay taken off to nearly the degree that some people thought it would. I certainly don't see that many pickers in my local stores that offer delivery.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  > Everything is online, so why not. Because that was the point of Best Buy - if I was going to buy something online, I'd just get it from Amazon|eBay|Newegg. The point of Best Buy is that it's a physical store that you can go to in order to see the physical object before you buy it, buy it immediately (zero shipping time), and also as a secondary but important angle since it's an actual store you completely skip the "market" where people try to sell you counterfeit flash drives.

nashashmi 3y ago

Yeah they seem to be more out of stock in stores on items. Customer service is terrible too. What’s their deal?

userinanother 3y ago
The future is sears and Kmart like death spiral

tivert 3y ago

> Are they just going to convert into another cellphone shop? I think they're planning to convert their stores into more of a "showroom" type experience that supports their online shopping. They converted at least half the floor-space of our local Best Buy into a warehouse/online order pickup area. IIRC, the guy manning one of the cell-phone displays was actually a Samsung employee.

userinanother 3y ago
The displays are all owned by the company’s whose product they sell. Like there is a Microsoft area an Apple area and Samsung etc. They are all owned and maintained by the vendor.

gremlinsinc 3y ago

I'm thinking more they're getting ready to liquidize. Brick and Mortar stores are empty AF, and failing left and right. People want to go back to the 1800's when you built a farm, and went to town once a month for supplies, and that's that. Everything is online, so why not. Walmart has the luxury of being somewhat essential having grocery departments, so they can keep foot traffic that way - but a lot more people get groceries via delivery as well. My family we're all pretty much -- if I see it, I want it, so I buy it regardless of if we should. Ordering delivery we buy a TON less junk food, and uneeded crap. We just order what we need, it also helps with our ADHD because we forget ingredients ALL the time when planning meals, so we just call and have the meal tomorrow instead of today, but that ends up being 5 days later, and then something we did buy for that meal goes bad and its a vicious cycle.

ghaff 3y ago
>Walmart has the luxury of being somewhat essential having grocery departments, so they can keep foot traffic that way - but a lot more people get groceries via delivery as well. The Walmart near me is always packed even though it's a lousy place IMO to try to do a full grocery shopping. I don't know the numbers but my sense is that online grocery shopping didn't take off and stay taken off to nearly the degree that some people thought it would. I certainly don't see that many pickers in my local stores that offer delivery.
yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
> Everything is online, so why not. Because that was the point of Best Buy - if I was going to buy something online, I'd just get it from Amazon|eBay|Newegg. The point of Best Buy is that it's a physical store that you can go to in order to see the physical object before you buy it, buy it immediately (zero shipping time), and also as a secondary but important angle since it's an actual store you completely skip the "market" where people try to sell you counterfeit flash drives.