Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by the_watcher on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:54AM
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All that said, if what you need is a cable to get your big-ticket item working right now, a lot of us will find the markup on the cheap, high-margin item well worth it.
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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by levesque on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:21PM
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You save time by getting it right now, so that's worth something.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by LeifCarrotson on Monday July 23, 2018 @10:41AM
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I'm not sure you save time: That round trip to the store might take an hour. Conversely, you could defer the task that needs that cable until the day after tomorrow, take 2 minutes to buy it on Amazon, and spend the next 48 hours on other stuff.
To me, the hour trip to go to the store is much more burdensome than 2 minutes on my computer plus 48 hours of doing everything else that I have in my life...I run my brain on a round-robin scheduling algorithm, and there are plenty of other tasks that can keep me busy while I wait for that interrupt to return!