Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon

Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by portaljester on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:36PM (#17568643)

I was gifted a 25$ Best buy gift card, I thought I would never remember to use it. One day the lady is looking at makeup and I see a Best buy. I go in looking for a new mousepad. The place is full of washers and blenders etc. The only mouse pad they had was 60$ (extreme gaming blah blah). I ended up grabbing a Pink Floyd vinyl for 22$. I found it odd but if it works it works.

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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by beenBoutIT on Thursday July 19, 2018 @02:37PM (#17569149)

Buying someone a gift card is another way of telling them that you're a consumerist idiot who doesn't give a shit about them. "First and foremost, I don't care about you at all. That said, instead of giving you $20 in cash, I'm going to give that same $20 to BestBuy and force you to shop there or forgo my gift in its entirety, because I'm an imbecile." Intelligent people who don't give a shit about a person will always go cash.

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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by ryneandal on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:27PM (#17569501)

I'm truly glad I don't see the world in such drastic black and white. Sounds miserable.

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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by beenBoutIT on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:56PM (#17570692)

Do you know of someone who migrated from binary black and white to whatever schema it is that you use to judge others?

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