Best Buy makes me feel like a criminal...

[ZeroEffect]

every time i leave that store after making a purchase, that
stupid alarm by the door goes off. Security boy comes strolling
over to look in my bag to see all the stolen stuff that the
person at the cash register missed me stuffing in there, or
all the stuff i picked up and stashed on the 3 whole feet i just
walked to the door. It's usually because they have those sensors
stuck inside the DVD packaging that never get deactivated!!!!!
It makes me not want to make purchases from them because this
happens every F-ing time. Plus since they've totally screwed up
the DVD racks by mixing in VHS tapes and catagorizing everything,
the store is really going down hill...
AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[GoldenGuppy]

ZeroEffect - I don't think you should feel like a criminal, you legally bought the DVDs

It is just that Best Buy sometimes have these problems with their alarms/sensors and it is just standare proceedure for the security man to check you up (if he doesn't then he wouldn't be doing his job properly).
Usually, when this happens, I just stop and ask them what's wrong and they never really give me a hard time and they just end up apologizing and it is responded w/ , "No problem" from me

You shouldn't act annoyed when this happens because it just causes a scene, just go w/ the flow and understand that this sort of thing happens. If they didn't do this all the time, there might be a time when it's a theif and they wouldn't catch him

><GG>

 

[Fastball]

same thing happens to me at Best Buy quite frequently. Aside from this, they're still a bunch of idiots. They make Fry's employees look like rocket scientists.

 

[MrCodeDude]

That's why I like Fry's. They have someone half-assed checks the reciept. I swear, I could have a ton of stolen stuff in the bag and Fry's would just initial my reciept.
-- mrcodedude

 

[Jfur]

I have that happen at Borders all the time. Now, when I get near the sensor, I wildly swing my bag at it. The if it goes off they won't try another cavity search I agree that the way they handle it is really disrespectful. It's as though they KNOW you are a thief, when the reality is that they are too lame to make their systems work properly. I used to work in undercover store security, and I would never do that to a customer.

Just remember, most of those security guys are there becasue the police force rejected them and they want some way to have authority

 

[gopunk]

hmm, i've had the sensors go off on me before. they just waved me off... i thought it was weird.

 

[StageLeft]

Some stores have no respect for customers. I know that they're protecting themselves but take my mother for instance: Been working at the same office for 10 years which is attached to this mall. Its a fairly small mall and she always goes around looking professional with her briefcase with confidential files in it. A few months back a security guard asked her to leave her bag behind when she went into Candian tire (hardware store). She said no and he said that she would have to. She said she had confidential files she is responsible for and it wasn't going to happen and finally she turned around and left.

I can understand telling a 16 year old with a big back pack with his moron friends getting asked to leave his bag there but this was quite silly and she felt like complaining to management because all it served to do was iritate and cause loss of a sale for the store.

 

[bcterps]

Whenever a sensor goes off when I leave a store, I just keep walking, I cant be bothered to go back to the counter. Its the stupid stores own damn fault, they can run after me like an idiot if they are so inclined. I havent been stopped once.

--Ben

 

[Ausm]

I hate worstbuy because those sales prick chase me around trying to get me to signup to MSN


Ausm

 

[vektor]

Next time just start runnin an when security tackles you sue em'.

 

[Jfur]

<< Some stores have no respect for customers. I know that they're protecting themselves but take my mother for instance: Been working at the same office for 10 years which is attached to this mall. Its a fairly small mall and she always goes around looking professional with her briefcase with confidential files in it. A few months back a security guard asked her to leave her bag behind when she went into Candian tire (hardware store). She said no and he said that she would have to. She said she had confidential files she is responsible for and it wasn't going to happen and finally she turned around and left.

I can understand telling a 16 year old with a big back pack with his moron friends getting asked to leave his bag there but this was quite silly and she felt like complaining to management because all it served to do was iritate and cause loss of a sale for the store. >>



Not to mention, those bag checks are a prime source for rip-offs. I never leave a bag willingly -- however large it is, I tell them it's a PURSE There's no way in he[[ I'm going to leave my laptop with Tower employees...

 

[Dually]

The manufactor puts them in not Best Buy. Its no big deal.

 

[ZeroEffect]

bottom line is i don't like being looked at as a thief.
i don't like being accused of something i haven't done.
they can take their freaking sensors and buzzers and
video cams, etc. etc. etc. and shove 'em! On line shopping
looks better and better all the time, even if i have to
give up paying a premium for instant gratification!!!
Being that that's about all actually getting off my a55
to go to some store is offering me now... sure isn't the
$$$ they're charging.