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Best Buy using Soviet tactics for GA Sales Tax Holiday

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Walked into the Best Buy in Alpharetta, GA today to pick up a mouse and a NIC for my wife's PC that I built her (forgot I gave those parts to her little brother) and was surprised to see that Best Buy had completely blocked off the computer department. There was only one entrance to get in and you had to stand in line, take a number, and wait to be called. I couldn't so much as go pick out a mouse without having to stand in line and wait for my number to be called.

That has to be one of the most Bass Ackwards way of doing things. I just rolled my eyes, walked out the door, and drove down the street to CompUSA.
 
Office Max did that here not long ago when they were having a big "store wide going out of business sale." They roped off the computer area, the furniture area, and software area and you could not get in them. When I asked why they said it was because those items were to be moved to one of their other stores in town. WTF is that???
 
when I worked there...they didn't block off the whole section...they just took numbers for people buying computer systems
 
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That's really weird. Did you ask someone why they were doing that?
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Yeah, their reasoning was that they didn't want to have customers fighting for the attention of the people working in the computer department. I told him they could have just as easily done the number system for those wanting to buy PCs without blocking off the entire computer department. It at least gives those who are want to buy a PC an opportunity to browse around by themselves to get an idea of what they like instead of dragging a dept employee all over the place. Plus, you don't inconvience those like me who want to pick up something other than a PC.

He just kind of shrugged his shoulders and basically said this was how they were told to handle the Sales Tax holiday.
 
The local Best Buy did the same thing during the last Pennsylvania tax-free computer week. Fortunately I was there looking for vacuum cleaner bags, so I did not have to worry about going into the computer area. Did they have they entire computer area roped off, or just the area where the actual computers were? The store here looked like they were just cordoning off the area with the actual computers and laptops. If you were looking for peripherals/video cards/hard drives and the like you could just walk into the aisle.

The other stupid thing they did was rope off the cash registers. This annoyed me to no end. You had to walk through a snake of ropes to get to the counters, then had to wait until the pimply-faced youth directed you to a register. And the little jerk directed me to a register that wasn't ready for another customer and at least 3 people in line before me ended up getting out of the store before me.
 


<< Office Max did that here not long ago when they were having a big "store wide going out of business sale." They roped off the computer area, the furniture area, and software area and you could not get in them. When I asked why they said it was because those items were to be moved to one of their other stores in town. WTF is that??? >>



Well that's because they're not selling that merchandise, since they're carting it off to other stores, which is legitimate. This is a blatant effort to block people from buying stuff during the sales tax holiday, or so it seems.
 
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Did they have they entire computer area roped off, or just the area where the actual computers were?
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They had all but two aisles blocked off with computer boxes stacked two high. If you tried to go to the back side of the aisle, it was roped off. The two aisles that were not blocked off held video cards and CD-Rs. I couldn't figure out why they had the mice, joystick, and speaker aisle blocked off along with the other computer accessories.
 
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'Soviet tactics'?
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In the former Soviet Union you had to stand in line and take numbers for something as simple as bread because of the inefficiencies associated with Communism. I just used it as a colorful way to say I thought Best Buy's ropeing off the computer area because of the sales tax holiday was inefficient.
 


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'Soviet tactics'?
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In the former Soviet Union you had to stand in line and take numbers for something as simple as bread because of the inefficiencies associated with Communism. I just used it as a colorful way to say I thought Best Buy's ropeing off the computer area because of the sales tax holiday was inefficient. >>



we had that in the US too when war time rationing was going on.
 
"we had that in the US too when war time rationing was going on."

Well, yeah but that was during war. The USSR had that during peacetime (if you want to count the Cold War as peactime).
 


<< "we had that in the US too when war time rationing was going on."

Well, yeah but that was during war. The USSR had that during peacetime (if you want to count the Cold War as peactime). >>



it also happend during the great depression too, which was before ww2.
 


<< That has to be one of the most Bass Ackwards way of doing things. I just rolled my eyes, walked out the door, and drove down the street to CompUSA. >>


By the way, did you actually say "rolls eyes" out loud? 🙂

Could be an indication you're addicted to Trillian if you did 😉
 
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