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Originally Posted by CoryB
The appliances are a fixture that will remain at the Pembina Best Buy. The trend of their stores has actually been to smaller footprints where possible. You don't need to warehouse a large volume of big CRT tv sets anymore, instead of have a very lean stock of flat panels with most models "shipping free to home" from a central warehouse. They have also found the revenue per square foot is far better on smaller, more consumable goods (ie Fitbits and headphones).
In terms of staff, the change will be a slow one as they all need to be retrained in the Best Buy way. Some will likely leave for other commission sales jobs. End of the day though I would not have high hopes across the board.
My recent experience with a Best Buy (not in Winnipeg) was I needed a specific cable. I checked their website before going to the store and saw it was in stock. When I arrived at the store an associate offered to help. I told them what I was looking for and they immediately suggested an Apple branded cable. I was looking for the same product without the branding for a far cheaper price. They took me to the non-Apple cable section, looked and gave up saying the web site was wrong. Leaving me there I decided to look a little further. I took a couple steps over to the "Apple" section and what do you know there is the "out of stock" cable I am looking for and they have about 10 of them on the shelf.
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That's a huge pet peeve of mine too. I ALWAYS look online first and when it says in stock, I expect it to be in stock. I argued with a Future Shop employee once who told me they didnt have what I was looking for and when I said the website says you do they said the same thing - website is never right. When I tweeted about it, the reply from corporate was "use our in store reservation system". Ridiculous.
I cant imagine buying anything from Future Shop that costs more than $100 or so. I bought my TV from Visions. But even then, when I went back to buy a Blu Ray player, the guy tried to convince me I needed $140 HDMI cables. That makes me leave a store. I can appreciate a good hustle but why lose a sale over it.
I did notice Visions Pembina has a sign out hiring all positions. Coincedence or wanting to recruit some Future Shop employees?