Best part is.... my store gets mentioned.... lol
At another Best Buy in Sunnyvale, for instance, the music MP3 players on display were in good working order, and a patron could test the controls and use headphones to listen to them. By contrast, the Palo Alto Circuit City's portable players -- with the exception of a separate display for Microsoft Corp.'s Zune player -- were not powered and lacked headphones so a shopper couldn't get a good test run of the devices. Product information placards were also missing from some models.
"I like how it's easier to find things (at Best Buy), and it's cool when you walk in and they greet you," Dustin Durham said outside the store, clutching a new projector. Durham used to shop at a Circuit City when he lived in Kentucky but moved a year ago to the San Francisco Bay Area where both stores geographically compete neck-in-neck. He hasn't been back to a Circuit City since because he said the store just felt "like a maze."
Devoe, who bypassed Circuit City in his search for a computer monitor this week, first tried the local Costco, then a Fry's electronics store and finally Best Buy, where he admittedly was pleasantly surprised with its selection and knowledgeable staff.
At Costco, displays weren't powered on, and at Fry's, he couldn't adjust the display resolutions. But at Best Buy, he was sold on a 24-inch, $700 display after he was able to actually compare and adjust the resolutions of various models.
Personally... I am surprised that our stuff works and our staff is knowledgeable... hahahahaIn some cases, it just comes down to location. With more than 800 Best Buy stores in the U.S., compared with Circuit City's 650, Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy Co. Inc. has an upper hand at the moment.
"I don't have anything against Circuit City, but this one is just closer to me," Daisy Zhao said, as she stepped out of a Best Buy with a new digital camcorder.
It was just a one-mile difference from the next closest Circuit City -- where Zhao said she used to shop before the Best Buy opened in her Sunnyvale neighborhood about three years ago. Since then, the homemaker has bought a DVD recorder, a DVD player, a small, flat-panel TV and some other computer accessories from Best Buy.
mmmm... more like a year and a half.... good try though... And yes... buy more accessories! Lord knows we need to sell more of those... *sigh*
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