Best buy became worst buy
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2024
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Guess they won’t become “Best Bi” anytime soon?
One of the causes the NCPPR cited was transgender care for minors, which the group falsely described as an attempt to “mutilate the reproductive organs of children.”
Why do these right wing freaks have such a fixation on children's genitals? Nobody is performing bottom surgery on kids. Plenty of trans adults don't even go for bottom surgery, and never will.
Because they argue in bad faith, always. They don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves, and even then they vote against their own self interest.
Also, Dude, freaks is not the preferred nomenclature; Fascists, please. That was very un-dude-like.
The answer is implied in the question.
It's clear Best Buy is dying anyway. There's not many of them around and it's usually a ghost town when I go in one twice a year.
Best Buy is great when you need something right now. Like when a hard drive in your RAID dies and you need a hard drive right fucking now.
Buy yeah. I've only gone maybe once in the last five years.
Fortunately we have a Microcenter to solve the "shit I can't wait for". And this is in Best Buy's back yard.
Unfortunately, Microcenter has yet to enter the Pacific Northwest, so I can't go to one. The nearest one is in southern California, fourteen hours away.
Are you sure? I remember reading about one near Seattle shutting down around 10 years ago.
I'm sure. I even checked their site before I posted.
I was thinking of Fry's
The last of those shut down about three days before I decided to give them a call and ask what their GPU inventory looked like. I was really disappointed.
They never have anything in stock. I've honestly never had luck with things like that
Lol last time I went to best buy for that they were out of stock despite their website saying otherwise.
I think the only thing I've bought from them in the last decade were some external hard drives, which I shucked and threw in my NAS
Had the same thing happen with a keyboard. My work one stopped working, was going to buy the basic wireless one on the website. “We are out, but we do have these $200+ dollar gaming RGB keyboards”
Yeah, can’t expense that. Thanks.
I don't know, man. I recently had a drive die on me and I was able to order it online from my local Walmart, drive over there and park my car, text them and have them bring it out to the car for me. I didn't have to deal with Best Buy or any obnoxious salespeople and I'm guessing I paid a similar premium for not shopping around online instead.
I am upset that I can't boycott a company that I haven't done business with in well over a decade.
Edit: never mind they have a live chat where I can let them know
They do have a free electronics recycling program. That came in handy when a member of my household was going through mental health issues.
I kinda wish I had cause to shop there so I could very vocally share how this is losing them customers, but I haven’t needed to set foot in one of their stores for years now.
They basically exist at this point to prey on people who aren't technologically savvy enough to realize they're being screwed over.
Glad I wasn't going to Best Buy anymore anyways.
This feels like a quick way to get branded as a workplace hostile to LGBTQ employees.
Welp, glad my plans to shop there were for tomorrow so plenty of time not to go there at all.
"non partisan" and "free market conservative" are incompatible with each other
"We believe in an unregulated free market and we are against LGBT people and equality and we're all going to vote for Trump, but we aren't Republicans!"
They want the free market but that's about the only freedom they care about. The freedom to allow exorbitant amounts of money to buy whatever they want. Laws and policies, people, rights to resources we all rely on to survive, the ability to bypass other freedoms...Everything on the table for a price.
"Our side simply wants to give a voice to simple longheld real American values, your side is pushing an evil agenda!"
As is “free market” and “conservative.”
“Conservative” and “Think”….
There's at least some tension between "free" and "markets" imo
As is "free market conservative" and "think tank".
I'm starting to see a pattern here
Just like in the 90's with Focus on the Family and bullshit like that, the conservatives relied on whipping up the rage in a small number of their constituents. Just enough constituents to write letters to people and make them uncomfortable. Just like back then, these fucking pussies in positions of power are capitulating to small groups of people because they're scared shitless of how violent these unhinged freaks are.
They were never the Moral Majority, they were always the Loud Violent Unethical Grasping Only For Power Minority.