Best Buy and ageism?

[Deja Q]

Apart from the security dude, every worker at Best Buy is like, 20, dude...

Add in their 12 pages of personal questions, one of which directly asks if you've seriously considered dropping out of high school, and my eyebrows have perked up.

Stop shopping there folks.

[lpbk2713]

1. It's just another McJob.

I don't think anyone there is "career oriented" anyhow.

[Deja Q]

3. That's besides the point. Besides,

people older than 20 need to LIVE. The kiddies can stay home with mommy and daddy.

Best Buy is just catering to get more of the youthful market segment.

And given how dim half their employees seem to be, Best Buy doesn't care about KNOWLEDGEABLE staff to help out customers.

If Best Buy is an example of America to be... you get my drift.

[Liberal Veteran]

6. Amen....do you research before going to one of those stores...

...because I have heard some of the dumbest shit come out of the worker's mouths. I had one person assure me a computer had an AGP slot and not onboard video and I made him open the case to see and sure enough, no AGP slot (I ended up building my own again)...gay geeky computer nerd that I am. I wired my house with CAT5 cable for networking throughout the house 5 years ago.

[LastKnight]

2. it could be...

that most there are young just because more young people are interested in such things as elecronics, video games, computers, ect. that and i dont imagine it pays well (not like my dinkly little pt music store thing does, either) so i bet thier turnover is high. that and what cheaper, more dispensable hires can you get than broke high school and college students

-LK

[SmileyBoy]

4. OK, so what do I NOT boycott???

Seriously, this is getting ridiculous folks. Boycotting a business for not sharing our EXACT world-view. Well BOO-HOO-HOO. If you don't like a place, don't shop there. Now as for me, I like their lower prices on DVDs and computer games and software. I like that at least most of their staff are knowledgeable in helping me. I like the fact that they help increase the business for the adjacent large shopping center here in town (West Acres), and a part of the revenues from the mall goes to the city's coffers. I'm not boycotting a business because they don't share 100 percent of my values.

This isn't like boycotting Wal- Mart, who uses overseas slave labour, commits racketeering with their vendors, destroys the downtowns of thousands of towns in the US, has stores that are an abomination to the name of architecture, and pays unfair, non-union wages to its employees and breaks labour laws around them, and is directly contributing to the downfall of American society.

Oh, Best buy is ageist. BOYCOTT THEM!!!

[Systematic Chaos]

5. I used to LOVE Best Buy in the early 90's...

but now I don't care for them nearly as much. Their CD selection has really gone downhill and in many areas their product selections aren't too great. Also, unlike The Good Guys or many other major retailers, the car stereo installation people with Best Buy can't do ANY custom installation work on your car. You get exactly what you pay for, hooked up exactly where it's supposed to go and that's it. Not very impressive to me.

[LTR]

7. Best Buy has become pretty annoying

Almost cult-like.

Too much hooting and hollering and bell-ringing. Almost creepy. Everything seems memorized from scripts.

Only younger folk would put up with this crap. Us old folks (I'm 35) are too smart to want to act like this every day.

Too bad the selection at Circuit City kinda sucks.