Meatwad's experience at Best Buy

[JB88]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
Having worked for best buy as a teenager I can tell you this (I'm sure this is true of most corporate retail) that the local stores do not dictate the sales and often you get an item on sale that you only have a few of in stock.  It's quite frustraiting for the staff as well as the customers.

i have also had the pleasure of sales people trying to dupe me into thinking that they are out of something because they are holding it for themselves.

that chaps my butt.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by sluggish
It's the old bait and switch.  They advertise something at a ridiculously low price and only have three in stock.  When they run out two minutes after unlocking the doors the salesperson is more than happy to point you towards a more expensive alterative.

Perhaps you misunderstood me.  It's frustrating to a sales person to explain to the customer(S) over and over again all weekend long that the store itself doesnt set the ad items and that when the ad came out the store was allread low stocked on it.  Usually we tried to accomidate customers by offering something better at a reduced price.

[sluggish]

It seems you worked at a very odd Best Buy.  It's a well established and documented fact that the the bait and switch is a common tactic in retail.  It has gotten so bad that it is a law in Michigan that a retailer must list the quantity in stock of a sale item.  It's usually in a lower corner in fine print in the ad and says something like "Limit three per store."

[JB88]

rainchecks are good things.

[Meatwad]

BB is a solid hour drive from here. Either I was getting me an X52 or I was going to get me an X52

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by sluggish
It seems you worked at a very odd Best Buy.  It's a well established and documented fact that the the bait and switch is a common tactic in retail.  It has gotten so bad that it is a law in Michigan that a retailer must list the quantity in stock of a sale item.  It's usually in a lower corner in fine print in the ad and says something like "Limit three per store."

You try telling 50 -100 people that they can't get the new (insert product name here) on sale for 3 days strait because they are sold out.  See how much you like "bait and switch" again the sales people hate it.

[JB88]

i'd have to agree with gunslinger.  though, it could be an ansillary tactic unspoken by those who set it in motion in the first place.  

"hey lets have a sale on this."

"but there arent that many in stock."

"exactly, lets get rid of them and push the new stuff."

"k."

"k.  I'll call marketing"

[rpm]

Originally posted by JB88
i'd have to agree with gunslinger.  though, it could be an ansillary tactic unspoken by those who set it in motion in the first place.  

"hey lets have a sale on this."

"but there arent that many in stock."

"exactly, lets get rid of them and push the new stuff."

"k."

"k.  I'll call marketing"

LOL that's my daily existence. Having sales of items I don't stock shoved down my throat. My store is 1/2 the size of the home store, but the home store sets the sale. Do you have any idea how many times a day I hear "It's in your ad!" ?

[DiabloTX]

88, you give Corporate Retail wayyy too much credit.  This kind of thing happens,  you can't remove all the sales tags from the previous weeks sale.  Again, I had to deal with it at the OD, it was our Sunday-morning-before-store-opens ritual and ther were some tags that got missed regularly.  They hire some real geniuses at the corporate level...and I ain't kidding.

[B@tfinkV]

Originally posted by FBplmmr
Life is weird...\
yesterday, when I was at Best Buy putting up fake sale signs, some punk from the Olive Garden stold my satellite dish!:huh

[RAIDER14]

Originally posted by storch
I was going to say, where on earth do you live that you consider the olive garden a fancy restaurant?

[rpm]

Here's a little gem of a problem I deal with daily. Our prices are downloaded into my database from the homestore. Anything they send overrides local. The scanning coordinator at the homestore is a young girl who doesn't know what she is doing, is lazy and has an attitude. Her downloads are full of errors. My scanning coordinator has 20 years experience, is hard working and frustrated because she spends 30% of her time chasing down and correcting the mistakes only to have all her work overridden on the next bad d/l.

[DiabloTX]

Like I said...corporate geniuses.

[JB88]

Originally posted by DiabloTX
88, you give Corporate Retail wayyy too much credit.  This kind of thing happens,  you can't remove all the sales tags from the previous weeks sale.  Again, I had to deal with it at the OD, it was our Sunday-morning-before-store-opens ritual and ther were some tags that got missed regularly.  They hire some real geniuses at the corporate level...and I ain't kidding.

in my experience, it's probably a bit of both.

glad to see your old avitard.  less (insert flash bulb popping here) than that new fangledy one.

[Gunslinger]

Well I'm glad RPM agrees with me that it's not the guy on the floor trying to earn a meager living that wants the "bait and switch"  It is a PITA, to calm people down and explain the situation when they just assume it's you personally that's out to screw them.