Best Buy

BB overall is a tanking company and should be obsolete in the next few years. Only went here bc I had a GC that was burning a hole in my pocket. Not a ton of great deals, store was dead per usual and I don’t see any reason to come back. It was like stepping back in time walking in there.

Couldn’t be more happy. I had a planned project to build my own media room. The salesman in the Magnolia department recommended a in-​home consultation.
The consultant exceeded every expectation from designing my system within 24 hours, to having my wants and needs well represented. I purchased the next day.
When in doubt about a home audio /​video situation, get a consultation.

The old Best Buy was horrible. Bad lot, bad building, bad service.
The new one… (much) better parking lot, nice looking building, but … the same old service.
Crossing Hwy 100 is a rough challenge at any point, but at least they’re now conveniently located at a light with a good sized parking lot.
Visited here to find a hard drive one day, showed as available and in stock on the web site at this store. Employees were completely unhelpful. One indicated that it would be out on the shelves. So I spend time looking for it. It wasn’t — not even a spot for it. Ask another. He does a stock check, sees it in stock, and. says to look on the shelves. Apparently too busy doing other stuff. It doesn’t help that the shelves are rather disorganized and it isn’t easy to determine where they’re supposed to be, but again, look through the shelves, not finding a spot for it. Ask again, noting that it’s supposedly in stock but that I’ve looked twice and haven’t found it. Get shrugged off, «well, maybe we’re out of it.»
Get ticked off and leave. Later: it’s still listed as in-​stock by the website.
Best Buy can be a good source or it can be very frustrating. I’ve never really had good luck at this store, whether in its old incarnation or this one, and I think I’ll be visiting other stores in the future.