Paul Ratazzi wrote:
> 45 minutes later, after being escorted like a criminal through the checkout
> line, I was back down to the car install bay.
This is why my first purchase from Best Buys (sic) is also my last.
Impulse bought a MD player for the wifey. After waiting for the
greasy, spike-haired kid to get through chatting with his friends,
he deigned to give me enough time to retrieve the (wrong) box from
the locked cabinet. We were escorted from one end of the store to
the other to the checkout line. I never got to touch the box. Only
at the cash register when the price rung up wrong did I know that
he'd picked out the wrong box. So then we wait, holding up the
line, while this clown again breaks off from his chatting long
enough to get the correct unit. We then were escorted out of the
store.
Never again!
I had wal-mart try the same stunt a few days later when I went to
buy a Mavica digital camera. This time I demanded to see the store
manager. After working through several underlings, I finally got to
talk to someone who claimed to be the store manager. I asked this
guy whether he had ever had even the remotest suspicion of my having
stolen anything. Of course not. I told him that I refused to be
tarred by the sins of my (non) brothers and that since I had never
come under suspicion, that I would either take my camera of the
shelf and put it in my cart or I'd manage to live without Wal-mart
products. I left empty-handed. In this little podunk town, it's
almost impossible to completely boycott wallyworld but I'm coming as
close as possible.
What really pisses me about this is that I had a nice chat awhile
back with the head of security for our wallyworld store while we
were both waiting in court to prosecute bad check writers. He told
me that they estimate that over 90% of their shrinkage (aka theft)
is caused by employees. I suspect that this figure is not only
accurate but that it also applies to other chain stores. Doesn't
leave much room for use customers to steal, now does it?
I've become a hard-ass on this topic. I tolerated being watched by
CCTV. I tolerated the anti-theft tags and the occasional false
alarm. I'll be damned if I'll tolerate being escorted through a
store like a common shoplifter in order to make a purchase. Long
ago I quit shopping Circuit City because they pulled similar crap in
making one go to "customer pickup" to get even the smallest item.
Apparently many people got pissed cuz our local store no longer does
that except for major items. I shop there but I don't buy :-)
Thank God for the Internet.
I urge everyone on this list to become a hardass too. If we keep
tolerating this kind of treatment, pretty soon we'll have to be
handcuffed to a store employee (whose pockets will be full of
merchandise) in order to buy a pack of minidiscs. Just say NO to
this kind of crap.
I feel better now.
>
> I also learned some things along the way: 1. Avoid Best Buy whenever
> possible - they are evil; 2. Don't let someone you don't know do stuff to a
> car you care about - even if it is 'free';
Bingo. Who cares more about your property - you or some kid just
putting in his hours.
John
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Cleveland, TN
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