Best Buy incidental visit, yesterday...

[beergears]

Went by a Best Buy yesterday and decided to check in, looking for an odd vaccum bag style.

Wow, looked like preparation for war in there, pallets upon pallets going to the front lines!

We are going to collapse under the load of consumer goods, one of these days.
All this just for fookin' televisions, mostly, which just happen to be the very vehicle used to push for more consumption and for the leverage of shallow idols...
What would Darwin say?

Funny; I need a smallish radio/CD combo for one of the bedrooms.... found THREE units on display in a tiny corner area (think large janitorial closet), behind a wall of whatever-biggish boxes.

Darn, I wrote that in the wrong sub-forum..1

 

[Jenks829]

We are going to collapse under the load of consumer goods, one of these days.

Inevitable.....the question will be will we fail, stagger and rebuild as in the fall of Rome/Egypt/Babylon to Dark Ages or will we have played our last hand and leave only fossils and unexplained nick nacks?

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But you are STILL buying a Radio/CD for the bedroom and,


What was their price on the 92" Plasmas?

 

[Urban]

Ever read Jacobs Dark Age Ahead? She paints a bleak picture.

 

[imaguitargod]

Comsumerism sickens me. BUY BUY BUY! THIS IS YOU GOD! BUY! (anyone ever see "They Live"?). Why would you go to Worst Buy anyways? Support local.

Another sickening thing large chains like that do is demand you show you recipt upon leaving and you'll get a hastle if you don't even though it's your legal right not to. Loads of reading to be had on that subject alone if one was so bored and interested in their rights.

Alas, I'm ranting and need another Hoppin' Frog Double IPA reload. Off to the batfridge! Dananana naaa!!!!

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

What kills me is their advertising methods. You know, when they ask for your address at check out.

I always decline and the cashiers always stumble on how to proceed from there.

 

[imaguitargod]

What kills me is their advertising methods. You know, when they ask for your address at check out.

I always decline and the cashiers always stumble on how to proceed from there.

That's always fun! I had to return something to Rat Shack (Radio Shack) (note, I almost never hsop there but had to becaus eI was in a pinch, of corse the junk didn't work so I had to return it). They demanded my name, address, and phone number.

There was no statement that this was a requirement when I went into the store nor was it on the recipt which is in consumar rights laws that they need to do this. I still had my Los Angeles drivers license so I gave them that (old address). But the problem came when they wanted my phone number.

I don't own a phone line, cell phone, or have a pay phone so I said "I don't have a phone number". After consulting her manager the attitude indowed youngster said they still need one and dont' care if I don't have one. I told her to type in the stores phone number. That didn't work. Still wanted a phone number. How can I give you a phone number that I don't have? She didn't care. So I gave her a random Los Angeles phone number that popped into my head and got my money.

This isn't the only place that I have fun with. Appearently having no phone number can muck up alot of people's thought processes. I also don't give out my social security number, that REALLY screw with people.