chopyaedoff Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 I think it has to be slightly modified for us UK folk. Asda (Wal-Mart) vs Dixons (Best Buy) ------------------------ I'd say Asda (Wal-mart) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombolcha Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 wal-mart - evil/all of the above best buy - they have "stuff" but their employees are by far the dumbest people i have ever seen.. i don't know do they brainwash people when they're hired? examples.. me - where do you guys have two-way radios? bb - ummm... hmmm... we don't carry two-way radios.. me - walkie- talkie? bb - ummmm.. yes, right over there.. :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revvo Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 wal-mart - evil/all of the above best buy - they have "stuff" but their employees are by far the dumbest people i have ever seen.. i don't know do they brainwash people when they're hired? Actually they do. They don't just train to sell product service plans/Extended waranties.They do online trainings for specific companies that deal with BestBuy and when they complete them, they can sometimes get stuff at a discounted price. That's definitely a good thing I won't deny it but what happens is these companies do everything to make u think that their competitors suck. The major one is Intel that always goes to the bestbuy where my friend works and gives all this bogus information and benchmarks. If I worked at BestBuy, I'd be fired for wearing an AMD shirt, or not giving enough HIGH FIVES :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galley Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 It should be Wal-Mart vs. Target and their respective clientele. Wal-Mart = trailer trash (N) Target = hot babes and hot moms (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raum Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 I tend to avoid both of them. Wal-Mart has a ridiculous number of policies I am in conflict with, such as the complaints I've heard from people who work there about how they get dicked around and ****ed out of wages, very uninformed salesmen in my experiences, the fact that even after they've got you IN the actual store, they still throw advertisements at you every chance they get. Best-Buy does a lot of the same. Prettymuch any place I go to where I know what I want to buy and I try to buy it, but in the process I have people offer me more stuff I didn't come there for, I tend to avoid. It's a tactic that while I understand why they use it, I don't like it being used on me. The only thing I ever got at Best Buy were videogames, and now I either just don't buy games anymore or pick one up every now and then at a used CD shop I frequent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombolcha Posted December 24, 2005 Share Posted December 24, 2005 It should be Wal-Mart vs. Target and their respective clientele. Wal-Mart = trailer trash (N) Target = hot babes and hot moms (Y) indeed.. and its pronounced "Tar-zjay" :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valerus Posted December 25, 2005 Share Posted December 25, 2005 Best Buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blush Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 I don't like either to be honest. Wal-Mart decided to open a supercenter in the city last year, but I like their Sam's Club sector more. Shopping in Wal-Mart is hellish. Best Buy recently opened and I avoid going there like the plague because there really isn't anything there of my interest. I'd rather go to CompUSA to look at computers, etc. than Best Buy. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youm0nt Veteran Posted December 26, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 26, 2005 cant compared the two :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cvrt7.62Ghst Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 cant compared the two :no: No you can't, they are completly different stores. :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Seetheworldsecond Subscriber¹ Posted December 26, 2005 Subscriber¹ Share Posted December 26, 2005 This is really hard to choose, But I like way too many things in best buy and the lines are very fast So Im going to have to go with bestbuy! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buttus Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 yea, walmart isn't really well stocked in electronics like bestbuy, but wallmart has all the household stuff... cheaper DVD's at walmart tho.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amrinders87 Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 If they both have the same item, then I would go with WalMart because of better return policy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yisman Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 They're different kinds of stores. It depends on what I'm looking to buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNRambo Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 im never shopping at bestbuy again. I bought guildwars 4 days before the boxing day sale, at full price ($59.99), then 4 days later i see it is $29.99 so i went to go get a price adjustment and they said they dont do it for boxing day sales :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+.Aaron Subscriber¹ Posted December 28, 2005 Subscriber¹ Share Posted December 28, 2005 Best Buy b/c they sell more computer items than Walmart ever will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KXH Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 I look forward to your post when you aren't tired. Best Buy isn't exactly immune from many of the same complaints. :D OK I'll get into it. While Best Buy is the evil beast, mostly because of the Geek Squad, poor customer service/untrained employee's, and the whole different prices on their website than the B&M, they are not destroying the nation. Wal-Mart on the other hand is killing the country, whether intentionally or inadvertantly they are doing it, and whats worse they know it. :| Here is my for example: I work at a Fortune 10 company who sells many products to Wal-mart, without saying too much, i work for a division of said corporation that makes "your favorite" cookies and a host of other products you wouldn't even realize. We are in our own right an 800 pound gorilla in the business world. :yes: Wal-mart calls us up and says that they want to buy one full weeks worth of "America's Favorite Cookie" including all production runs for that week that are possible for a sale they want to have. Thats means they want as many of the cookies as we can make in 7 days times 3 production runs a day. Meaning that all employee's must be paid overtime to work the additional shifts. Then they also inform us that they will not be using our trucks to get the cookies, but will in fact send their own Wal-mart trucks to pick up the Cookies. Now due to union contracts the truckers must still be paid as if they worked. Then the beast Wal-mart also tells us that every cookie package must be pallet stacked in their way, not ours taking more time and employee's to get right because they won't accept delivery of the pallet if its not stacked by their demands. Then they also demand that every package of "America's Favorite Cookie" be some ridiculous 3 CM shorter, so that there has to be special packaging ordered. So now after all of this they tell us that they want to pay say $1.25 per bag of cookies, where it actually costs us $1.33 to produce that bag of cookies after everything is said and done. SO we have to take a loss on the cookies for that whole week and it becomes substantial when your buying millions of bags of cookies. Say No to Wal-mart you say? You can't, for some reason no one has any balls to say no to them because then they say, if you can't do this or won't do this then we will take sanctions against your company. We will not stock our shelves with any of your other baked products and move all your other non backed products to the lower shelves at the ends of the aisles (this is a very big deal in food retail). So youhave no choice but to comply with them. Unless we finally get a CEO that grows a set and says fine we are no longer selling to you, and does something where we market it as exclusively at your local grocer and Target or something. How does this truly effect our economy you ask? Well most of our employees are blue colar (labor) unionized employee's. Middle America type people who are just good hard working folks looking to make a decent living for their family and retire. They are thrifty, and usually shop at, hey you guessed it, Wal-Mart. They want to buy those cookies and stuff from wal-mart at those extremely low prices, but the $10 a year those people save on their cookies is costing them their own jobs. How? We have to close plants and move our production outside of the USA in order to be able to keep the corporation afloat, and the stockholders happy. How do we do this? Well since the USA has a ridiculous sugar tax, the first thing we do is close the US Bakeries and Open Bakeries in Canada and Mexico. Where suprise there is no sugar tax, saving us instantly an average of $10 Million dollars a year or more per facility in just sugar costs. Then we have the new bakeries in countries where the labor rate is substantially less, they don't have unions, and we don't have to give benefits, so thats saves the company even more money. Then we just ship the stuff back over the border into the USA. Did i mention the FDA doesn't get involved outside the USA and the goods are treated as imports, the ingredients are also then bought from local suppliers, making the US lose even more revenue thus jobs. SO now we are eating cookies that are not produced understringent FDA regulations, uses cheaper quality ingredients, and cheaper labor, and costs probably 50 cents a bag to produce, all so the people who are losing their jobs can pay cheaper prices at wal-mart. This was a for instance, this is happening in every aspect of their predatory business on a day to day basis in everything that they buy or sell. The only people they have yet to be able to push around is the bigger company, a.k.a. Microsoft. They tried to do the whole linux thing but thats not really working out for them. But Walmart is the root of a viscious cycle, and the people most liekly to lose their jobs or suffer because of what is going on with them are the ones who shop there the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brand Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 WalMart?! Kill yourself. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigapixels Veteran Posted January 8, 2006 Veteran Share Posted January 8, 2006 Can't stand Wal-Mart. The only reason I ever go there is because they're open later than any other store and sometimes I need to buy something late at night. Even then I usually just wait until the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech085 Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Bestbuy or Compusa Best Store if you are interested in computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahhell Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Poll needed an option for "they both suck". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John S. Veteran Posted March 13, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 13, 2006 Poll needed an option for "they both suck". Absolutely...WalMart does nothing but suck the life from American businesses by capitalizing on the benefit of buying in mass quantities produced for pennies in China. Best Buy is overpriced, I'd rather buy online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn00pie Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Best Buy, I really like the atmosphere of the place and I love the Apple section! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahhell Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 The atmosphere at the BB near my place is brutal. A bunch of bored fat chicks in very tight tan pants. *shudder* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway. Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I actually prefer Fry's Electronics to both of these. Although if I had to, I would shop at Best Buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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