Competition is good
Circuit City is going out of business. Wouldn’t you think Best Buy would be gleeful about this?
Yesterday, I was at Best Buy trying to get my stereo to accommodate my IPOD. Mind you, last time I was there and spoke with a sales rep he pointed me to a Kenwood that was low cost and said this is what you need. Only they didn’t have one in stock. So yesterday, I went back and this other guy tells me you don’t want the Kenwood, you want Alpine. And I said look, I’m replacing a factory installed stereo only to get my IPOD to play through it because all of the radio devices DO NOT WORK. I’m not upgrading speakers or anything else, so why should I have a high falutin stereo installed without the rest of it being upgraded.
He got another sales clerk to work with me.
And so I asked the new sales clerk while he was writing up my Kenwood what he thought about Circuit City going out of business and whether that is a good or bad thing for Best Buy. He said, “I just feel for those people who will lose their jobs.”
Hey, a sales clerk with a heart.