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Re: why best buy sucks





On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Bo Williams wrote:

> why i support local business, by bo williams, age 20
> 
> ok. so i go into poindexter's tonight, am pleasantly greeted by andy
> schull and jack campbell, and i go to root around in the vinyl, see if
> there's anything new. and there is. boy, is there. so there's this new
> thing out on drunken fish, which is a three-record box set, with side-long
> cuts by bardo pond, flying saucer attack, jessamine, roy montgomery, loren
> mazzacane connors, and charalambides. it's priced $19.86. I have $20.20. I
> go to the counter anyway. Jack looks at it, we talk about how it's a
> really limited pressing and this is their last copy (i was just lucky i
> got there thirty seconds before jeff stern did) and Jack rings it up. $21.
> I have $20.20. I show Jack my $20.20. He says, "just bring me a buck next
> time you're in here." he doesn't know me at all, and he says this to me.
> *that* is why i don't go to best buy.
> 
> do you think anybody at best buy will ever do that? hell fucking no.
> 
> if you haven't got the point by now, you're just not going to.

A great story, but what would you do if you could save $50-$100
on something. How dedicated are folks to local businesses then?

Curious,

Jeffrey


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> bo
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