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04/04/2007, 1:00pm, EDT
Wednesday, April 4th
Best Buy to sell Macs in 200 U.S. stores
Brick-and-mortar retail giant Best Buy is for the second time expanding a pilot program that began in late May of last year, bringing Apple computers to 200 of its stores by this fall. "We'll be expanding our relationship with Apple in 2007," said Best Buy president Brian Dunn during the company's latest earnings conference call. "We'll be offering Apple computers in 200 stores by this fall." The nation's largest consumer electronics retailer began with a select number of stores to test drive selling Mac systems, which grew to 50 stores across the U.S. in mid-October. The most recent pilot expansion reveals the success of its predecessors, increasing the exposure of Mac computers at Best Buy locations by three-fold. Circuit City also said it would begin selling Macs in a small number of its stores in the Eastern U.S. in early September to test the waters of Mac sales in its retail outlets.
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I personally think Best Buy is a joke. The people are idiots. Last time I was there looking at Macs, they told me not to get one because I can get a PC with the same chip (Core2Duo) for half the price.
To hell with Best Buy.
It is certainly not easier to buy a Mac from Best Buy when all the teenage clerks are steering people away from Macs with statements like the above poster mentioned. I have personally listened to Best Buy clerks deride the iPod as "not compatible" with Windows and recommend another player. The teenage clerks at Best Buy have never seen a Mac let alone used one. They all got PCs shoved down their throats in grade school. All they know is Windows.
This Best Buy deal will damage Mac sales, not increase them. It's deja-vu all over again.
Oh please!! Have you ever asked someone at best buy a question? Going by your comment you have NOT. They are NOT helpful, even more so when it comes to mac. Go ahead, goto a Best Buy that sells Macs, and ask the person there questions about it, pretend to be stupid when it comes to Mac. I bet you they will try to sell you a Vista PC. It doesn't matter if there are Mac retailers on every corner. If the person working there doesn't care about them, they will not sell them. The only time they will sell them is if you go there knowing you want one.
Why do I hate BestBuy? It started off when they decided to charge me $35 for a restore disk that already came with the computer, even when I asked, doesn't the computer already come with one? They said no. The next weekend, I pretended to buy another computer and when the guy finished writing up something for 10 minutes and he asked me the questions, I made them open up the box in front of me and look directly at it, and said, "What is this?" He was speechless. I told him i wasn't going to buy from him because he lied to me. Sorry dude. See ya next weekend.