Best Buy Can Now Overcharge New Yorkers 'Round The Clock
If you like Best Buy, come to New York City! In November the company will open its first 24-hour store, in the remodeled carcass of the Circuit City that formerly anchored Union Square. In fact, it's probably best we call it the Circuit City Best Buy to avoid confusion. According to Best Buy's PR department, the store will also feature "the largest Best Buy Musical Instruments Department in the United States."
"Best Buy Opens First 24-Hour Store" [RetailWire]
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I wonder what will be worse... the drunk people staring at the TVs at 5am or the homeless people trying to find a cozy spot to make home in the "furniture" section...
If I remember correctly that was not the largest space. Further, Union Square is a nice area but it is an interesting choice of locale as I think many more people would be around midtown.
I love it.
"I think Best Buy has it."
"Which Best Buy?"
"Circuit City Best Buy."
It's new york...everything is more expensive.
@RPHP: Yeah...but tourists generally don't come to NYC to buy cds and dvds in the middle of the night.
Why do I envision some impromptu flash mobs showing up to Best Circuit Buy City, and playing "Let's Go Band" or something similar? Perhaps people in full Band attire, sans instruments wanting to try them out?
Great, now I want to watch Drumline.
I have been to many Best Buy stores, and to top the "musical instrument department" in any of those stores, they would only have to stock three electric guitars.
@proskills: touche! I just hope they don't set up amps otherwise there's going to be a stairway to heaven fist fight.
For the record: It's common knowledge that if you play stairway to heaven in public in a guitar shop you get smacked the f*** up and/or lose your life.
BB carries musical instruments?
I think I'll go torment a couple of blue shirts by asking them to compare the differences between open-wrap and closed-wrap bass trombones, or 4/4 vs. 5/4 sized tubas.
Probably will be a short conversation.
In a City that never sleeps, nightmares of Monster Cables still frighten the Zombies of the Night...
I ♥ Best Buy, BIG TIME! Over charge?!? Ludicrous !
The best approach to not get fanagled is to try out said product, decide if it works for you, return it and look for used; or a better deal online. Just a little secret between you & I.
i like this conversion best:
it's the former petersburg VA circuit city in use as a spirit hallowe'en seasonal store.
it's like zombie circuit city...
here's before spirit halloween - i love the creative signage on the conversion
[please ignore the odd composite image of the compass on my car dashboard being reflected into the pic]
@WatchOutNow: ya, their return policy is pretty low-hassle. Bought an mp3 player for a brother-in-law I was going to go visit, found out when we got there, he'd been a ahole lately, so we didn't give him the mp3 player. Went back, returned it, told them why (was a gift for someone it turned out didn't deserve it) and they gave me back my cash.
Great place to try before you buy.
@proskills: Exactly. I just think of it as the tambourine department.
I think Walmart has more musical instruments than our local BB.
The Circuit City building here intown also became a Halloween store, at least for the next 2 weeks or so.
It is nice that the building gets used for about a month once a year. I don't really see a problem with that.
"Best Buy - Now open twenty-four hours! Need a new guitar amp at midnight? No problem! Want a new TV to watch HSN at 3am? Come right in!"
I can't wait to hang out at this best buy hahaha. This was one of my fav Circuit Citys because I thought it was so funny there used to be a Virgin store next door selling the same DVDs for like $8 more. They are GONE too.
My favorite thing would be to find free internet on the one computer they didn't block, and try to check prices to see how much more money the things were at other stores, B&H, J&R, and Best Buy. And also of course check newegg etc. Now I guess you can do that on any smartphone... which I don't have.
"In a City that never sleeps, nightmares of Monster Cables still frighten the Zombies of the Night..."
Ahhhaha just read that one.
Personally I wouldn't buy any musical instrument Best Buy sells. Nothing against Best Buy (on that front anyway) but in general musical instruments that get sold in non-musical instrument stores, e.g. clarinets and violins you buy at Staples, are cheap imports that aren't particularly well made and questionable when you consider little things like intonation and keeping in tune. (I bought my first banjo at a Musicland and it almost put me off playing forever, it was that bad.)
This really belongs in Las Vegas first with the 24/7 thing.
wow, so now i can buy over priced 2n d rate guitars AND a HDTV in the same place at 4AM!?
BEST STORE EVER
@RPHP: In Boston, Best Buy took over the Virgin Megastore on Newbury Street a few years ago.
Definitely a downgrade.
They want to compete with Guitar Center near Union Square? The only guitars I've seen at Best Buy have been First Act guitars and if they plan to use that to compete, I don't know how.
I like Best Buy.
@eirrom:
Well truth be told there has been a few times I needed ram at 2 in the morning......still wouldn't help I live out in the farmlands of Illinios. There is a 24hr Wal*Fart, but they neither stock nor know what ram is.
@nstonep: Midtown in my opinion is more centrally located than the village - I was not specifically referring to Times Square but midtown in general compared to union square.
@proskills: The best buy in Dublin CA has over 100 Guitars from 80 bucks to over a couple grand, drums and just about any other instrument imaginable. It's a new thing they are trying out. Dublin CA doesn't have much along the lines of a music store so they are probably trying to pick areas that they can fill that void. If you are in a non music section Best Buy store all you will get is 3 of the crapiest guitars ever made. Surprisingly in the one near me the people in the Music Department actually know their stuff. Too bad the rest of the store is dense.
Wait. They actually think they'll be able to make money selling musical instruments ... in New York City? The city that already has lots of competition in that particular field? Are they kidding???
@OtakuboyT: YeeHaw! So yer lookin' fer ram? Shure we got dat here. Jus' check the cattle section partner.
It would be easier to take all the BBY haters seriously if any of them had actually set foot in a store that had a musical instruments section and not the little cruddy end caps. The MI section is only present in a select number of stores and is staffed by musicians who need a steady gig on the side. I don't think the Clapton Fender for two grand is second rate... Why not do a quick Web search before spouting off?
@RPHP: Well, it probably beats opening a 24 hour store in Bedford Stuyvesant. "May I see your receipt please." Gunshots.
@GitEmSteveDave_NodsHisHeadLikeYeah: I was unfortunate enough to be trapped into watching that movie once. Blasted airplanes and their trappingness.
@catastrophegirl: We have one of these too! Cept it's the old "big red plug" style circuit city.
Don't make the zombies angry.. they'll steal your computer and give it to FireDog.
@FLConsumer: it's actually because i just kept losing my compass so i velcroed it up there and i have it whenever i want it for camping.
it doesn't function while in the car because anywhere on the actual dashboard it just points to the radio.
@zjgz: hehe, obviously your example employee is working at walmart because he/she failed at animal husbandry too.... rams are sheep
I feel so sorry for the poor schlubs that have to man Best Buy's graveyard shift.
It's better than working the graveyard at the 7-11, but not by much.
@Kimaroo - No Stars Upon Thars: I live across the street from a high school. I get the urge to watch it whenever a big game is coming up.
@Omir The Storyteller: You can buy clarinets at Staples?!? Damn. I think I need to pick up a three-pack of them the next time I need compressed air.
What I *really* need is a 24-hour Super Staples with cheap, imported bass saxophones.
@roshambo: Yeah, the Best Buy in my town gutted a corner of their store and opened a new music area and they actually have a decent selection of stuff: An entire wall of guitars, drum kits - both real and electronic, DJ equipment, mixers, amps, recording software, etc.
I also don't get the overcharge thing. With the exception of individual computer parts -- internal drives, memory, etc, which they do ream you for -- the prices I've paid at Best Buy are usually within a few dollars of any other local store or Amazon.
Because when I think music, I think generic big-box stores.