Best Buy Says It Has Killed 'Showrooming' For Good

[MADem]

68. Granny doesn't have a smartphone. Or a computer. Her TV set is an old RCA.

She's on a fixed income, and now she needs a new TV because the RCA blew up and it can't be fixed.

She will get ripped off cheerily, no doubt.

If the Big Box Store was truly interested in giving everyone the best price, they'd Just Do It. But plainly, plenty of grannies and grampies and luddites wander into their store, pull what they want off the shelf, and pay without complaining.

And no one in a bright blue polo shirt with the store label on it will say One Word to clue them in that they might be able to save a few precious dollars.

That sucks.

I started thinking about my friends and relations, and how "wired in" they are, as a consequence of this thread. After I got to ten people with no smart phones or computers, I stopped counting. There are many, MANY more.

There IS a whole world of people out there who aren't glued to their screens. They spend money, too. I drive about a hundred of them to the polls every election. They get their news from "the tee vee" and the "pay-pah."

So I don't think it's unfair at all to say that this Big Box takes advantage of those who are not "connected." And aside from the elderly, or the technologically timid, who is most likely to NOT be connected? The POOR. So, yay, Big Box, for fucking over the very least of our brethren! They shoulda just skipped a few hundred meals, not paid the light bill, and bought themselves a smart phone!!! Then they'd be deserving of a discount!