Like other reviewers seem to have echoed, I have gone to other retail avenues for my electronics goods. I frequent online retailers like Amazon for the sheer simplicity of shopping, the lack of intrusive sales people, and heck, let's be honest: no sales tax!
That being said, this Best Buy isn't as great as some of the others. In fact, its pretty bad.
The sales people are helpful for the most part (if you can find one), especially the nice gentleman from Samsung in the TV department (forgot his name, sorry - I think it was Matt?)
However, the detriment to their salesforce (and this experience) was their "Apple expert." (His name might have been Matt, too)
I knew more about Apple than he did, although he claimed that he knew significantly more than he let on. In fact, he stressed that he was the "Apple expert" several times during the sales diatribe. He proceeded to show off his Apple "pieces of flair" not unlike that of a TGI Friday's employee circa 1998.
What I think was going to be a in and out experience turned out to be a 30 to 45 minutes sales presentation. I knew exactly what I wanted and what I came in for yet he insisted on filling out all of these pictures with "recommendations" that were completely unnecessary, unwarranted, and irrelevant.
Every time I said, "No, I don't need that." He said, "Yeah, management makes me...blah blah blah."
He blamed that these sales procedures on management, and then proceeded to use the phrase "that's BS" several times during his little. He stated, "I don't like to be an A-hole to my customers," but then proceeded to tack on unnecessary items to my order. (Who needs AntiVirus for an iPad, really??).
Not to be outdone, he saw a group of young ladies and commented, (creepily) "that's nice."
After 20 agonizing minutes of listening to this guy go on and on about how he knows so much about Apple products and he is the shining example of their sales team: I got my merchandise.
As he went to ring me up, I asked him if I could apply a reward certificate to my purchase. He said "no problem." Apparently, there was a problem because it required a team of physicists, six trained monkeys, a marching band, Stephen Hawking's notes on the black holes, five calculators, and the sales manager.
And to top off my visit (I am a glutton for punishment), I stopped at the Geek Squad counter to have them install something for me. I was in the line and walked by several times over the course of five minutes not so much as a "We'll be right with you." I decided I would do it on my own at home and I left.
Summary:
1) sales people think its okay to use "a-holes", "that's BS" and creepily comment on female customers
2) unnecessary add ons despite customer objection
3) long waits
4) clean store
5) plenty of parking read more