If you want to shop for electronics, but still need that "Primark" feeling.. Yuck!
I don't know what went into the heads of the managers of the Mediamarkt in the Alexa Mall at Alexanderplatz (Probably some construction machines?). It used to be nice and cozy, then they had to "restructure" and for no particular reason whatsoever, decided to remove all the separate cash registers and bundle them into one gigantic line, like Primark, except that Primark, for all its terrible hillbilly-like qualities, actually does the gigantic line thing correct! But not at Mediamarkt ...
If you have the misfortune of actually needing to buy something there that you couldn't find at the "Saturn" literally across the street from them, then you'll stand in a long line reminiscent of the Unemployment Office or Auschwitz, and I say Auschwitz because while standing in that long line, you will be stared at by a very unfriendly-looking Aryan security guy. Why? Because the line is so awful that it seems to bring out aggression. So what else to calm the mood than a muscular tattooed blond "Ossi" making sure you behave yourself, at a store where you willingly spend your hard-earned money? Go figure.
But that is only half the fun. Imagine my joy as I actually had to return something back! First you stand in a (finally) separate line at the info desk, but the info desk is part of that huge Isle of desperation serving the long line! So you have to wait until one of the nice ladies finally takes time from serving the huge line to come and see what your problem is!
After that, no matter where you bought it, they kindly ask you to take the stuff TWO FLOORS up. Why? Because that's where the friggin "Service" is. Why am I supposed to walk two friggin floors up to the "Service" to get a piece of paper and then walk down again to give it to the person responsible so he can give me more paper so I can stand AGAIN in the huge line of doom while being stared at by a Nazi scumbag so I can finally get my money back and get the hell out? Because the managers of the Alexa Mediamarkt are MISERABLE CUNTS who want to make all their customers just as miserable as they are!
Finally, after getting a "receipt" that my money will be refunded back to my account one day, I walked out from the Mediamarkt into the stinking fat-infested air of the Alexa, vowing never to return there again, except maybe in a bulldozer that I can drive through that miserable place. Never again. Say it with me German people! read more