Why though? Dell started as a mail order company and still does a lot of sales that way. Besides, you can read or watch products reviews on the web and YouTube. Many of the online retailers like Amazon, Tiger Direct and Canada Computers have free shipping and a generous return policy.
Future Shop Is History
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Best Buy is just as bad as any of the others for pushing the warranties. The employees might have been salaried as far as the item goes, but they certainly made bonuses on warranties.
Do you remember the disaster when Walmart tried to bring Sams Club to Canada?
No way any warehouse chain is ever coming here again
I wish they had closed the north London Best Buy (in a plaza with a Staples, Sport Chek, Michaels and Penningtons and shitty parking) and changed the north London Future Shop (in a larger plaza with a Canadian Tire, Walmart and 40 other stores and tons of parking) into a Best Buy. I hate the accesibilty of the Best Buy location, which oddly enough, was a Future Shop originally. I wonder if they considered actually closing some Best Buy's and rebranding the nearby FS?
Get used to it guys. Not only electronics but retail in general and others will see more downsizing and closures as the economy slows amid stagnant / lower oil prices and lacklustre global demand. I don't think the cheaper loonie is enough to overcome the economy sliding down. Not every retailer is so "fortunate" like Bikini Village and has a white knight to bail it out.
Once everybody got hip to the extended warranty scam the stores had no way of making money anymore.
It's a shift. Other retailers benefit, get busier, hire more. The supply chain basically remains. If a million Canadians are going to buy TV's this year, they aren't going to not because 60 something Future Shop stores disappeared. If people are going to buy online rather than go to a store, then delivery companies benefit, and most of them make more than a store clerk. The transition period does suck for those immediately impacted of course.
Future Shop was a crafty business. They sent sales reps to shop at the competition for an identical product that they themselves carried in their inventory. They would then put that product on a limited time special. The special would be advantageously priced and the customers would be shown the competitors receipt just to conn the customers into believing that FS was always the lowest priced store.
Whenever I go to a BestBuy or Future Shop I'm always struck by how dead and stagnant the atmosphere is compared to 10 years ago when they were vibrant hubs buzzing with frenetic human activity.
I mentioned this to a BestBuy cashier a couple of weeks ago and he just smiled and sheepishly admitted that the store is not nearly as busy as it used to be back in the day and that the staff talks about it all the time.
I mentioned this to a BestBuy cashier a couple of weeks ago and he just smiled and sheepishly admitted that the store is not nearly as busy as it used to be back in the day and that the staff talks about it all the time.
That was my initial feeling as well. I remember when BB took over FS, and told a business partner at the time that within 5 years the FS name would disappear.
I guess it took almost 15...
Go to the BB at Bay and Dundas on a weekend, it's always got a lot of people inside. And with the nearby FS now closed it will only be busier.
Are you sure? I don't see the point of this when FS (and BB) already offer price matching.
I went into two of their stores to check out *cough* Windows based laptops 
...regardless, I thought, Future's days are numbered, crappy price, crappy products and 2 days later, it closed its doors.
Go figure.
TigerDirect was no big shock either, just a matter of time, completely shitty products and the prices even NOW when they're closing the doors are shit. 5% off a laptop? lol
Now we're relegated to the monster crap of Shit Buy and their prices and Amazon which is worse because you have to send in returns.
...regardless, I thought, Future's days are numbered, crappy price, crappy products and 2 days later, it closed its doors.
Go figure.
TigerDirect was no big shock either, just a matter of time, completely shitty products and the prices even NOW when they're closing the doors are shit. 5% off a laptop? lol
Now we're relegated to the monster crap of Shit Buy and their prices and Amazon which is worse because you have to send in returns.
I think people are being a little narrow minded here, if they think that retail can survive if everybody just bought on line, and all of the "stores" closed down because everybody bought on line.
Going into brick and mortar to kick the tires, then buying on line,...just how long do you feel that will last,...???
FAST
Going into brick and mortar to kick the tires, then buying on line,...just how long do you feel that will last,...???
FAST
No offense but stupid people will make the same mistake online as in store if they don't know what they're buying.
Had you done 5 minutes of research and read the actual description of what you were buying there wouldn't be a problem.
I for one purchase most of my stuff online. Why you ask? Last purchase i made locally in store was $399 plus tax. Online it was $299 plus free shipping. $112 difference and with the online purchase i don't have to waste my time or fuel going to get the product.
I loved their extended warranties. Buy a 500-1000$ product and pay the 50 dollar extended warranty. 2 years later when its just about to expire you go in and get a brand new product free of charge when yours is obsolete
Not at all surprising. Consider that Best Buy and Futureshop are same company, but one has a commission model and the other a flat salary model.
The future shop sales who have no product knowledge pressure the hell out of the people for warranties, guess which store people stopped going to.
I'm really surprised it survived this long, as I'm sure internet sales and competitors with better pricing, more knowledgeable staff, and no pressure tactics basically took over their share of the CDN market.
The future shop sales who have no product knowledge pressure the hell out of the people for warranties, guess which store people stopped going to.
I'm really surprised it survived this long, as I'm sure internet sales and competitors with better pricing, more knowledgeable staff, and no pressure tactics basically took over their share of the CDN market.
