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Article #9294Re: Best Buy Treated Me Like a Thief
From: trent
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:55
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:55
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Geoff Gass wrote: > > John A. Weeks III <john@johnweeks.com> wrote: > > In article <slrndrtm0d.kf8.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com>, > > Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote: > >> Sneaked past? Have you been to a Best Buy lately? Sometimes the door > >> guy is friendly and helpful, other times napping, other times not even > >> there. "inventory control point"? If they had a *sign* saying "get > >> your returns marked here", sure, but they don't. > > > > If the inventory control person (yellow shirt) isn't there, then > > activity is recorded on video. In this case, the original poster > > admitted that he sneaked into the outdoor and bypassed both the > > inventory control point and was not captured on the entry cameras. > > While it appears that BBY has a hole in their system, the guy was > > clearly doing something unusual by not using the public "IN" door. > > WTF is this mystical "inventory control point" you keep referencing. > I've never seen such a label in a store. As for going in the out door, > people do that all the damned time. No. You are thinking of Walgreens. trent -- "This user has a pattern of behaviour in the usenet group chi.forsale that borders on abusive."
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