Funny how they are going away in the rest of the country but in SoCal I see at least four still open off major freeways.
This post was edited by O-uknow at May 13, 2018 7:08 PM MDT
Its connection to the question is that it's usually uttered by old people and the nostalgic things mentioned in the question are old and rarely seen any longer, so they're usually remembered by older people as things from the past. ~
Nowadays, even when someone is working at a store, you as the customer have to wait to be helped until Biff finishes staring into his smart phone or responds to the thirteen text messages he's received in the past two seconds.
I went to Best Buy last week to buy a new tablet. When someone finally stopped to help me, he couldn't answer any questions because he said he didn't know anything about Android tablets and he was unable to find anyone else to help. His suggestion was to buy one and if I didn't like it I could return it in 15 days. This is why people order on-line.
Here is my own experience with Best Buy when I had to deal with learning how to operate a computer at home on my own. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE because of service they sold me that was not honored. No one knew how to answer any questions and I had to wait at least an hour like I had a doctor's appointment, only to be told over and over that I had to leave my computer there.
Like I had no use for my computer until they called me, which could be weeks later.
I went into the middle of the store and yelled at the top of my lungs after about 2 months of this. I yelled that I wanted a manager and I told them to please call the police if they wanted. I am going to sue them. I got my computer fixed that night.
Why deal with a place that forces one to be that hideous just to get heard after spending a grand in the place?
"Worst" Buy must be trending with all of us oldsters: years ago, I had a cell phone that I had purchased from them sometime during the Bronze Age, and after owning it for at least a few years, it was no longer taking a charge. I took it in and spoke with Hipster Dude Salesclerk, whose first query to me concerned whether or not it was still under its one-year warranty. I explained that I had bought it several years previously, so the warranty was already expired. At least four more times in the conversation about what choices were available to me, he kept harping back to the non-existent warranty, as if to chastise me for A] not having purchased any extended warranties, or (Heaven forbid) B] not having bought a new and upgraded model every year since. He seemed to take particular pleasure in informing me that with a current warranty, I could have simply turned in the old phone for a new one, and what a shame that I had a phone with no warranty. After all, everybody (all millenials) buys warranties on electronics. I practically exploded after that last time, "Listen, we've already established that there is no current warranty, let it go already! Grrrrrr." (The grrrrrr is only added here for AnswerMug purposes.) ~
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