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| - Finding myself in need of a wireless router soon (going from AT&T U-Verse back to TWC because of moving - AT&T supplies wireless router, TWC charges you $15/mo. !?)., after a stop at The Home Depot located in the same shopping center, across from Carolina Place Mall, I thought I would check out Best Buy and see if they had what I needed.
I am typically an amazon girl, and I avoid going places to shop if at all possible (even though my job is the design of big box retailers). This stop was more of a "it's a pretty nice day out, I need to walk off lunch, oh look, there's Best Buy".
Upon walking into the store (clean, typical Best Buy footprint), there was a young lady in the middle of the aisle who appeared to be there to help direct traffic. I said "wireless router?", she pointed and said "computers are straight back", so straight back I went. As I know what a router looks like, I wandered the aisles until I found them, it only took a second. There were a few employees in the computer section, but I didn't necessarily need assistance so I just started to look at prices and read boxes. I had done some research online and pretty much knew what I was looking for. Once I found the Netgear router, and saw the price, I used my handy dandy amazon price check app on my phone to compare and found that the router was the same price on amazon as it was at Best Buy. SOLD! I randomly ran the price check on the 2 "better" models of the router that I had in my hand and found the prices to be exactly the same as amazon. Competitive pricing is what it's all about.
For a Sunday just after church, they were well enough staffed. I walked straight up to a young lady at the checkout who was friendly and efficient and I chit-chatted with her as I dug through my wallet looking for my debit card. I have very limited patience for shopping, so this visit was a great experience.
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