Skinny Viking
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Wellllll, there is the internet and webcams and chat rooms and naive teenagers....
you're killin me here
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roy22341
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Yeah baby!
Nothing beats a shorti meatball with cheese & hot peppers at 4am after a gig
I used to live 80 yards from a Wawa and life couldn't have been better. Now I'm thousands of miles from a Wawa and there is a great hole in my heart.
Dalinkwent48@aim.com
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Skinny Viking
¯\(°_o)/¯ How do Lydian?
how could you be thousands of miles from one? your location says PA?
I used to have a Wawa literally a 20 second walk from my apartment. Turned into a Pantry 1 a couple years ago, things just haven't been the same
Used to be this one fat chick at the Wawa, man she used to hook me up when I'd get a sandwich and mac & cheese. Couldn't close the sandwich and the lid was popping off the mac & cheese container every time. She wanted me
roy22341
Member
I can see it when i look out my front door
I used to be able to look out my bedroom window and see mine. When I would get lonely at night, I would get up and look out the window at the great Wawa and it would put me in a peaceful place.
Dalinkwent48@aim.com
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i love how this went from best buy selling guitars to a thread about wawa...and viking i think theres one of said fat chicks at every wawa ive ever been to...wawas just not the same without the fat chick with the beard hooking up the sandwiches
Skinny Viking
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Bestbuy was started and owned by a guy named DiCk Shult until their stock went public about 10 years ago. I believe Bestbuy owns, Suncoast movies, Jr's music, Redline Entertainment movie group and Futureshop.
Guitar Center I believe is owned by Icon Industries. you probably better know them as BlockBuster video.
Guitar Center I believe is owned by Icon Industries. you probably better know them as BlockBuster video.
When I was in the Best Buy music department, it looked eerily familiar to a GC... I asked the guy about it and he said it's not a direct affiliation, but they are affiliated. He said he had to do his 'new hire' training at GC.
So they must be in business together in some way.
So they must be in business together in some way.
Kazrog
Kazrog, Inc.
I have mixed feelings about this. It's just another way that they are making it difficult for independent music shops to stay in business. However, I'm also glad that it's cool to be good at the guitar still, that despite whatever garbage is happening to the industry, etc., that kids are picking up instruments and learning to play.
P-E
Munchkin
+1 to all, a friend of mine's grandfather owns a music shop and it's not quite as rewarding as some of you'd think, even with the boosted prices (MSRP).
J the TyranT
Thats just how it is...
The guy at my local Best Buy internal music store or whatever TF its called used to work at my nearest Guitar Center.
Rob Logic
yayyyyyy!
I've worked at Best Buy for over 8 years. The musicial instruments store within a store started as a test a couple of years ago. There are something like 80 of them mostly in large markets across the US. What we carry within the store is definitely watered down for what we can special order. We got into it because the MI industry is a multi-billion dollar a year industry that still retains profit margins where as a lot of the other products we sell ie: computers and even to a percentage, TV's are commodities and have very little profit if any at all. (it's still hard for me to wrap it around my head that when I started working there, we had a plasma that cost $12,999 with $7,000 in profit everytime we sold one and now the same tv would make us $150 if it's not on sale)
The thing I like most about it is, it's a growing business within the company. We continue to add brands every month or so (we just picked up Dean which doesn't blow my skirt up but none the less grows the brand) and our capability to special order is quite amazing. With so many parent companies out there, if we carry for instance Washburn, that means we can order Parker or Randall amps because they are all under US Music Corp.
We also have awesome financing, 18 months no interest on $249 and above right now which makes getting new gear possible for people and spreading payments out over a year and a half is awesome especially for all of us who go to school and struggle at times to get food in our guts.
It also introduces competition to the dominate GC. This will drive prices down for all of us and make better gear more affordable no matter where you shop. I do realize it potentially makes it a bad thing for the small business owner but there are obviously brands that they carry that big box stores will never have and a generation of shoppers that will remain loyal.
The thing I like most about it is, it's a growing business within the company. We continue to add brands every month or so (we just picked up Dean which doesn't blow my skirt up but none the less grows the brand) and our capability to special order is quite amazing. With so many parent companies out there, if we carry for instance Washburn, that means we can order Parker or Randall amps because they are all under US Music Corp.
We also have awesome financing, 18 months no interest on $249 and above right now which makes getting new gear possible for people and spreading payments out over a year and a half is awesome especially for all of us who go to school and struggle at times to get food in our guts.
It also introduces competition to the dominate GC. This will drive prices down for all of us and make better gear more affordable no matter where you shop. I do realize it potentially makes it a bad thing for the small business owner but there are obviously brands that they carry that big box stores will never have and a generation of shoppers that will remain loyal.
ahjteam
Anssi Tenhunen
Best Buy Subsidiaries:
Future Shop
Geek Squad
Magnolia
Napster
Speakeasy
"On July 29 2008 Best Buy announced that it will start selling musical instruments and related gear in over 80 of its retail stores, making the company the second largest musical instrument distributor in the US (the largest being Guitar Center)"
Guitar Center is a subsidiary company of Bain Capital
Future Shop
Geek Squad
Magnolia
Napster
Speakeasy
"On July 29 2008 Best Buy announced that it will start selling musical instruments and related gear in over 80 of its retail stores, making the company the second largest musical instrument distributor in the US (the largest being Guitar Center)"
Guitar Center is a subsidiary company of Bain Capital
roy22341
Member
how could you be thousands of miles from one? your location says PA?
I used to have a Wawa literally a 20 second walk from my apartment. Turned into a Pantry 1 a couple years ago, things just haven't been the same
Used to be this one fat chick at the Wawa, man she used to hook me up when I'd get a sandwich and mac & cheese. Couldn't close the sandwich and the lid was popping off the mac & cheese container every time. She wanted me
Still completely off-topic but I moved to Louisiana about 6 months ago - so no Wawa for at least 1000 miles. Sadness has come over me.
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