[SamuelAdams]

Had the same experience buying a CPU from Microcenter. You told a store associate what processor you wanted, he wrote it on a cardboard slip, then you get the product after checkout is paid for. Overall I was pretty happy with the process. Hardest part was hunting down a sales associate.

[benglish11]

At Costco you don't even have to tell a store associate. They have a stack of cardboard posters with the item on it and you take that to the register

[gre]

Fry's had a cage behind the registers with all their small expensive parts like CPUs and RAM.