[ericlewis]

I've known people who work at Best Buy and they get their products substantially cheaper, just as the online retailers do. There is some level of bake in for storing it at the store... but not really much different from sitting in an amazon warehouse for instance, most best buys have large warehouses in the back you'd never be aware of. Many people aren't aware of the price matching nor take advantage of it, they also sometimes will "confirm" the price match, so you can't really fake them out. And you end up browsing whilst they do the price match + grab the product from the back.

Long term sustainable simply because they've already baked it in and it's less widely known amongst the typical consumer and its honestly kind of a hassle, people pay for convenience.

[bombcar]

Best Butt is basically a group of warehouses across the country - order from them online and you may find your order shipped from random Beat Buy stores.

And for many of their products they all sell at MSRP anyway (apple laptops say) so they’re already matching Amazon et Al. And things like hdmi cables are some off brand and so they don’t price match anyway.

They have a pretty slick setup going, also jumped in on the appliances market just as Sears et Al disappeared.

[bluGill]

There is there real value. When you need it now they are just across town. You have to be very rural to not have one within half an hour. Amazon has 2 hour delivery in large cities, but only some cities (though granted the exceptions are small population).

[op00to]

Best butt, hehe.