On Feb 16, 2006, at 7:04 PM, William Robb wrote:
We have a box retailer in Canada called Bset Buy.
We have another called Future Shop.
I believe Best Buy owns Future Shop.
We have a couple of box-stores that are owned by the same parent
company. They typically have their stores side-by-side, and many of
the products they sell are identical. I know of one local whiteware
manufacturer who lock distributors into a dodgy exclusive contract,
so owning two chains of stores means they can sell that brand in one
store, and all the other brands in the other. [I don't know why the
government hasn't jumped all over that manufacturer as it seems
anticompetitive]
Once I received a small refund due to the price-matching policy after
I'd bought something from store and the other had a sale the
following week :)
We might go to Best Buy on the weekend so that I can grace his
salesman with
my most charming and best behaved self.
I await your amusing tale :) The salesman must be on commission to
behave like that, as the parent company won't care which store you
buy from.
- Dave
http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
