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	<title>Comments on: Best Buy Jumps in Musical Intrument Retail</title>
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		<title>By: Carter</title>
		<link>http://drummertalk.org/2008/07/31/best-buy-jumps-in-musical-intrument-retail/comment-page-1/#comment-1617</link>
		<dc:creator>Carter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I will say after going in and checking it out that the music department was much higher end than I anticipated. No FirstAct drums or &quot;Starcaster&quot; guitars. Saw some Gibson guitars, Yamaha keys, DW drums, etc.

Aside from the salesmen being to busy showing off his guitar skills to help me, I was impressed. I still think they&#039;re spreading themselves too thin. You can only be so good at so many things.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will say after going in and checking it out that the music department was much higher end than I anticipated. No FirstAct drums or &#8220;Starcaster&#8221; guitars. Saw some Gibson guitars, Yamaha keys, DW drums, etc.</p>
<p>Aside from the salesmen being to busy showing off his guitar skills to help me, I was impressed. I still think they&#8217;re spreading themselves too thin. You can only be so good at so many things.</p>
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		<title>By: T.J.</title>
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		<dc:creator>T.J.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am in charge of one of these &quot;evil yellow tag music Jugernauts&quot;  Let me tell you what you have under estimated here.  

1. My employees aren&#039;t part time high school Kids. 

I myself have a degree in Music Performance.  I have worked part time for bestbuy prior to this endevour and I went and jumped on board big time when I was offered a chance to run one.  Other employees in my department are ex employees of SAM ASH and G.C.  so I am pretty sure I have nothing to worry about here.

2.  At least shopping at a Best Buy the Employees aren&#039;t going to be stoned, and unkempt as the G.C. and Sam Ash employees are in my area.  

3.  Two weeks ago Sam Ash managers came into Best Buy to check us out.  Two days later we recieved a call from one of there employees complaining about how they got ripped a new one on how much cleaner Best Buys store is.  

Best Buy  belongs in the Entertainment Market, and the Musical Instrument Division of the stores fits well in with there stores.  G.C. and Sam Ash best be shaking in there shoes because in the few months best buy has been here they are already a big player.
The intrest in respects to Vendors has been nothing but Positive also; companys like Kaman Music and Roland are exstatic about Best Buy carrying there products.  It is good for business in a market that has not enough competition.  In the Past with Mars, and other major players falling off the Map there are too few retailers that aren&#039;t online providers.  

Best Buys biggest Problem is Advertising right now.  They are too busy advertising for TV&#039;s, PC&#039;s, and Appliances, and haven&#039;t really started advertising for the Music Instrument Department.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am in charge of one of these &#8220;evil yellow tag music Jugernauts&#8221;  Let me tell you what you have under estimated here.  </p>
<p>1. My employees aren&#8217;t part time high school Kids. </p>
<p>I myself have a degree in Music Performance.  I have worked part time for bestbuy prior to this endevour and I went and jumped on board big time when I was offered a chance to run one.  Other employees in my department are ex employees of SAM ASH and G.C.  so I am pretty sure I have nothing to worry about here.</p>
<p>2.  At least shopping at a Best Buy the Employees aren&#8217;t going to be stoned, and unkempt as the G.C. and Sam Ash employees are in my area.  </p>
<p>3.  Two weeks ago Sam Ash managers came into Best Buy to check us out.  Two days later we recieved a call from one of there employees complaining about how they got ripped a new one on how much cleaner Best Buys store is.  </p>
<p>Best Buy  belongs in the Entertainment Market, and the Musical Instrument Division of the stores fits well in with there stores.  G.C. and Sam Ash best be shaking in there shoes because in the few months best buy has been here they are already a big player.<br />
The intrest in respects to Vendors has been nothing but Positive also; companys like Kaman Music and Roland are exstatic about Best Buy carrying there products.  It is good for business in a market that has not enough competition.  In the Past with Mars, and other major players falling off the Map there are too few retailers that aren&#8217;t online providers.  </p>
<p>Best Buys biggest Problem is Advertising right now.  They are too busy advertising for TV&#8217;s, PC&#8217;s, and Appliances, and haven&#8217;t really started advertising for the Music Instrument Department.</p>
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		<title>By: paul</title>
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		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i think its a good thing for musician on a budgit....if the $$$ is rite...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i think its a good thing for musician on a budgit&#8230;.if the $$$ is rite&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Alan Kenny</title>
		<link>http://drummertalk.org/2008/07/31/best-buy-jumps-in-musical-intrument-retail/comment-page-1/#comment-687</link>
		<dc:creator>Alan Kenny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The only up side I see to this is maybe Best Buy&#039;s &quot;buying power&quot; may push down the price on some items, like say sticks for instance.
I totally agree though, no serious musician is going to go there for any kind of significant instrument investment.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only up side I see to this is maybe Best Buy&#8217;s &#8220;buying power&#8221; may push down the price on some items, like say sticks for instance.<br />
I totally agree though, no serious musician is going to go there for any kind of significant instrument investment.</p>
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