Current Events > Imagine all tv sales at San Francisco Best Buy's tommorow

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Good thing tax returns are coming soon

I dont imagine this is actually a thing that will happen.

I don't imagine there will be too many sales of tvs. When San Franciscans want a new tv, they just throw a rock through the store's glass and take it.

Jackal4 posted...

I don't imagine there will be too many sales of tvs. When San Franciscans want a new tv, they just throw a rock through the store's glass and take it.

how the fuck are these dumb random one-and-done accounts so quick at this stupid scaremonger shit

With great sales, there will also be great returns too.

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The implication is that people got so angry over their team losing that they smashed their TV and now need to buy a new one.

Which I wouldn't doubt sadly

WilliamPorygon posted...

The implication is that people got so angry over their team losing that they smashed their TV and now need to buy a new one.

Which I wouldn't doubt sadly

Just wait. The videos will start popping up on social media and YouTube

WilliamPorygon posted...

The implication is that people got so angry over their team losing that they smashed their TV

cam newton ie fig newton caused me to do that, a terrible play he caused which resulted in the outcome of fucking up a TV.

i still blame him. it was all his fault.

To be honest its the week leading UP to the Super Bowl that had lots of TV sales.. its the next week or 2 that is going to be loaded with TV returns because a common occurrence was people by supersized HD 4k-8k fancy TV's to watch the Super Bowl on.. then return them after it

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zv1jAS-YPlg

Jackal4 posted...

I don't imagine there will be too many sales of tvs. When San Franciscans want a new tv, they just throw a rock through the store's glass and take it.

cringe failure of a post

https://youtu.be/3SgjkB9o5BI?si=eIg91dBUPryILXJ1

https://streamable.com/z823uh

WilliamPorygon posted...

The implication is that people got so angry over their team losing that they smashed their TV and now need to buy a new one.

Which I wouldn't doubt sadly

It's more so that people buy a TV just for the Super Bowl and return it afterwards. Which I don't think happens as much these days as it used too.

Jackal4 posted...

I don't imagine there will be too many sales of tvs. When San Franciscans want a new tv, they just throw a rock through the store's glass and take it.

Sadly, you were tricked by the false reports and hysteria about shoplifting and theft in big cities.

While there was an uptick in crime around the pandemic, it's returning to normal levels, and the reports used by media to sensationalize the "ReTAiL sHOpLiFTing!!!! - - were found to be massively flawed.

Why retailers are walking back claims of organized theft
https://theweek.com/retail/organized-theft-shoplifting-false-report

Claims of coordinated retail theft plaguing stores across the United States have become commonplace news stories in recent years. This was seemingly corroborated by a report this April from the National Retail Foundation (NRF) that determined "nearly half" of the merchandise stolen in the U.S. in 2021 was the result of organized retail crime, or ORC. This is defined by the NRF's website as the "large-scale theft of retail merchandise with the intent to resell the items for financial gain."
However, the NRF ended up retracting its estimate this month after the trade outlet Retail Dive reported that this figure was incorrect and "used an old NRF estimate of total inventory loss, including loss unrelated to theft." But while the NRF pulled back its claim following Retail Dive's report, it maintained that ORC remained a significant problem. Despite this, there seems to be a continuing disparity in the media between the assumed reasons and true causes of retail theft.
What was the discrepancy in the report?

While the NRF originally estimated that almost 50% of theft in 2021 was from ORC, most experts agree that this number was incorrectly reported. Organized groups were likely responsible for just 5% of all theft, Trevor Wagener, the chief economist at the Computer & Communications Industry Association, told The New York Times. In reality, ORC "represents only a small fraction of total retail inventory shrink in the best publicly available data about $0.07 per $100 in total retail sales for the most recent years," Wagener said during a congressional hearing on retail crime.

Why reports of a surge in retail theft may be overblown
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-reports-of-a-surge-in-retail-theft-may-be-overblown

Most Americans think theres more crime in the U.S. than there was a year ago, according to a recent Gallup poll. Thats despite clear data showing violent crime has actually dropped sharply in 2023. So why the misperception? Economics correspondent Paul Solman takes a deep dive into one type of crime that may be getting outsized attention.

I don't know that posters posting history, but I assumed it was a joke...

ShineboxPhil posted...

https://streamable.com/z823uh

I hope that's his TV, because otherwise, I wouldn't blame someone for kicking his ass

I used to work at best buy about 6 years ago.

The week after the super bowl always sucked hard. Easily over 100 TV returns, every year, at the store I was at alone. Was bad enough that the home theater guys would all try to take off the week before, because their sales numbers would get trashed to hell and back once they were all brought back.

Plenty of numbnuts try to return broken tvs that they SWEAR were like that when they took it out of the box, and they just couldn't make it back to the store until the day after the superbowl. One charming dickwad hid a ton of used diapers in the box in such a way that you probably wouldn't know until you reached inside.

Fuckin people

ShineboxPhil posted...

https://streamable.com/z823uh

What an asshole. He completely ruined the entire group's night. And for what? Why didn't he smash something else? Or punch a pillow? I don't get it. Breaking a TV is such an illogical move

Why she cleaning the tv after though?
https://streamable.com/til3fl