Begin scenario:
It's 5PM on a friday, you have a 3 day weekend ahead of you, it's time to sit your ass in your chair and do a gaming marathon.
You turn on your PC, or maybe it was already on, black screen and all, you reboot it, fuck, your SSD just went bad.
I guess you should of listened to the warning Ccleaner gave you when you overwrote the data from your last TOR trip. You totally fucked yourself now, Amazon is 2 days away, but wait, it's too late to order right now to ship today, and Sunday is coming so at best Monday is the soonest, mid afternoon to late evening depending where you live.
Your weekend is fucked.
As you sit there packing a bowl you remember something.
Shit like Best Buy still exists, right?
Well slap my ass and call me Susan, you load up and drive to your local Best Buy, you wander inside, for some reason there are isles full of washing machines and refrigerators to one side.
What the fuck? Is this Sears?
No matter, you wander in, just then this strange hobbit approaches you.
"Welcome to Best Buy, can I help you find something?" He speaks.
You explain you're after an SSD M.2, he puzzles a moment.
"That's a hard drive then?"
You brace for the worst as he points you to the accessories department, you walk over and browse the wares, and he reaches to a shelf and hands you this.
You cringe and winch a bit, then explain that is a 2.5 inch SSD, you need an M.2, and so now then clueless the hobbit wanders off to fetch the expert, he returns with this person.
Okay, cool, he's that overly knowledgeable friendly black guy who speaks white, surely he can help me.
After the hobbit poorly explains what you're after, you correct him once more and the friendly black man says to you.
"Oh we don't actually carry those in store."
And so you ask if they know of anywhere locally you can obtain it, and then it happens.
Something unspeakable, the dreaded bullshit line of bullshit, made of bullshit that mated with bullshit and produced a more condensed bullshit.
"We can order it for you."
And in a moment of absolutely mind fuckery, you explain to them.
"Yeah, I can order it too, and for much cheaper."
But it doesn't stop there, they somehow seem to forget reality exists, or they're obligated by a script to attempt it anyway, but they say to you;
"Yes but we can have it sent to your home with free shipping."
Then the exchange follows.
"It's free with prime shipping anyway, and it's a lot faster, and it's already cheaper." you explain.
"We'll match any Amazon price no problem." they rebuttal.
So you pull your phone out and show them what you're after, and it is indeed nearly $80 cheaper than what they have it for, but there is an excuse.
"We can only match things sold directly by Amazon."
And so the uselessness of the conversation finally reaches its peak, and you sit there looking at these assholes who have no concept of how commerce works anymore with stupid looks on their faces telling you the item being sold as new from a third party, and fulfilled by Amazon doesn't qualify.
You leave, return home, and place the Amazon order and then smoke a bunch of pot and play Xbox, having wasted the evening and gas, but with a reminder as to why we don't visit Big Box stores anymore.
Dear Big Box stores,
We don't want to order things through you, we have Amazon and eBay for this, we get 5% cash back when shopping on Amazon along with free 2 day shipping, buyer protections, and cheaper prices for the same items. We come to you in desperation, because we need the item now.
This goes for you too, GameStop.