Yeah but it's an ever-rotating parade of amateurs and since the road to advancement is gone they don't stick around to build up the expertise. When I was young you'd walk into a place selling hi-fi stereo equipment and the guy there had worked in the field for decades and had some appreciable knowledge of it. Does the guy at Best Buy do that?
Best buy will never pay more than a few dollars above the minimum wage, thus best buy has decided that the guy behind that counter will be pulled from the lowest acceptable pool of candidates. I'm sure stores that have knowledgeable people for that type of thing still exist, you just have to pay more for that service. Myself, Ill just read the reviews on Amazon.
> Best buy will never pay more than a few dollars above the minimum wage, thus best buy has decided that the guy behind that counter will be pulled from the lowest acceptable pool of candidates. I'm sure stores that have knowledgeable people for that type of thing still exist, you just have to pay more for that service.
And so this brings us back to my initial contention. Yes. That's true. The problem is that this sort of "good enough" stuff makes being an expert an untenable position and those stores are pretty much just gone, even if you are willing to pay (the pool of customers who are is too small to support it).
