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Best Buy is testing a digital-first, smaller retail store

Best Buy is opening a new digital-first 5,000 square feet small store in Monroe, North Carolina on July 26. This store will have selected tech products like home theater and audio, computing, headphon

Geek Squad Will Have You Shell Out $29 To "Setup" Your Ereader

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/080410-001-geek-squad-ebook-stupidity.jpg">Oh, <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/best-buy/">Best Buy</a>. When will you stop pimping

Best Buy Mac optimization includes create a user account. Mmm-hmm.

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/gs.jpg">Part Two of the ongoing <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/01/04/adventures-in-best-buy-optimization/">Best Buy Optimization

Wal-Mart rolling out tech support services

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guy.jpg">Hey, lookin' good there Mr. Man. I like your protective booties. They look like slippers! Wal-Mart has contracted with service

Best Buy and Geek Squad figure out how to squeeze customers even more with Game System setup

Just so everyone knows, Geek Squad is ready to take even more of your hard earned money by offering game system setup for you. The overpriced geeks will setup user accounts and set parental controls

Microsoft deploying 'Gurus' as part of their $300 million marketing campaign

Many have scoffed and scolded Microsoft for their new $300 million marketing campaign, but I applaud them. Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s first TV commercial for Microsoft was a smashing success, IMO. I

Home Theater on the fritz; AT&T's ConnecTech will fix it

AT&T wants a some of the tasty in-home service cake currently being enjoyed by Geek Squad, Firedog, and your local nerd herds. ConnecTech’s prices start out at a reasonable $69 for basic P

Geek Squad vs. Your Girlfriend

Attention Men of NYC- It’s Thursday, May 29, 2008, and that unfortunately means tonight is the premiere of the “Sex and the City” movie. Your significant other has undoubtedly begun

Geek Squad to observe a moment of silence for Arthur C. Clarke tonight

[photopress:2008_03_19T105500Z_01_NOOTR_RTRIDSP_2_SCIENCE_CLARKE_DEATH_DC_1.jpg,full,center] You read the headline right. How they’re related, with the exception of geek culture, I’m not s

Geek Squad Needs Your Big Ideas: A Chance To Meet Woz

Geek Squad, the computer repair company married to Best Buy, is looking for big thinkers. It’s looking for big thinkers in order to solve problems. Big problems. Big problems that require big th

Daily Crunch: Shower Scene

Geek Squad Dude Caught Recording Showering Women Juke Tower In-Shower MP3 Player: Bring Your Own Memory Fake Chopsticks for Wannabe Asian Food Nuts The Futurist: Technology and Toys — Sometimes Low-

Geek Squad Dude Caught Recording Showering Women

Here’s a sad story for all you nerds out there. A Geek Squad employee has been accused of using a cellphone to record a young woman taking a shower. Instead of fixing two computers like he was s

Five Ways Best Buy Ruined Geek Squad

Over at The Consumerist, a former Geek Squad employee has written in with a detailed explanation on why Geek Squad, well, sucks. After working at an Arizona-based location for nearly two years, this g

You Know Best Buy Sucks: Here's Another Reason Why

Oh Best Buy. We all know you and ESPECIALLY your damn Geek Squad division are both guilty of deceptive practices, but this is just too much. A dude by the name of Jorge goes and drops over $2000 on a