[quote name='Vector']The BBY's in my area are all sorts of wonky. Near the end of last summer they all did away with the loss prevention employees and even went ahead and removed their stations in front of the stores. Then around the holiday season they all just magically sprung back up as though nothing happened with all new employees.[/QUOTE]
They got rid of the Loss Prevention employees that just stand there at the door, but they are still around at my store, they are just roaming around now, helping customers and keeping an eye out for thieves. This was probably a little bit after X-mas. Only because I shop there often and know most of the staff I asked about it after coming in for a return and was confused when there was nobody at the station to tag my goods as a return before I headed to Customer Service.
The main downside is when I do trade-in games there I have to go flag someone down where before I would just tell the employee at the entrance to call for someone for me, since there is never anyone there as it seems they don't promote trade-ins enough at my store.
I thought the new construction would be something worthwhile for me, but all that Samsung area did was take up more real estate in the PC area and shifted the software section to the outskirts of the store where they have the overflow of stock at my Best Buy.