Comment Re:Corporate Duality (Score 1) 198
In one of the stores which is closing, there as a Best Buy and a Future Shop right across the street. So you shop at one and then go across a crosswalk to the other one.
They've always had mostly the same stock, and at mostly the same price.
I'm told the difference was Future Shop had commissioned (and therefore more annoying) salesman, while Best Buy wasn't on commission. I often found hard to get items were more likely to be stocked at Future Shop instead of Best Buy.
Many of us have always thought it quite stupid that the same chain always had two stores in many places, since nobody thought of them as competing.