Okay, so, This probably isn't at all CC's, because some are laid out wayyy better than this one. I decided I wanted to go for the Toshiba laptop today, so at 8:30pm (yes, I'm crazy), I get in line. I was 2nd in line, so I knew I'd get a voucher... Anyways, It got down to about 13 degrees over the night, and people had a bonfire in line to keep warm, but I was still freezing my ass off, but happy because I was #2. Then at around 3am, all sorts of people started showing up towards the front of the line because people were 'holding their spots' all night long. That started a few debates, but nothing serious, until the CC employees came out at about 4 with the vouchers. I got my laptop voucher (they had 18), but alot of pissed off people didn't. We were told to sign up for the AOL rebate, we were to go to car audio installation room, and if we didn't purchase by 9am, our laptop was going to be sold...
So at about 4:45, they put donuts out right inside the doors for us which was cool, but I was too cold to eat. Then all hell broke loose when people decided to drive up, and jump to the front of the line to get in. People started yelling, but no fights that I saw.
Then the doors opened, we went in calmly, and when we got to the installation room for our AOL rebate, NO ONE WAS THERE. We had to find an employee to get some one in there to get us going. Then finally ONE employee started helping us (we had 18 people in line with laptop vouchers, and many more for the eMachine).... We were told there would be a dedicated checkout line for us, but there wasn't. We had to wait in line while the horrible employees took their sweet time checking everyone out, in order to pay.. This CC was an older one, and the layout was in a circle, so the checkouts were all over. The store was one giant checkout line starting at 5:15. I waited in a checkout line for almost 2 hours, only to have the guy try to tell me the AOL rebate was a mail-in. Finally he called a manager over, and the manager fixed the mistake but acted as if I should have just paid the $450.
...THen once again, off to another line. This time to pick up the laptop. That line took about 30 minutes, and I got out of that place.
I have never seen more lazy employees on BF. There were plenty of workers, but they were standing around doing NOTHING. And the ones who were working the registers were slow as hell, because they decided to stop and chit chat with everyone they came in contact with, including other employees. People were very mad when they waited in line for over and hour to find out the register was credit card/check only. There were no signs on most of the registers to show this, so people had no way of knowing. I'm definitely not going back to that CC next year. The manager didn't care about the customers. All he was worried about was taking pictures of us waiting in line at 4am.