“If you walk through a Guitar Center, you see an awful lot of $300 guitars. If I’m a serious musician, it doesn’t feel like the right place for me anymore”: Guitar Center’s new CEO explains why the firm’s future must prioritize premium guitars
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Gabe Dalporto insists the firm needs to “evolve and execute better” in order to survive, and that it has forgotten who its core customer really is

Whenever I see the phrase “an awful lot of…” I find it’s almost always reversable.

“you see an awful lot of $300 guitars”

but also:

“you see a lot of awful $300 guitars”

  • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I don’t think it’s at all about the price point of the guitars but the expertise of the people working there. I don’t go to a guitar center to just buy a guitar. I go there to find expertise about which guitar to buy after a little conversation with a knowledgeable employee who can direct me to what I need.

    I don’t go to Best Buy anymore because they went the wrong way. Instead of hiring the best most knowledgeable people, they hire bottom of the barrel monkeys that could not help me if they studied for 10 years.