Fry’s and Wal-Mart can pick up the slack for best buy IMO, but interesting, I was in Fry’s last week to buy a 42″ flat screen to replace the 52″ that died, they seemed really happy to see me buy something (anything!!), had 3 guys tripping over themselves to help me, even escorted me up to the cash register.
Looked online but it was like one third the price just to have it shipped, so online buying big items does not work IMO.