Located off of I-74 and Matthews Township Blvd, Best Buy is in a safe part of town with a few shopping options around the store to make a day with the family. The entrance, exit and the overall roads in this town center are horribly planned so remain alert when driving there. That said, going inside the pleasantries continue the downward trend. Stepping inside, one might notice that first of all, this Best Buy is small, thus less options. Moreover, as with most Best Buys now adays, directly in front of the shopper, you know where the DVDs, Blu rays, 4ks used to be to encourage impulse shopping, lies the multitude of cell phones. It's just baren and I noticed the staff isn't exactly engaging or being proactive. Perhaps that's just my personal issue. The phones are by far the best-selling points and have the most accessories. Please note the inventory of DYI items like wire, connectivity butts, odd length of HDMI cable and things of that nature have been scaled down. I strongly advise checking online if you don't like just browsing like me. Also, a lot of options in terms of computer mice, keyboards and things of that nature aren't as plentiful anymore. I mean, it's better than many other competitors but not what I remember of the golden age of Best Buy in the 2000s. As I stated, CDs, DVDs, 4ks and even a robust game selection for the major consoles is gone. Yes, they do carry a limited selection of games, most have been replaced by some odd toys like Funko Pop, Disney or something of the like. Come to think of it, I forgot to check on records! As for gaming consoles, they do have a selection of controllers, computers do have a few mice and keyboard options and the stereo selection is ok with a broad range of products in differing price ranges. I admit it, I miss things like a well-stocked Best Buy, Toys R Us, the mall, Barnes and Noble, Circuit City, Block Buster, Camelot Music and many other places. I liked to walk around but I knew they always had what I needed. We call things "progress" right now but it seems what's left of brick-and-mortar businesses don't put much effort into their own survival. The people at this Best Buy were ghosts when needed and for the first time ever, I left irritated. Their commitment to the customer has long gone and considering how carefree they are to service, then I'm not going back. Consider somewhere else before using this place as it's a last resort. read more

Best Buy with all of the first world problems going on, I even hate to bring this up up but I was in your Matthews, NC location today and stood in front a $1500 gaming pc which I wanted to purchase for 5-10 minutes (I've worked retail management and understand consumer time) but the area manager was too busy talking to an associate to acknowledge me out the other three people wandering around looking for help. I informed the security at the door as I went home and ordered it online. Thank you for the personal attention I sought. read more

I hav been to this location several times since I moved to Charlotte. I feel that Best Buy is like radio shack or circuit city. They are in a shared parking lot with plenty of parking. There are a lot of items or a wide selection. The prices are high so shop around. When you enter you are greeted by security and an employee at the desk. They must have experienced some serious theft as they are hawks. They moved the checkout to the side of the store. A lot of people working but not many can assist. Good luck! read more

Had my computer serviced on 9/11/25. The technician was friendly, diagnosed my problem quickly, walked me through it, and the parts that I would need to replace. The whole process was about 20 mins. Thanks, Best Buy! read more

Terrible! Avoid at all costs. Antiquated and expect them to be dead in a few years. Trade in is horrific. They told me to just put all my Mac data on a jump drive Thanks to their stupidity, Apple just made more profit. read more

Worst customer service I have ever had the displeasure of. I was sent a defective unit and spent 90 minutes on the phone trying to get this unit returned only to be hung up on by a supervisor or supposed supervisor. read more

I placed an online order for store pickup. Pickup was fast and easy. No complaints. Text message came a day earlier than expected.

November 2018 I like the products of this store. However, since my last review and my 5/6 visits in 2018 - I'll have to join the masses in agreeing with the poor reviews (2 stars) ... Employees at the customer service desk look pissed and bothered that you got in line at the desk. No greeting and not helpful. Basically, you are just another customer that they can give a rat's ass about . Management, get some upbeat and eager to help and please employees versus the the saps there now. read more

Best Buy - May 28, 2018 - Electronics Near Me - Matthews, North Carolina

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Clearly based on the rating in Yelp this negative review is going to be somewhat redundant. Nonetheless, I feel it's important to comment. This negative review is by no means a reflection on the staff at the store I visited. It is directed at the short-sighted policy changes implemented by the current CEO, Corrie Barry. I purchased Total Tech Care early in 2019. I was sold on the service by the associate telling me that I could get a newly purchased radio and back-up camera installed for free. And at that time they were even installing equipment bought someplace other than Best Buy. They then changed the policy a short time later to only installing equipment bought at Best Buy. I can understand that. Now, that service has been eliminated. I was going to buy another backup camera for $140.00. But the cost to have it installed would be another $150.00. I was told the new CEO continues to reduce services as a cost-cutting measure. But if you need to cut costs because sales are falling off the last place you want to do it is for services that draw customers in. That's just basic common sense. Clearly, Ms. Barry has no idea how to restore the faith people once had in Best Buy, which has been declining since she took over. read more

After closing the location on Independence Blvd, they re-opened a nearby location that used to be a Circuit City in Matthews. You can't really see the store from Independence, but once you take the Matthews (hwy51) exit and travel east - like you are heading toward Butler High School, it will come up on your left (Sycamore Commons) where the Costco, Lowes, and other shopping places are. Since they recently renovated this place, it's pretty nice and they have that new check-out line that all BestBuys have where it seems like they funnel u in and then there's a queue to the next available register (with a ton of impulse buys in front of your face the entire time while you are waiting in line). I don't think it was a bad move on BestBuy's part since they got a new store... but it's a little hard to find if you aren't looking for it. Not that I go to BestBuy every day, but at least I know where to go if I am not shopping online for my electronic needs. read more

They closed for remodeling and re opened with a staff that is mor rude and a store that is less clean. My husband ordered a game to be picked up and the woman was rude, the box was damaged and we found out at home it was EMPTY!! The woman helping a customer next to us was dancing as she helped her customer but not in an inclusive way but rather a she may be high way and treated her customer rudely with a question and then made the poor woman feel bad. The women's restroom had one working toilet and no paper towels. For a store that went through a remodel, it's smaller and dirtier than it was before and the workers are less professional. If you are a manager, it's time to train. read more

Do not go to this Best Buy, between now (8/15/21 and sometime in September) unless you are only going to pick up a Pre-Ordered item or you confirm it's actually reopened. It does not say it on the website, but this location is closed inside for renovations til sometime in September. I drove 18 minutes to get here because the store site says it's open til 7pm. I've watch multiple cars drive up, people get out and walk to the store front, only to be told it's closed inside. That's a lot of customers being surprised and frustrated. The nearest Best Buy is another 20-25 minutes drive. Best Buy - update your site with this temporarily close nfo! read more

I had to buy a new TV and purchased one at this Best Buy. I had some issues ordering it online and the team members were more than helpful when I got to the store. While I was waiting for the TV, I was asked by 3 different team members if I needed help with anything. The team members brought the TV out to my car and loaded it for me. Everyone was very friendly and kind! read more

Best Buy - Entrance to Best Buy - Electronics Near Me - Matthews, North Carolina

Came here to check out to see if they sold the Mac computers, because I was looking to buy one even if it wasn't at this store. When I get in, I only see iPads... Interesting. I go up to a couple of employees and ask do the sell Mac computers here, and they said no. Then one of the employees continued to explain why. The explanation was the funniest. He went into a rant about how the area here and the demographics didn't have a high enough income to afford macs. Points to him sounding smart, but sometimes if you want a customer this isn't the way to say it...that everyone is poor for this "luxury." read more

Worst customer service ever. Husband had his appt. at 12:40 for iPhone repair. They said it would take about and hour and half, but gave him an appt. time of 7pm (because they had to put a time in the computer), but said to come back when we got the txt that it was done. Came back when they texted at 2:15pm (we grabbed lunch next door). Here we sit at 3pm because they've decided they aren't obligated to give us the phone-OR EVEN INFORM OF US IF IT WAS FIXED- until 7pm. They are holding his phone hostage. It may not even be fixed-they won't tell us, so we don't even know if we need to make an appt. at the Apple store for further repairs. They have 4-5 people working and 2-3 that aren't even assisting customers. Seriously???? read more

My dad went in to ask about a service he thought he got from them. It turns out that he was a victim to fraud. When he asked the question, the employees laughed at him. I get that he was not smart in getting caught the way he did. However, I hope karma kicks them in the butt for being rude. read more

This store is full of scammers as I and a customer who just posted two hours before this one soon found out. They ordered a game and found out it was empty and in our case we ordered a tv and they claim someone came in with my wife's name on an ID. Said they had video and a license plate but didn't seem too alarmed about finding out who committed this fraud at their store. Said we couldn't see the video ourselves and the police will need a subpoena. ‍So they're throwing up roadblocks instead of trying to help the customer‍.Instead they were all too ready to suggest to file a dispute with PayPal and "you should get your money back". I'm not satisfied with that response. Seems as though somebody dropped the ball and didn't check ID or there are some crooked people behind the scenes at BestBuy. Best Buy, what a misnomer. Well, I'll just do like everyone else and order from Amazon. No wonder they aren't as many stores anymore. And apparently this location is full of shenanigans. Just look at all these negative reviews. ‍Get your together Best Buy Matthews before you get a visit from Jason Stogenke. Also, 0 stars is the true rating. read more

I started coming here to get what I thought was better service than Midtown but today's visit to simply showed the apathy is everywhere and it's cancerous. A simple charging cable replacement took too long as receipt look ups went on and on. Then I was given the wrong replacement as I asked for help to identify the item (I needed Dynex versus the Insignia that was handed over). Then, I decided to pick up more items since they were clearly marked $1.99 each cable and portable chargers. Honeyyyyyyy, at check out the cashier made it her business to call someone over the mic to verify this. They did so she needed a manager to handle the price change. No worries. She called someone. he was stopped by a customer on the way to me. How do I know? Nope, she didn't tell me. I overheard tell someone when she ASKED #2 to please handle the price change. That person, Katherine, walked right by and took a seat saying how "I think he doesn't want to handle it and take the hit." Then some man in a Black geek squad shirt appearing to be the Deputy of that team and I'm sure a manager of sorts came over and was told the story then proceeded to patronize me with "We will get it handled. Don't worry." but he never made an attempt to change the prices and handle things himself. This is laughable and insultuous. Because he went on to explain, "Oh these were the prices last week and I guess they didn't get around to updating things. But don't worry we will get you taken care of." I guess the final guy was the original guy that came over and marked 2 cables and 2 portable chargers all made by Dynex down from $7.99 to the posted $1.99 so I could be on my merrily little way. Cables: $1.99 Service: Dismissive and apathetic Time Wasted: insurmountably priceless. Why? I couple this trip with my last trip to Midtown on 4/23/17 to buy cables before driving across country and although I order the cables and car chargers online for pick up when I got to the empty store the workers were busier talking to themselves than pulling my order that someone took the time to pull and leave in a cart near the online pick up register. But no one printed the tags and they were missing items from my order saying I didn't order it. Later on, I got a cancellation email saying I never picked up the missing cables. Which by the way I was forced to find in the store and buy right there in order not to drive off without something to get me across the country. Yeah, I don't like having to do other people jobs. Hence, why I choose to skip Midtown #1108 as much as possible even though it's the closest to the residence. read more

This store consistently has the poorest customer service that I have ever experienced. The main problem is the Customer Service desk but it spilled over to the Geek Squad in my visit this past weekend. No customer service skills at all. They treated me like I was some kind of criminal. I was told by the person that was helping me from Apple.com to go to this Best Buy. Bad mistake because the headphones I bought in and had to replace last year had the same problem. The bottom line is this particular location is horrible in how they handle problems. They immediately come to there own conclusions without even listening or attempting to help. Last year I left this store and wen to the Ballantyne location which absolutely help me resolve the issue. read more

While we are trying to find someone to help us with a purchase there is a sales person on the phone who isn't allowed to help us. We stood there for thirty minutes while the person who said he will be right over went and helped another person. Then the person that did help us had to bring over another guy to answer all the questions about the install of our new radio Bluetooth screen. Maybe they are shooting for a one star rating. I don't think they care! read more

I bought a phone here and the mobile customer service person was very helpful. I tried to order the phone two times through bestbuy.com and also tried to purchase it at the Midtown Best Buy. Bestbuy.com kept cancelling my order because they could not pre-activate the phone with Sprint. The Midtown location would not give the same price as on the bestbuy.com website. The Matthews location was able to give me the same price as online and successfully activate the phone. read more

Very poor customer service. Went in the store to return an unopened item and the associate opened the item and attempted to charge a restocking fee for an item returned unopened. Very unprofessional associate. Manager ultimately resolved issue but it's not worth wasting your time coming to this store. This experience deterred me from shopping at Best Buy again unless they have something that can't be found elsewhere read more

Wow. Customer service - non existent. People standing around doing nothing but if you don't have an appointment at Geek Squad, they won't answer a simple question. Last time I will use them. read more

They worst customer service I have ever encountered in a Best Buy. I literally have $100s in my pocket to spend and walked by 6 different associates- on purpose to see if any would offer help or see if I needed anything. They barely looked up from the conversations they were having with each other. I will take my $$ somewhere else. read more

Really poor selection of every product. I went in for a receiver and they had one option. The employee warned me that this particular brand isn't very reliable so we explored online options which were pricey. Then I asked for help finding burnable DVDs and they don't sell them anymore, not even online. Decided to browse their selection of DVDs and was again very disappointed. The gentleman at the door and guy in the home theater section help me. I'm sorry to give all my business to Amazon now that Covid restrictions are lifted. read more

I have shopped with Best Buy for 15 years and this one just doesn't hit the mark. It never has a good selection of any products. Their movie section is almost completely bare. This is just my experience since I have moved to the area. Yesterday I returned an item and the customer service employee was very rude to me and acted as though they didn't want to help me in any way even though I was nice as could be. I work in customer service too, I know it is tough and there are bad days but this was the last straw for me. I will not be purchasing anymore products from them. As a long time supporter and customer I am fed up and will not plan on visiting this location for a long time. Amazon and target will be just fine for my needs. read more

Eek! Methinks 0 STARS is more fitting! Geek Squad plays dumb, had a TV to be repaired..took 4 weeks...they played dumb for 3 weeks...the tv came back and there was no box, just the remoted TAPED to the back. Not many friendly service people but the Wireless dept. is actually VERY fun and easy to work with...SURPRISING I know. read more

After my computer died I was in search for a new one. After visiting one other Best Buy, with much better service, my Dad wanted to get some other prices before making the purchase. We stopped at a few non-Best Buy stores, but realized they had the best deal. Being in the area of this location we decided to stop in to see if they had the same option and thought we could make the purchase instead of going back to the original Best Buy, bad move on our part. We headed straight to the 'Computer' section and NO ONE could be found. We waited, and waited, walked around, and waited. Finally a gentlemen arrived, who seemed like he was 13 years old. He had no knowledge of the computer we asking about and quoted the wrong price, the wrong options that came on the computer, and even what was included was the docking station. My father was getting frusturated by the minute. We finally got him to make a call and confirm all the details so we decided to move forward with the purchase. He never said a word to us other than answering our questions. A horrible experience and I plan to not return to this location, unless I am in the area. Electronic purchases can take time and I would like to know I have someone confident with what I am getting and this experience did not make me feel comfortable at all. read more

My boyfriend and I headed out to Best Buy to search for an Internet provider. We had visions of Yelp, Facebook and YouTube flying through our heads and were so excited that we would be able to hop online after leaving the store and hooking up our new doodad. Well we get there, and it's set up like I've never seen a Best Buy before. They are situated with a few other stores in a parking garage. The garage itself is enough to give these places a lower rating. By the time we got parked and dodged enough cars the thoughts of the Internet were replaced with road rage. It started out well once we walked into the store. We were browsing the mobile phone section and a lady walks right up to us, and is super helpful. We chatted about phones and then asked her about the Internet. She pointed us over to the area with all the shiny new modems and promises of me seeing Ihascheezburger.com or yelp, or www.paraadventures.com & www.facebook.com/ghost.hunts. (Shameless self promotion on the last two... haha) We wandered over to the Internet area and started our search. We looked for an associate and there were none free. No biggie, it was a Saturday and we knew it was going to be busy. We walked up to the Clear Wireless section where we'd heard a few things about. We wanted to speak to someone though to make sure they were in our coverage area. Well, we walked around, walked around some more, and then more....and more and more.. and still no associates to speak to. I took the box with the shiny new product in it and walked towards the front of the store. FINALLY a manager stops to greet me and I tell him that I'm just wanting to find out more about the internet. He walks back over with us and starts to research the coverage area, and he sees another associate and hands us off. That associate starts to activate the device and has issues. He tells us that we will have to go home to activate it. After being there for nearly two hours we are frazzled, but still excited to get home and hook up the internet. Well, we get home, and lo & behold we are not in their coverage area! GRRRR... talk about frustrated. I called the manager and she informed me that I should go with AT&T because they are much better and faster. We took the unit back, and did just that except we went to the actual AT&T store! After the frustration we had dealing with parking, the poor level of service and the misinformation with the internet, I honestly can't see myself heading there again for any reason in the near future. I'm a stickler for customer service and theirs basically sucked. Boo. read more

Man theres was plenty of people here today, o was greeted at the door, pple asking of I needed help, more then once. Seem pretty staff and helpful today. Only thing is I didnt decide to buy today. If this floor reps was more skilled they would have influenced me to buy something. If they do more then just ask If I needed help and ask more open question and fond out what I'm there for maybe we would got into a con of buying. Must not be commission base pay. Bet if It was they be all on me and help me decide what yo buy, I'm not there to just look I want to buy but some customers need that push to spend money..great job other wise..I will definitely be back. I took a few pictures of what I may want to buy for xmas read more

I would give negative stars if I could. On April 16th, 2022 at 2:00 pm-ish. I went looking for a hard drive cable. No one was willing to take time to talk to me about my search. I was pushed online to get me to get out of the store. The guy at the front couldn't give a crap and condescendingly pushed me to the Xbox area. A sextagenarian in the Xbox area hurriedly pushed me to the Google phone side of the store. One guy tried to upsell me to an item I didn't need, hurriedly. I left feeling I should sell all my Best Buy stock! Horrible people, policy, and management. it was a multi-person effort at atrocious service. I never write reviews but writs this one before I left the parking lot. read more

This best buy SUCKS I called on the phone and they had me waiting for a long time! People that work here ARE LAZY and SLOW! Go to a different best buy!! read more

Employees are nice enough but the store is severely understaffed. Bought a laptop the other night and was rushed through the process by an associate just trying to get to the next customer. Wanted a new laptop, a Lenova brand, but they didn't have one in stock. Associate said they had an "open box" available and that it would be fine and work the same as buying it new. It was SUPER glitchy from the second I turned it on and it crashed every 10-15 minutes. The return process was easy but I'm still out a laptop and now am weary to get one through Best Buy at all and will probably look elsewhere for my next one. read more

Got the "Total Tech Support" package from BB. Arranged to have a TV installed...they said I need an electrician...another $250 on top of "Total Tech Support"...cha ching. Guys showed up to install TV...only problem is they didn't have the TV...didn't know where it was...didn't pick it up. I had to pick it up the next day even thought they said they'd deliver. A COMPLETELY UNCOORDINATED operation...no TV, I needed an electrician and even though I made appointment next day for somewhere between 12pm-4pm, they show up at 7pm. Trying to think of what else could have gone wrong...only thing would be they drop the TV while installing it when they finally get here in 30 minutes. Makes me feel like the Three Stooges runs this place. A complete joke! Never again and I'd avoid anything to do with "service" at Best Buy. Just buy what you need and run out of there as fast as you can!!! read more

It was the day of my mothers funeral and I had prepared a mini movie on a visual/audio projector. It had stopped working. I rushed over to Best Buy for help and ran to the back of the store where I had gotten help before. I was in tears, I was burying my mother in a few hours and I needed this machine to work for the funeral service. I had worked on my mini movie for weeks. I was pretty sure it was the connection and not the machine itself. The young man at the TV section named Chris was very empathetic and eager to help. He brought me straight over to Geek Squad with my machine and told the lady there how dire my predicament was. She just stood there leaning against her counter saying "if you dont have an appointment I cant help you." No customer was with her. I cried, begged, told her I needed this fixed for my mothers funeral in couple hours would she at least just LOOK because I thought it was the cord, not the machine. Could she just check it with a new connection cord. She didn't move from her leaning spot, "I cant look at it without an appointment. its not gonna get fixed today anyhow. We don't that right here, you know, that has to be sent out. Its gonna be at least a few weeks." And she continued to lean just looking at me, obviously didnt give 2 turds about me or my problems...she seemed to enjoy the fact that she had the power to crush my soul like that. I turned to Chris and said could he please TRY to help, that I really thought it was the connecting cord and could he please look. He was so kind and understanding, and said understood because he's been through it and he would do the best he could. He went searching for a cord and he tested it right there in the store with my machine and it worked! it was an sigh of relief like no other Ive ever had. CHIS WAS MY ANGEL THAT DAY! he deserves a that full 5 star rating, he deserves a promotion and a raise! The leaning Geek Sqaud lady deserves negative 5 black soul stars. read more

This location only has 2-in-1 laptops on display. There's no Ultrabooks either. So you may want to try somewhere else if you're looking for a traditional clamshell laptops read more

This location has the rudest customer service. I came in looking for an Apple Pencil and was brushed off by multiple employees who didn't care to even answer my questions. read more

I had a great experience at this store. I bought a tv online that I had trouble with due to my own ignorance. The young lady in the customer service department was great when I asked for a replacement. She helped me on three occasions, and was kind and caring. The gentleman in electronics who helped me select a tv was awesome and they even carried it out and put it the car for me. I wish I knew names so I could praise each one individually. This was a great experience and I have never met nicer employees. I would recommend this Matthews store to everyone. read more

They only have a 15 day return policy. There are many other alternatives at the same pricing with 30-60-90 day return policies. There is now no reason to shop at this place. read more

I like Best Buy, at least in theory: I'm a huge gadget geek, so how could I not? Unfortunately, despite the fact that this location is both relatively new and just down the street from my home, I come away disappointed almost every time I visit. The employees are slow. I mean, S. L. O. W. You ask a question, you get a vague nod, and if you're lucky, you'll see that blue shirt again in about forty-five minutes. One redeeming quality is that they'll adjust the in-store price if it's higher than their online price. They get an extra star for this, since this courtesy saved me several dollars the last time I visited. read more