Peterborough Writer Tweets His Fury To Future Shop & Best Buy About His Computer

Friday, it was business as usual at Future Shops across Canada with consumers going into the store and making their purchases and such.

Peterborough-based freelance writer Philip Preville was one of them. He took his computer into the Peterborough location Friday for repairs. Saturday, he learned—along with the rest of consumers across Canada—that Future Shops were closing across the country, including Peterborough, which will be converted into a Best Buy.

Now Future Shop, and their parent company Best Buy, obviously knew the plan. But consumers didn't. Logically, Preville wouldn't have brought his computer into the store Friday to be fixed if he had known what was what about to go down.

Preville is self-employed. He relies on his computer to work, to make money. He needs his computer back. Read his tweet exchanges below to Best Buy and Future Shop—it's all so confusing who to even direct tweets to—about being got caught during a massive rebranding...

Now let's hope for a Hollywood ending that Preville can write about it—and tweet about—on his fixed computer Monday morning.

Because customer service is everything for corporations, right?

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Future Shop In Peterborough Closing, Best Buy To Open In Its Place

All Future Shops are closing across Canada, consolidating under the Best Buy brand (Future Shop's parent company). The Peterborough store has already closed, with surprised customers showing up on Saturday to the notice on the store doors.

A store spokesperson in Peterborough tells us it will re-open as a Best Buy on April 4th.

***The store will be renovated and rebranded as a Best Buy.

We do not know the status of employees at this time, and whether they retain their jobs under the Best Buy brand. Tip us.

Notice on FutureShop.ca website

Notice on FutureShop.ca website

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