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If he plays video games, old people love Best buy. I work with a lot of old people and they almost exclusively only go to Best buy. These are people with net worth of tens and hundreds of millions of dollars and they love Best buy. They f****** adore it.
Every weird gadget, speaker, TV, electronic video game, anything rich people get it for them Best buy. Cuz to a lot of older people and a lot of the rich Best buy is seen as the upscale option. It's convenient, it's right there and the interiors of the stores are usually nice enough to not scare them off.
And old people do play video games. He could have gone to buy office too. Almost every older retired rich person. I know if they need to get office Photoshop or any other software they go to Best buy. Hell, some of the personal assistance for some of these people are sent explicitly to Best buy to go get boxed copies of software for their clientele.
Most of the time if someone needs a new macbook or laptop or phone they also go to Best buy for them.
If an old person needs something. Techy the only place they know to go that's still operates in most places is Best buy.
So you would probably be really surprised. Just how likely it is an old rich white dude in California goes to Best buy.