Comments on: A bunch of geeks at the Future Shop Park Royal opening

By: Restaurant review - Browns Social House (West Vancouver) « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:01:47 +0000

[...] the Future Shop Park Royal re-opening, a bunch of us went to Browns Social House for dinner (I think the original thought was just a [...]

By: Testing Flickr embedding on WP.com « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:09:41 +0000

[...] Testing Flickr embedding on WP.com August 13, 2008 Posted by Raul in geekifying myself. Tags: Flickr, geeky, wordpress trackback Danny suggested that I could embed Flickr videos, and since I like to do my own stunts, I am going to test whether they work. So, if they DO work, below you’ll find a couple of videos of our dinner at Browns Social House, after the reopening of Future Shop Park Royal. [...]

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:23:40 +0000

@kimli, @gusf No problem, I’ll add you guys to the list.

By: Future Shop Park Royal highlights the connected home and tech coolness | Tech life | A View from the Isle

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:43:13 +0000

[...] Last night I had the chance to check out the newly renovated Future Shop at Park Royal in West Van with Darren Barefoot and other groovy Vancouver techie people (props to Raul for getting a post off so early–A bunch of geeks at the Future Shop Park Royal opening « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Enviro…). [...]

By: GusF

GusF — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:08:54 +0000

Sounds like a great time you all had and a great write up Raul. Sorry I couldn’t participate at the event.

By: kimli

kimli — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:59:27 +0000

Man – how do I get invited to these things? I’m a geek of the highest nature, plus an obsessive blogger to boot. AND I’m on the North Shore, and that FS is my “home” store. Add me to that list please, Darren!

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:44:53 +0000

Great write-up, Raul–thanks for that.

@Tyler: As I understand it, Future Shop has a number of ‘connectivity experts’ who are non-commissioned, and specifically intended to answer shoppers’ questions without pressure to sell.

I’ll invite you to future events along these lines if you’re interested.

By: Tyler Ingram

Tyler Ingram — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:36:04 +0000

I went there to pick up my Canon XSi and the guy couldn’t stop telling me about the camera I already knew about. I just said.. Hey.. I’ll make this simple.. I want the camera, just ring it up. lol

The renovations are nice as I’ve dropped into the store a few times during them.

Unless they have changed their business model they were always on a ‘commission’ system. They earn a base wage and then commission, if their commission is higher than their base wage they get their commission only, if not they get their base wage and frowned upon. Or so it was when I worked for FutureShop.

Now being a sister company of BestBuy I don’t see what the point is if they are now both non-commission.

Nonetheless it looks like it was a fun reopening of their store. Wish i knew about it lol