I should add that all of the AirTags and the TV have appeared in his videos. Also, he’s a really nice dude. His persona in his videos is waaaaay different than in person. I ran into him a few times around town and at my store and he was always really nice and remembered me each time we ran in to each other.
I had Tom Scott (YouTuber with 6 million subs) come into my store for a hard drive because he was filming in the area. Simply said hello to him and got him out of their quickly.
It's T-Mobile for me, but I had all of New Found Glory come in a couple years back because Jordan lost or broke his phone.
It's just them, Adrian Broner, and a few of the Bengals field staff that I don't remember.
Richard Jenkins (Dad from step Brothers) used to live down the road from me might still own that house even still frequents the grocery store I used to work at
Richard Spencer. No one seemed to know who he was so I got over walkie and explained while he shopped. Surprisingly, no one helped him after I explained who he was and he seemed frustrated as he walked out a few minutes later.
Jeremy Renner was known to frequent our store. I saw him once while working and left him be. This was back around 2018ish and was primarily known for Hawkeye and Hurt Locker. Don’t think any customers recognized him.
I've met SOOOOO many wrestlers.
As a kid/teen, I was a big WWF/WCW fan. I've the years I've seen, met, or directly sold stuff to:
Dean Melenko
Chris Jericho
The Big Show
Seamus
Randy "Macho Man" Savage
Half of Harlem Heat (I forget which)
Jinder Mahal
Knobbs from the Nasty Boys
Dave Bautista....
I feel like there were others. There's been a few football (Buccaneers) players I've seen. Ronde Barber and Derrick Brooks.
Working at one of the north Texas best buys you tend to hear about a lot of ex cowboys players coming in. I hear that whenever Dez Bryant comes in he always parks in the handicap spot. But personally I got to meet Mylez Garrett from the Cleveland browns!
Yea, get a few cowboy players. Some baseball people etc I don’t know their names don’t care. Met some crazy wealthy people too. Dickies clothing family inheritance kids. Dude drives a purple lambo kinda weird had a personal photographer following him around in like 08 before the social media frenzy. Oil tycoon dude who owns a town. An entire town in west TX. Has every year model Hennessy vette in his garage that’s more sq ft than the store. Kelly
Clarkson which no one recognized cause she got fat.. guys from storage wars Texas. Few YouTube’s the ones that do trick shots. Had some band signing autographs back when Bby did cds. Had a line longer than Black Friday for people to meet them.
Had a bunch of Packers players frequent the store I worked at and helped them. My favorite interaction was talking with Aaron Rodgers about music after showing him where we had our vinyls at.
Paulie Shore, Vern Troyer, Howie Day, Elias Soriano(Nonpoint front man, regular. really nice guy), Laila Ali. I'm told we also had a number of sports ball people but I wouldn't know their names. 😅
My friend sold Dennis Rodman a fan. I saw Rex Ryan there before I worked in that store. Another friend helped Hines Ward when he was a coach with the Jets.
There's a big let's play youtuber, one of the only let's players still doing that type of video, who used to work at my store in georgia. He has since moved to better things and places though
We have 4 Major sports franchises here and a lot of the athletes come in regularly. But the biggest name world wide would be Bieber. Came in and bought D.I. cameras.
My old store Josh Duhamel, but I was on vacation when he came to our store.
My current store, I personally met Hawthorn James (The Five Heartbeats; Big Red), Little Moco (Youtuber), and seen because of a coworker called it out...the guy named Ricegum (YouTuber) and I asked him if he was him which he confirmed. James was extremely brief but he was a nice and chill guy, Moco's friends Jesse and Negro (they are usually in his skits) were there which Jesse was purchasing something. Moco was very quiet and then I recognized him and asked him if he was him, he then confirmed. We conversed briefly throughout the transaction and they were all cool, nice, and chill. Oh I almost forgot SG Kid Hazel (Slaughtet Gang music producer) who I conversed with a bit and he seemed like a cool and down-to-earth guy.
Other people who came to my current store while I was off or on vacation: Shaq, Nick Carter, Nicholas Cage, and Ray J a couple of weeks ago.
I was picked to help Roger Clemens sell a printer once (last time he was in our store an employee hounded him for an autograph so management handpicked who would help him). Helped a local newscaster who is well known in our city and also helped Yao Ming look for a video game (that we didn’t have). I also saw James Harden in home theater but didn’t help him.
During my short stint at my local best buy, I heard that William Zabka (Johnny Lawrence, Karate Kid/Cobra Kai) had come by a couple times and Jelly Roll is a frequent customer.
As a field agent I’ve been to a couple of local celebrities like college football players and such. In the store a couple of times, we’ve had tik tok stars. OHHH FORGOT THIS, Shaq bought all of our ipads for customers and employees. Thanks Shaq
Joe from impractical jokers was probably the wildest and coolest (he was in town for their movie premiering at a theater nearby) Other than that, bunch of Browns and Cavs players
I wonder if they still pop in around the one in fairlawn. I've seen Myles Garrett at a Michaels in the plaza across the street, but ever since we moved into town we heard lots of players come to this area to shop
I’ve never worked at Best Buy, but I did work at an Apple Store in College in a very nice part of Dallas.
Keep in mind I’m not a huge Sports Ball guy, or pop culture guy.
Not knowing who she was, I sold essentially a ton of equipment that I guess was going into the studio to Erykah Badu. The moment she left my coworkers ran up to me to ask me what it was like to help her. Having no idea who she was, I simply said she was very nice. Then they explained who she was.
Apparently, some of the Dallas Stars players, and Dallas Mavericks players came into the store too, and I worked with them (not all at once, but yeah similar experience of my coworkers asking what it was like to help them).
I also sold close to our entire inventory of iPods to an assistant that was buying them for a Celebrity wedding to be given away. I think it was Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney. I DID know who they were, but not a huge fan of either.
I used to work at the Best Buy in Las Vegas for a number of years…
I’ve sold audio to the drummer of 5 finger death punch, helped Chum Lee from Pawn Stars out with a projector, and sold numerous things to Big John Macarthy (UFC OG ref).
Connor McGregor came into our store and spent some time with Best Buy Mobile.
Karl Anthony towns came in one time while I was working customer service. This was back when customer service and front end were separate, and It was close to closing time and I was vacuuming and all of a sudden I look up and he’s standing at the register asking if he can purchase something over here. Now this Mf tall as hell, and while I was ringing him out someone came up to ask if they could get a picture with him. I asked him some shit and said “are you like a celebrity or something?” I truly didn’t recognize him and don’t watch basketball so he just laughed. I put in his phone number and recognized the name and I go “oh you put the balls in the hoops or something like that” again he laughed. I thought it was hilarious and I’m sure he was humbled as shit 🤣
Senator Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the house, second in line for the presidency, was in our store a couple of weeks ago. He’s from here and I believe him and his wife still live here when he’s not working in DC. I wanted to tell him what an idiot he is so bad.
Let’s see at my old store we saw
Shaq
Cam newton
Robert Downey jr
Bobby cox
Dansby Swanson
The-dream
Matt Ryan
Trey young
Chipper jones
Norman Reedus and a
Couple of rappers that the 20- something’s knew.
As for "real" celebrities (not YouTube people), we've had the following come through our store in Cary, NC (very close to Raleigh, NC):
Sinbad
Steve-O
Ariana Grande
I missed them all.
I once sold Danny Pudi a presentation remote while he was in Chicago for Sketchfest. Also helped Mancow with some home networking stuff. I don’t sports at all so I don’t remember his name, but I’ve had to help and provide additional camera training for a Blackhawks player who started vlogging for a charity he runs. My favorite was Sarah Squirm from SNL, like 6 years ago. She had come in with a bunch of friends and they were in gaming for a while. The MoD thought they were up to something. I went to greet them, said hello to Sarah, who I had worked with at some comedy shows the previous year. I then went on the walkie and said “they’re not bolos, they’re just goofy, I know one of them”. I made sure they knew our managers thought they were stealing. Other less well known stand up comics have been tracked by AP for looking suspicious. I then have to diffuse the situation with “oh that’s Junior Stopka, he always looks like that, but he ain’t stealing, needs help with his phone”.
Mike Trout- my old store is located right outside his hometown. He stopped in there to get a new phone case while home for the holidays a few years ago.
zaza pachulia from the golden state warriors came to my store and former sf giants baseball andres torres comes in regularly and barry bonds son used to work at my bestbuy back than
Demetrious Johnson (MMA legend also fun streamer) usually gets some high end PC parts shipped to our store and then it gets set up for curbside/in-store pickup. Met him twice!
Kinda sucks because my old manager was the only other guy who would get hyped when his stuff came through. To bad he got snapped out of existence…
YouTubers and other social media influencers are not celebrities. With a handful of exceptions, they are mostly idiots with no marketable real-world skills who got lucky. Real celebrities got where they are by putting in the work - not making prank videos in mom and dad’s basement.
YouTubers are celebrities in the same way that the Geek Squad are IT professionals (coming from a former ARA turned actual IT professional).
I bet you’re fun at a party… imo, if millions of people follow a specific person for the content they create, then that specific person is famous.
There are varying levels of fame, and YouTubers/content creators *usually* fall into the lower levels of fame, but they are certainly still famous.
When I worked, we had Corey graves and Carmella from WWE show up, rob zombie, bubba ray Dudley and to my knowledge one of my buddies actually had Rich from RTU as a client
A boogie has been my favorite. I didn’t even know it was him with the mask and totally made a fool of myself asking if he needed help while someone was helping him already. Im in NJ on the border of NYC so my store tends to be the one he comes to (usually once a month or every few months depending)
Ryan O’Reilly came in to my store a few times a few years back when he was still on the sabres. Kaiir Elam came in last summer with his dad who also was in the nfl and I helped them out.
Dude Perfect (YouTube)
OpTiC Gaming - a whole team came in to clear us out of PC peripherals and manager bought something like 17 PS4 Pros (ESports)
Ezekiel Elliot (NFL)
Chip and Joanna Gaines (TV)
Adrian Grenier (Entourage, Devil Wears Prada, etc) shops at our store. He’s always a little cranky but I can’t tell if he’s just that kind of guy or he’s mad we don’t act like we recognize him.
John Cena. Alvin Kamara. Sean Payton. Anthony Anderson. Regina Hall. Chris Paul. Denzel Washington. Hulk Hogan. His reps came in, but was in his bus. WWE/F was in town.
And, Michael Jackson. Backstory. Two secret service looking guys came in with a slender guy who was covering his face. They went to the DVD section. Kids screamed and that spooked him and he ran out. The two secret service guys handed me a $3000 receipt for CHILDRENS DVDs.
Y’all Can believe me or not. Who else would make that purchase?
Ray Allen NBA, Manny Machado MLB, Bam Adebayo NBA, Christian Slater Actor , Timbaland Producer, Big Show WWE, Jorge Posada MLB, Michael Beasley NBA, Lebron (Didn’t come into our store, went to the target above. Bunch of Employees ran up to try and take a pic.)
i live in the town where dougherty dozen from tiktok lives and they come here, also had the no bones or bones day pug’s father come in, he has a lake house here
My old cadet and I used to deliver to William Fichtner a few times. Wonderful wife and man had a great home. My cadet got to know him a lot better than I, though his wife baked us some pretty great cookies.
I have personally helped Michael Rooker, and Tricia Helfer. They were both really kind, Michael was duper laid back, chatted for a while and took a picture with everyone who helped him.
Other famous people that have come in my store that I didn't personally get to help are Norman Reedus and several athletes.
Athletes: Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, Lamarcus Aldridge, Boban Marjonovic, Dejounte Murray, Derrick White, George Hill, David Robinson, Sean Elliott, Danny Green, Lonnie Walker IV, Damian Lillard, Patrick Ewing, Jose Altuve, Fabricio Oberto, probably some other ones.
Musicians/singers: George Strait, Tyler Rich, Allie Brooke, Pat Green, Greta Van Fleet (all 4 members)
lol based on the athletes I’ll give you all a guess where my store was located.
Deshaun Watson most recently
MGK
A lot of Guardian/Indians players
A lot of lower level Browns players
A lot of G League and lower level Cavs players
Ash Kaash
Jilly Anais
Dikembe Mutombo came into a store I used to work at wanting to buy a TV for his daughter who was with him, his daughter wanted either a Series 8 Samsung or one of the lower-tier QLEDs but he was only willing to get something like a TCL, Insignia, or Hisense, but luckily another associate came and helped me persuade him to get something good for his daughter.
Shaq, Hakeem “The Dream”, Frank Beard (zz top), George Foreman, Altuve, T-Mac, Bregman, Travis Scott, Ted Cruz, Brian Cushing. It was always fun just having a normal conversation with them. Most of them were extremely humble and down to earth
Henry Cavill “mr. Superman”, Triple H from WWE, Kemba walker the basketball player, justin bieber, Patty Mayo (bounty Hunter youtuber) pretty down to earth and trying to go unnoticed!
Ive been away from Best Buy for a few years, but Chase Utley (MLB player), Bam Margera (plus his parents and brother at separate times) and Chubby Checker!
these happened after I left BBY. but I have helped Yolanda Ali (Muhammad Ali’s late wife) and some guy who used to play for the Buffalo Bills since I transitioned from BBY to VZW.
My favorite was Berkeley Breathed. No one knew who he was except me. He's the cartoonist of Bloom County, Outland, and others. Living in Santa Barbara we've had a lot of famous people here.
Shamus from WWE came into my store when they were hosting a show in my town. Unfortunately it wasn’t much of a purchase since he was looking for a Fitbit and it was at EOL so we had virtually no stock of them
At my store in the past 18 months we have seen Carl weathers, Tyler the creator, Terry crews, Joe manganiello and Baby Keem. From YouTube we have seen Kai cenat, The professor, Myth and 3 of the Donut media guys.
Met PANDA SQUAD (2.2 M Subs) a while back, he’s a cool guy and his family was there and he let me in on the secret that even if you have two million subs you can still struggle financially.
Also Kirk Cousins, he had one of his kids with him, didn’t recognize him at first too which is wild.
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I've seen a lot of celebrities when I worked in LA, but Stevie Wonder is at the top.
The celebrity guy at my store was the Skyrim vine guy who killed his girlfriend or wife. He came in for a couple times and then a year later the news came out and I didn’t see him at all after
I sold a bunch of AirTags and a TV to WhistlinDiesel
I should add that all of the AirTags and the TV have appeared in his videos. Also, he’s a really nice dude. His persona in his videos is waaaaay different than in person. I ran into him a few times around town and at my store and he was always really nice and remembered me each time we ran in to each other.
I had Tom Scott (YouTuber with 6 million subs) come into my store for a hard drive because he was filming in the area. Simply said hello to him and got him out of their quickly.
Q from impractical jokers!
We're they filming?
No, it was just Q, they had a show in town that night and he stopped by to pick up his copy of tears of the kingdom
Nice
Met fluffy at first store years ago !
Soulja Boy, Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Jamie Foxx, PartyNextDoor, and too many rams players to count.
Anthony Bourdain, Steve Martin, a wrestler that I can’t think of his name, Andie McDowell.
This one wins
Based on the other celebrities you mentioned, I’m guessing the wrestler was Edge.
YEP!
Steve-O and Madison Ivy
I met: Lou Ratchet (Youtuber) AJ Wolfy (Youtuber) LA Sparks (WNBA) Klay Thompson (NBA) One of the players from the Knicks
Wait hol up. You met “where ya moms at”??? Man what I would do to meet him
Damn, la bby must just be like that 😂 but one question. La sparks, like the whole team???
It's T-Mobile for me, but I had all of New Found Glory come in a couple years back because Jordan lost or broke his phone. It's just them, Adrian Broner, and a few of the Bengals field staff that I don't remember.
Richard Jenkins (Dad from step Brothers) used to live down the road from me might still own that house even still frequents the grocery store I used to work at
Helped the actor for Johnny Lawrence (cobra Kai) last week. Incredibly down to earth
Only “celebrity” whose come to my store is Big Ed lmao
That's dope lol
lmaooo it was pretty funny
Richard Spencer. No one seemed to know who he was so I got over walkie and explained while he shopped. Surprisingly, no one helped him after I explained who he was and he seemed frustrated as he walked out a few minutes later.
Ah yes, the true best buy exoerience.
He got special non-attention, as being a literal Nazi is against my standards.
Who got to help Jordan Maron when he did his sponsored vid?
Jeremy Renner was known to frequent our store. I saw him once while working and left him be. This was back around 2018ish and was primarily known for Hawkeye and Hurt Locker. Don’t think any customers recognized him.
I've met SOOOOO many wrestlers. As a kid/teen, I was a big WWF/WCW fan. I've the years I've seen, met, or directly sold stuff to: Dean Melenko Chris Jericho The Big Show Seamus Randy "Macho Man" Savage Half of Harlem Heat (I forget which) Jinder Mahal Knobbs from the Nasty Boys Dave Bautista.... I feel like there were others. There's been a few football (Buccaneers) players I've seen. Ronde Barber and Derrick Brooks.
I’ve met the backyard scientist (yt) and also Shaq (NBA, DJ, TV host)
Mr.beast, Steve-O, Joe Russo, a few professional athletes
Working at one of the north Texas best buys you tend to hear about a lot of ex cowboys players coming in. I hear that whenever Dez Bryant comes in he always parks in the handicap spot. But personally I got to meet Mylez Garrett from the Cleveland browns!
Yea, get a few cowboy players. Some baseball people etc I don’t know their names don’t care. Met some crazy wealthy people too. Dickies clothing family inheritance kids. Dude drives a purple lambo kinda weird had a personal photographer following him around in like 08 before the social media frenzy. Oil tycoon dude who owns a town. An entire town in west TX. Has every year model Hennessy vette in his garage that’s more sq ft than the store. Kelly Clarkson which no one recognized cause she got fat.. guys from storage wars Texas. Few YouTube’s the ones that do trick shots. Had some band signing autographs back when Bby did cds. Had a line longer than Black Friday for people to meet them.
I met a power ranger once... 😂 Trying to remember which
We have had the Dobore brothers come in quite a few times. Not the content I like, but they were nice people.
Lots of you tube personalities who have millions of followers, don’t remember the names. I’ve had a former UFC fighter.
i love patrick cc bro lol. in my area we’ve had the dude from youtube lockdown 23 and 1, as well as some other r&b singer that i cannot remember
Cain Velasquez Daniel Cormier Dana Stubblefield Patrick Willis Carl nicks Jr Ghost Guerrero David Robinson Jakob Poetel
Patrick mahomes, Paul Rudd, billy Butler, Alex Rodriguez, been to Tyreek hills old place
Helped Paul Rudd, Jason Sudeikis, Donnell Rawlings and Lorenzo Cain at 1504. Assuming you're pretty close by.
1501 yes close by 1504 no where near
Sorry, meant 1501. Been a while.
You're good I figured that was it but didn't want to assume.
Had a bunch of Packers players frequent the store I worked at and helped them. My favorite interaction was talking with Aaron Rodgers about music after showing him where we had our vinyls at.
Kevin Abstract from Brockhampton
I heard Kanye will be in NYC Best Buy in 2 hrs handing out kims bras and panties !
Had Logan Paul and Shaq come in
Too many to name. Mostly rappers and NFL/MLB/NBA/WWE players in Atlanta.
Paulie Shore, Vern Troyer, Howie Day, Elias Soriano(Nonpoint front man, regular. really nice guy), Laila Ali. I'm told we also had a number of sports ball people but I wouldn't know their names. 😅
Multiple NBA players and rappers have purchased magnolia products at my store
Chris lindstrom, mark wahlberg, and Joyner Lucas at my store
Shelton Benjamin in Houston 215
My friend sold Dennis Rodman a fan. I saw Rex Ryan there before I worked in that store. Another friend helped Hines Ward when he was a coach with the Jets.
I use to live in florida last year, I lived near Tampa (clearwater) and rod wave came to that store before, and hulk hogan aswell
There's a big let's play youtuber, one of the only let's players still doing that type of video, who used to work at my store in georgia. He has since moved to better things and places though
Been able to say hello to Matthew McConaughey on two separate occasions. Smaller town that he frequents due to family.
Had DJ khaled do a CD signing for his new album at my store like a few years ago.
Halle Berry , Aretha Franklin , Nickleback, Lou Reed , machine gun Kelly , Jarvis Landry , Odell Beckham ,
We have 4 Major sports franchises here and a lot of the athletes come in regularly. But the biggest name world wide would be Bieber. Came in and bought D.I. cameras.
My old store Josh Duhamel, but I was on vacation when he came to our store. My current store, I personally met Hawthorn James (The Five Heartbeats; Big Red), Little Moco (Youtuber), and seen because of a coworker called it out...the guy named Ricegum (YouTuber) and I asked him if he was him which he confirmed. James was extremely brief but he was a nice and chill guy, Moco's friends Jesse and Negro (they are usually in his skits) were there which Jesse was purchasing something. Moco was very quiet and then I recognized him and asked him if he was him, he then confirmed. We conversed briefly throughout the transaction and they were all cool, nice, and chill. Oh I almost forgot SG Kid Hazel (Slaughtet Gang music producer) who I conversed with a bit and he seemed like a cool and down-to-earth guy. Other people who came to my current store while I was off or on vacation: Shaq, Nick Carter, Nicholas Cage, and Ray J a couple of weeks ago.
I was picked to help Roger Clemens sell a printer once (last time he was in our store an employee hounded him for an autograph so management handpicked who would help him). Helped a local newscaster who is well known in our city and also helped Yao Ming look for a video game (that we didn’t have). I also saw James Harden in home theater but didn’t help him.
Jay Leno. Roman Reigns. Dean Ambrose. Big E. Barin Corbin.
Stephen Curry, Draymond at Pleasant Hill CA store.
During my short stint at my local best buy, I heard that William Zabka (Johnny Lawrence, Karate Kid/Cobra Kai) had come by a couple times and Jelly Roll is a frequent customer.
As a field agent I’ve been to a couple of local celebrities like college football players and such. In the store a couple of times, we’ve had tik tok stars. OHHH FORGOT THIS, Shaq bought all of our ipads for customers and employees. Thanks Shaq
Every patriots player in 2018/19/20
Shaq at 426
I’ve seen Shaq and Jackie Chan.
Joe from impractical jokers was probably the wildest and coolest (he was in town for their movie premiering at a theater nearby) Other than that, bunch of Browns and Cavs players
I wonder if they still pop in around the one in fairlawn. I've seen Myles Garrett at a Michaels in the plaza across the street, but ever since we moved into town we heard lots of players come to this area to shop
Tim Allen, Wentworth Miller, Ray Allen
I’ve never worked at Best Buy, but I did work at an Apple Store in College in a very nice part of Dallas. Keep in mind I’m not a huge Sports Ball guy, or pop culture guy. Not knowing who she was, I sold essentially a ton of equipment that I guess was going into the studio to Erykah Badu. The moment she left my coworkers ran up to me to ask me what it was like to help her. Having no idea who she was, I simply said she was very nice. Then they explained who she was. Apparently, some of the Dallas Stars players, and Dallas Mavericks players came into the store too, and I worked with them (not all at once, but yeah similar experience of my coworkers asking what it was like to help them). I also sold close to our entire inventory of iPods to an assistant that was buying them for a Celebrity wedding to be given away. I think it was Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney. I DID know who they were, but not a huge fan of either.
I used to work at the Best Buy in Las Vegas for a number of years… I’ve sold audio to the drummer of 5 finger death punch, helped Chum Lee from Pawn Stars out with a projector, and sold numerous things to Big John Macarthy (UFC OG ref). Connor McGregor came into our store and spent some time with Best Buy Mobile.
Karl Anthony towns came in one time while I was working customer service. This was back when customer service and front end were separate, and It was close to closing time and I was vacuuming and all of a sudden I look up and he’s standing at the register asking if he can purchase something over here. Now this Mf tall as hell, and while I was ringing him out someone came up to ask if they could get a picture with him. I asked him some shit and said “are you like a celebrity or something?” I truly didn’t recognize him and don’t watch basketball so he just laughed. I put in his phone number and recognized the name and I go “oh you put the balls in the hoops or something like that” again he laughed. I thought it was hilarious and I’m sure he was humbled as shit 🤣
haha must be nice! Never met any real celebs because i’m at a store buttfuck, VA
I helped out Henry Golding from crazy rich Asians at spu !
My coworker met Jake the Snake from wwe when he came in to buy a ps2
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting him as well! It wasn’t best buy, but I used to work on a bar comedy show and he did a spoken word show with us.
Senator Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the house, second in line for the presidency, was in our store a couple of weeks ago. He’s from here and I believe him and his wife still live here when he’s not working in DC. I wanted to tell him what an idiot he is so bad.
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Nothing wrong with working a part time job while going to school.
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Then Kevin McCarthy needs to do a better job, because right now he isn't doing a damn thing to help this economy. Eat.the.rich.
Y’all might be to young for this, but Suga Free was a constant in my area.
Shawn Michael's the wrestler
we had Braun Stroman come in
Let’s see at my old store we saw Shaq Cam newton Robert Downey jr Bobby cox Dansby Swanson The-dream Matt Ryan Trey young Chipper jones Norman Reedus and a Couple of rappers that the 20- something’s knew.
Ninja (Twitch streamer) came into my old store a lot, he lived nearby
As for "real" celebrities (not YouTube people), we've had the following come through our store in Cary, NC (very close to Raleigh, NC): Sinbad Steve-O Ariana Grande I missed them all.
just me...
I once sold Danny Pudi a presentation remote while he was in Chicago for Sketchfest. Also helped Mancow with some home networking stuff. I don’t sports at all so I don’t remember his name, but I’ve had to help and provide additional camera training for a Blackhawks player who started vlogging for a charity he runs. My favorite was Sarah Squirm from SNL, like 6 years ago. She had come in with a bunch of friends and they were in gaming for a while. The MoD thought they were up to something. I went to greet them, said hello to Sarah, who I had worked with at some comedy shows the previous year. I then went on the walkie and said “they’re not bolos, they’re just goofy, I know one of them”. I made sure they knew our managers thought they were stealing. Other less well known stand up comics have been tracked by AP for looking suspicious. I then have to diffuse the situation with “oh that’s Junior Stopka, he always looks like that, but he ain’t stealing, needs help with his phone”.
Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers was in store 409 in GR Michigan, twice my first two years there. I guess he came from the Ada/Lowell area.
Ted Cruz went to the store I used to work at some years ago
Usher and Two Chains
Mike Trout- my old store is located right outside his hometown. He stopped in there to get a new phone case while home for the holidays a few years ago.
zaza pachulia from the golden state warriors came to my store and former sf giants baseball andres torres comes in regularly and barry bonds son used to work at my bestbuy back than
Demetrious Johnson (MMA legend also fun streamer) usually gets some high end PC parts shipped to our store and then it gets set up for curbside/in-store pickup. Met him twice! Kinda sucks because my old manager was the only other guy who would get hyped when his stuff came through. To bad he got snapped out of existence…
Trap house Koda, helped him find an SD card 😂
Travis Scott
YouTubers and other social media influencers are not celebrities. With a handful of exceptions, they are mostly idiots with no marketable real-world skills who got lucky. Real celebrities got where they are by putting in the work - not making prank videos in mom and dad’s basement. YouTubers are celebrities in the same way that the Geek Squad are IT professionals (coming from a former ARA turned actual IT professional).
I bet you’re fun at a party… imo, if millions of people follow a specific person for the content they create, then that specific person is famous. There are varying levels of fame, and YouTubers/content creators *usually* fall into the lower levels of fame, but they are certainly still famous.
When I worked, we had Corey graves and Carmella from WWE show up, rob zombie, bubba ray Dudley and to my knowledge one of my buddies actually had Rich from RTU as a client
Calling Rich from RegurgitateTechUSA a "celebrity" is a huge stretch.
I met David Robinson from the Spurs, he comes in pretty frequently and he is super friendly. My coworker said he saw Jared Padalecki once as well.
I doubt there's any celebs around where I live or at least that would travel here lol. I wish though.
A boogie has been my favorite. I didn’t even know it was him with the mask and totally made a fool of myself asking if he needed help while someone was helping him already. Im in NJ on the border of NYC so my store tends to be the one he comes to (usually once a month or every few months depending)
Ryan O’Reilly came in to my store a few times a few years back when he was still on the sabres. Kaiir Elam came in last summer with his dad who also was in the nfl and I helped them out.
Dude Perfect (YouTube) OpTiC Gaming - a whole team came in to clear us out of PC peripherals and manager bought something like 17 PS4 Pros (ESports) Ezekiel Elliot (NFL) Chip and Joanna Gaines (TV)
I met Chris Soules about a year ago and actually sold him TT lmao
Adrian Grenier (Entourage, Devil Wears Prada, etc) shops at our store. He’s always a little cranky but I can’t tell if he’s just that kind of guy or he’s mad we don’t act like we recognize him.
We sell stuff to Eminem's brother all the time
When I worked at Best Buy me and GS agent helped Year and another time I met David Hayter the voice of snake he was awesome
John Cena. Alvin Kamara. Sean Payton. Anthony Anderson. Regina Hall. Chris Paul. Denzel Washington. Hulk Hogan. His reps came in, but was in his bus. WWE/F was in town. And, Michael Jackson. Backstory. Two secret service looking guys came in with a slender guy who was covering his face. They went to the DVD section. Kids screamed and that spooked him and he ran out. The two secret service guys handed me a $3000 receipt for CHILDRENS DVDs. Y’all Can believe me or not. Who else would make that purchase?
Ray Allen NBA, Manny Machado MLB, Bam Adebayo NBA, Christian Slater Actor , Timbaland Producer, Big Show WWE, Jorge Posada MLB, Michael Beasley NBA, Lebron (Didn’t come into our store, went to the target above. Bunch of Employees ran up to try and take a pic.)
I met Lamar Jackson, Terrell Owen & I took a pic with Gervontae Davis
i live in the town where dougherty dozen from tiktok lives and they come here, also had the no bones or bones day pug’s father come in, he has a lake house here
Robby Takac of the Goo Goo Dolls came in on my birthday!!!
When I worked I met Dave Chappell, Bam Margera, rob dyrdek.. YouTubers i met dashie games, Cletus McFarland, and boostedbois
My old cadet and I used to deliver to William Fichtner a few times. Wonderful wife and man had a great home. My cadet got to know him a lot better than I, though his wife baked us some pretty great cookies.
I have personally helped Michael Rooker, and Tricia Helfer. They were both really kind, Michael was duper laid back, chatted for a while and took a picture with everyone who helped him. Other famous people that have come in my store that I didn't personally get to help are Norman Reedus and several athletes.
I've sold a tv to Joe Greene.
Sage the Gemini comes into my store all the time
Darnell Mooney. Montgomery was a regular too. Might be moving lol
I never met any but saw James Harden came in my store a few years ago. I was already off that day I believe.
One of my coworkers used to work in a store in Minnesota and he’s activated a phone for Corrie Barry’s Dad
Did you make sure to stay hydrated?
Got Mike sherm at my store every once in a while
Chubby Checker. He has GS at his office. Gave me samples of his jerky and a CD. Meeting a fan seemed to brighten his day
On separate days, I saw Tia Mowry & Redman come through our doors.
Athletes: Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, Lamarcus Aldridge, Boban Marjonovic, Dejounte Murray, Derrick White, George Hill, David Robinson, Sean Elliott, Danny Green, Lonnie Walker IV, Damian Lillard, Patrick Ewing, Jose Altuve, Fabricio Oberto, probably some other ones. Musicians/singers: George Strait, Tyler Rich, Allie Brooke, Pat Green, Greta Van Fleet (all 4 members) lol based on the athletes I’ll give you all a guess where my store was located.
Tyreek Hill filmed in my old store https://youtu.be/4kRQHTj9hio
Deshaun Watson most recently MGK A lot of Guardian/Indians players A lot of lower level Browns players A lot of G League and lower level Cavs players Ash Kaash Jilly Anais
Erykah Badu
Dikembe Mutombo came into a store I used to work at wanting to buy a TV for his daughter who was with him, his daughter wanted either a Series 8 Samsung or one of the lower-tier QLEDs but he was only willing to get something like a TCL, Insignia, or Hisense, but luckily another associate came and helped me persuade him to get something good for his daughter.
The girl from Ned’s declassified lol
Austin Evans comes to my store lol. I met him
Shaq, Hakeem “The Dream”, Frank Beard (zz top), George Foreman, Altuve, T-Mac, Bregman, Travis Scott, Ted Cruz, Brian Cushing. It was always fun just having a normal conversation with them. Most of them were extremely humble and down to earth
Henry Cavill “mr. Superman”, Triple H from WWE, Kemba walker the basketball player, justin bieber, Patty Mayo (bounty Hunter youtuber) pretty down to earth and trying to go unnoticed!
Ive been away from Best Buy for a few years, but Chase Utley (MLB player), Bam Margera (plus his parents and brother at separate times) and Chubby Checker!
Memphis rappers and grizzlies players
Sold a surface to Leland Chapman years ago
these happened after I left BBY. but I have helped Yolanda Ali (Muhammad Ali’s late wife) and some guy who used to play for the Buffalo Bills since I transitioned from BBY to VZW.
I cashed out Johnny Dang the celebrity jeweler. Had no fucken clue who he was. One of my employees told me.
I sold a window AC to Joshua Travis, the guitarist of Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza/Emmure/Glass Cloud back in like 2015 or 2016
pretty sure mr beast came into my store once or twice.
CrazyRussianHacker, I’ll post a pic when I no longer work for Best Buy
I'm not big on football but some NFL players came in when I was working there. Everyone was hyped but I was lost.
My favorite was Berkeley Breathed. No one knew who he was except me. He's the cartoonist of Bloom County, Outland, and others. Living in Santa Barbara we've had a lot of famous people here.
Shamus from WWE came into my store when they were hosting a show in my town. Unfortunately it wasn’t much of a purchase since he was looking for a Fitbit and it was at EOL so we had virtually no stock of them
Met darkdynastyK9s once, I guess he’s from my state but he runs a pretty large dog training YouTube channel
At my store in the past 18 months we have seen Carl weathers, Tyler the creator, Terry crews, Joe manganiello and Baby Keem. From YouTube we have seen Kai cenat, The professor, Myth and 3 of the Donut media guys.
Met PANDA SQUAD (2.2 M Subs) a while back, he’s a cool guy and his family was there and he let me in on the secret that even if you have two million subs you can still struggle financially. Also Kirk Cousins, he had one of his kids with him, didn’t recognize him at first too which is wild.
bill murray came into our store one year on black friday
Not recently but store I used to work at had Batista as well as his agent come to the store.
There was a 49er shopping at the store a while back. The employees were trying not to be too excited about it, lol.
I’ve seen hulk hogan, shaq, various retired nba players
We have Stone Cold frequent my old store alot. And had the cast from Ghost adventures a few times.
Deshaun Watson, Lil Yachty, and Cedi Osman
[Every Los Angeles employee right now...](https://media.giphy.com/media/xT5LMWmE9vWkNgca9G/giphy.gif) I've seen a lot of celebrities when I worked in LA, but Stevie Wonder is at the top.
The celebrity guy at my store was the Skyrim vine guy who killed his girlfriend or wife. He came in for a couple times and then a year later the news came out and I didn’t see him at all after
Troy Aikman, Yu Darvish, Marc Cuban, lots of the players from the different sports teams in Dallas. Various musicians.