Best Buy employee hording, it seems, may be a thing of the past.

Check out the new official policy:

Employee Purchase Policy Due to inventory levels of PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Nintendo Wii hardware, there are strict requirements on employee purchases. An employee must be off-duty in order to purchase these products. Employees are customers when they're not at work, so must follow same standard procedure applicable to customers:

Stand in line with no preferential treatment
Receive line ticket based on placement in lines
Purchase of one unit per employee

Every employee is expected to uphold our values, adhere to our Company policies and keep a constant
focus on our customers. Behaviors exhibiting direct violation of the Company policies and values will not
be tolerated. The consequences for violating the Company values and policies will result in an immediate
launch of an internal investigation resulting in a range of disciplinary actions - up to, and including,
termination of employment.

The resale of any PS3 or Wii systems originally purchased at Best Buy by a current Best Buy employee is
strictly prohibited. To view the Company's Employee Purchase Policy, go to eGO and select Policies &
Culture, Policies, Your Responsibilities & Behavior and then Employee Discount Policy.
Employees should talk to their managers to discuss or report questionable behavior.

Brian Crecente

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