vacuumfreeeke
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Hey guys, I know we like to sometimes post pics of vacuum displays in stores when we see them, so I took a few at Target today. I tried to get some at Best Buy, but the employees kept giving me dirty looks, so the ones I got of the displayed floor models are too blurry to post.... I did get a one of some of the boxed machines. The only things notable at Best Buy were that Hoover has some new bare floor steamers out (I saw those on their web site), with triangular shaped heads like the old Dirt Devil stick vacs (I guess Dirt Devil cant sue Hoover for that since they are owned by the same company.... did TTI ever sell Hoover off?). There is a canister and an upright model. They are still selling the Lynx stick vac which is the only one of the Platinum Series left it seems... they did have one boxed Platinum bagged light weight upright, on clearance in an aisle not even close to the vacuums. Some of the Dysons were also separated from the other vacuums and instead right at the end cap behind the Geek Squad. I noticed something horrible though.... while the new stick vac has an electric power nozzle, the "baby Dyson" canister (DC26?) only has a turbine head... I thought for sure it had a real power nozzle... but because of this, I no longer want one!
I was curios about one thing though.... Best Buy did have several Electroluxes (the Versatility, an orange (what's up with all the orange vacuums?) bagless canister with a turbo nozzle, and 2 Ergo Rapidos)... one of the Ergo Rapidos was orange, and the other was bronze colored with a window over the brushroll and that one was more expensive than the orange one, what is the difference? Best Buy did also have an LG Kompressor upright in the box only (not one for display) with the Hoover Platinum light weight bagged, again, not even near the vacuum section. Maybe they are rearranging or ran out of room with the other vacuums...
Target had nothing to be impressed with... they had too many steam mops, but they also have a ton of pretty awful uprights... the only thing I'd even consider there would be the Dysons.... Wal-mart now has a better selection of vacuums than Target, and that wasn't always true. I was horrified to see that the Oreck is the only bagged machine they even offer now! Mostly cheap bagless Dirt Devils and Bissells... Wal-mart sells the Rug Doctor, the Bissell Canister, a better Hoover Canister, the new Hoover Nano Lite Cyclonic, the Eureka Smart Vac (which is probably their only bagged machine now... maybe they have a Hoover T series too, not sure).... so weird!
By the way, did anyone notice that Black and Decker now has a floor steamer as well? I guess that is the current fad!
Here are the Best Buy boxes...
I was curios about one thing though.... Best Buy did have several Electroluxes (the Versatility, an orange (what's up with all the orange vacuums?) bagless canister with a turbo nozzle, and 2 Ergo Rapidos)... one of the Ergo Rapidos was orange, and the other was bronze colored with a window over the brushroll and that one was more expensive than the orange one, what is the difference? Best Buy did also have an LG Kompressor upright in the box only (not one for display) with the Hoover Platinum light weight bagged, again, not even near the vacuum section. Maybe they are rearranging or ran out of room with the other vacuums...
Target had nothing to be impressed with... they had too many steam mops, but they also have a ton of pretty awful uprights... the only thing I'd even consider there would be the Dysons.... Wal-mart now has a better selection of vacuums than Target, and that wasn't always true. I was horrified to see that the Oreck is the only bagged machine they even offer now! Mostly cheap bagless Dirt Devils and Bissells... Wal-mart sells the Rug Doctor, the Bissell Canister, a better Hoover Canister, the new Hoover Nano Lite Cyclonic, the Eureka Smart Vac (which is probably their only bagged machine now... maybe they have a Hoover T series too, not sure).... so weird!
By the way, did anyone notice that Black and Decker now has a floor steamer as well? I guess that is the current fad!
Here are the Best Buy boxes...
