GREENVILLE, S.C. —
Best Buy’s corporate office is apologizing for the incident that was apparently witnessed by numerous customers, including young children.
“It was extremely, extremely pornographic image,” customer Gloria Berg says. “I think even the word ‘pornographic’ doesn’t cover it. I have never watched pornography, so I don’t know what else you can see there, but to me, I really felt extremely violated.”
Berg was inside the store with her son and his children. She says they were looking at the store’s display of 55-inch screen smart televisions when a pornographic photo of a man and woman suddenly popped up.
She says the image stayed up for several minutes before the manager came over and took it down, and by then, several horrified families had seen it.
She says the manager told her someone had used the store’s WI-FI to upload the image to the TV’s.
She says the manager told her the same thing had happened the night before and there was nothing the store could do about it.
“They, like, brush it off like it’s…who cares? Nobody cares. It’s pornography. And we are getting adjusted to that kind of mentality. That’s why we are losing our morals,” Berg says.
Management at the Greenville Best Buy wouldn’t talk to 7 On Your Side about the incident, so we called the corporate office, which sent us the following statement.