Did Best Buy kill all the "old" people?

I've been scouring Best Buys for ideas for hot electronics trends when I observed a totally unexpected trend...there is absolutely no one over 40 on the floors at EVERY Best Buy in my area.

Interested to see if there is anymore to this I visited several Best Buys over the past month (as of March 04, 07) at the following locations at random times (all in California). I visited each of these Best Buys at least twice on separate days during the last 30 days and I visited every department of each store:

1) Pasadena
2) West Covina
3) City of Industry
4) Chino Hills
5) Rancho Cucamonga
6) Norco
7) San Diego (while I was on vacation)

Results of observations: Not a single human being employed apparently over 40 working on the floors...and YES I did ask how old they were. I also asked employees how many over 40 people worked with them on the floors...not a single one knew of an over 40 co-worker on the floors.

To play the flip side of this during the same period, I visited Circuit City at the following locations (I again visited each of these locations at least twice on separate days and all departments):

1) Glendale
2) Hollywood
3) West Covina
4) Burbank
5) Montebello

Observations: Every single one of these Circuit City locations had at least one over 40 employee working the floor and some locations like Glendale, Hollywood, and Burbank had several.

What about Fry's Electronics? Yup, I visited 2 locations:
1) City of Industry
2) Burbank

Observations: This place had LOTS of employees over 40 in almost every department.

CONCLUSION: First and foremost these are simply observations. I am confident that there is probably at least one employee over 40 working at Best Buy on the floors (though I did not find one). I am in no way saying that Best Buy is actively promoting age discrimination.

I like...no...I LOVE Best Buy. It's one of the few stores where employees are relatively knowledgeable, friendly, and most of the time, willing to help. They have never given me any drama about playing with their stuff and in one occasion no drama when I accidentally broke a knob off of one of the floor models.

With that said, where the hell are all the "old" people? Is Best Buy a repository for all the children of the corn who have suddenly wished away all the over 40 people? Could it just be no one over 40 applied at these particular locations?

I don't know...but I still think it's weird that in the past 30 days at each of these locations I did not observe a single over 40 employee in the camera, car audio, DVD/CD section, Magnolia (in some locations), TVs, Geek Squad/Repair, cell phones, or computer departments at seven locations.

Anyone else observe the same thing? Leave me feedback so that I know it's not just me.

Money's tight...save your dough...say YES I SAVED!!!