Best Buy doesn't even know when games are released

So I went to Best Buy today to get a few things among which was Heavy Rain.  I looked all over the PS3 section and couldn't find it.  I thought to myself that it must be in back or in a special case up front which they sometimes do with new releases.  I went up front by the cash register and it wasn't there so i asked an employee if they had it.  He looked in his computer and found out they did have it so he went back in storage to get it.  He came out and said that they did indeed have it but they couldn't give it to me because it "wasn't released until tomorrow" (March 2nd).  I told him that i knew it was released a week ago (for obvious reasons).  He said that no, it wasn't supposed to be released til 3/2/10.......  so i had to go over to Target to buy it who had it stocked with all the rest of the games.
 
I just wonder how a store like Best Buy could not know when a games release date was...

I never go to Best Buy anymore because they never know much of anything when I have a question.

I remember Jeff saying that he went to Best Buy to pick up the Miles Edgeworth game and they didn't even have it listed in their system. It would appear as though they are just incompetent.

Hiring the cheapest possible labor probably doesn't help.  Frys around here (South Bay Area) actually posts a list of release dates for games and movies in the appropriate sections just for this reason

" I never go to Best Buy anymore because they never know much of anything when I have a question. "

If there's a game that I'm interested in I just google the release date.

i guess u just have a bad best buy. i am happy with my best buy. i don't always buy from them but still. 
 
corporations are just stupid sometimes. when wow burning crusade came out i went to walmart and gamestop. they both were out and the guy at gamestop told me i should have preordered it. i ended up going to another one the other side of town and got it. in more recent times there is a thing called internet when they do release the games on time.

Hm, that is pretty weird.

I'll take Best Buy over Gamestop any day.

I like to shop as Best Buy as well, but I haven't bought a game so close to release day since MW2.

Best Buy employs teenage girls who don't know anything and most certainly don't care. What do you expect?

My local Best Buy is similarly useless, but both of the gamestops in my area are strangely competant, having never messed up anything for me. Odd.