RE: Babies R Us - check the boxes!
Your're not the only one to have bad service at that store. The San Jose BRU is TERRIBLE. We used to live in Almaden in south San Jose and we registered at that store. I couldn't believe how incompetent the staff was and how poorly managed that store was. (This is before we moved across country to Fairfax, VA, when I was 32 weeks pregnant, where I now have THREE BRUs within 30 minutes PLUS BuyBuyBaby in Rockville, MD. Very different from Silicon Valley, but it is baby store heaven here LOL.)
Also, those Snugride boxes may have all been opened to check the bases due to the Graco Snugride recall of a couple months ago. Retailers were supposed to check their inventories to ensure that they were not affected by the recall.
HTH,
Beth, mom to older DD (8/01) and younger DD (10/06) and always missing Leah (4/22 - 5/1/05)