OMG THE PS3 IS DOOMED!!!!!111!1!1
anyways, the failure rate at that store may be high, but until multiple stores report high return rates than this is nothing more than a bad batch of consoles. Since they just moved to a new manufacturing process, it could be the results of improper testing of the setup.
I may not be a fan of Sony, but I know they have good enough quality that it won't be a repeat of what Microsoft did.