Best Buy

What's New

Bye Bye, Best Buy?

The Internet giveth, and the Internet taketh away
- By Ken C. Pohlmann
- Posted July 17, 2012
- 4
Gee, who could have predicted this? The Internet is creating entirely new industries, and decimating others. Big-box electronics retailer Best Buy is among the latest bricks and mortar companies to be decimated by the web.

» Read More
Extended Warranties on Blu-ray (Discs)

No, seriously. Extended warranties on Blu-ray discs
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted January 27, 2012
- 1
I went to Best Buy yesterday to buy a Blu-ray. I needed some latest 3D piece of crap to use in an upcoming review of a 3D projector. Upon checkout, the clerk asked if I wanted a service plan on the Blu-ray.
I’m going to repeat that. The clerk asked if I wanted a service plan on the Blu-ray disc.
He was serious.

» Read More
Cutting Loose: Connected TV for Everybody

Three devices aim to ease you into streaming media — or help you ditch cable altogether.
- By Michael Berk
- Posted December 14, 2011
Cable cutting. You've probably begun the process already, even if you haven't gone all the way — think about how often you turn to Netflix, or Amazon, or Hulu Plus. And despite the panicked efforts of networks and providers nationwide, when are you watching live TV, exactly, aside from sports?

» Read More
Best Buy breaks sales records with UK opening
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 6, 2010
Best Buy opened its first store in the United Kingdom last weekend, and it was met with record-breaking sales.

» Read More
Best Buy: Buyer Beware
- By sandv blog
- Posted December 30, 2008
Some sharp shoppers have caught a few interesting tactics being employed by Best Buy stores. In one case, a shopped noticed some discrepancies in a display promoting the store's HDTV Calibration Service. The store had two TVs set up, side by side, one supposedly with the calibration performed, one without.

» Read More
Best Buy Branching Out In Spanish and Korean
- By sandv blog
- Posted December 27, 2008
Instead of sitting back and watching minority shoppers go elsewhere, Best Buy is launching an all-out attempt to lure in Latino and Korean shoppers into their stores in areas with large populations of these shoppers. Brilliant.

» Read More
Best Buy in Trouble - Who is Next?
- By sandv blog
- Posted December 17, 2008
Best Buy is the largest consumer electronics retailer left in the country. Circuit City filed for bankruptcy, Tweeter shuttered just weeks ago. You would think that without competition, Best Buy would be flourishing. However, they just announced massive spending cuts - reducing its capital spending by 50%. Massive.

» Read More
Best Buy's TiVo HD/HDTV Bundle
- By sandv blog
- Posted November 25, 2008
There are ghosts in my machines. I'm convinced of it. Two weeks ago, my trusty 32-inch CRT TV started to fail. The picture would go green, then black and white, and then the death roll. Grrr. Off to Best Buy to start researching what I wanted.

» Read More
Best Buy on Best Behavior
- By sandv blog
- Posted November 14, 2008
Instead of sitting back and gloating as it watches its biggest competitor flounder, Best Buy is doing whatever it can to prevent a trip down the same path.

» Read More
Best Buy's Black Friday VIP Contest
- By sandv blog
- Posted October 30, 2008
I have a confession to make: I have never participated in Black Friday madness. Nope. Never have, and hopefully, never will.

» Read More
Ladies' Night at Best Buy
- By sandv blog
- Posted October 8, 2008
Best Buy is ditching the yellow and blue and going for pink. Figuratively, that is. In an effort to appeal to more women shoppers, a few of the new stores in Denver are doing to be redecorated. Not in pink, but for some reason, someone feels that skylights and earth tones will appeal to women. Really?

» Read More
Elton John's Red Piano on Blu-ray
- By sandv blog
- Posted September 24, 2008
If you missed Elton John's The Red Piano show in Vegas, fear not. The show and songs are headed to Blu-ray and DVD, both sets also including two CD's of the live performance, to be sold at Best Buy stores.

» Read More