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• Best Buy takes financial hit due to pandemic, plans to furlough 51,000 employees

  April 15, 2020 9:29 AM

  Best Buy, a popular Minnesota-based chain of electronics retail stores, announced Wednesday that due to the pandemic's toll on the economy, 51,000 of its domestic hourly store employees will be furloughed, beginning April 19. In addition to this, starting April 19 some corporate employees will voluntarily reduce their weekly... more »

• Shoppers hit sales early, before Black Friday Play Video

  November 29, 2013 7:47 AM

  BATON ROUGE- Shoppers weren't bothered by the early start to the Christmas shopping season, as they poured into malls and electronic stores hoping for big deals through the evening and morning. Best Buy opened at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving and many employees were still working through the evening as... more »