Neowin News Feed for: Bestbuy

Best Buy switches to curbside pickup service, will only permit employees inside stores

Usman Khan Lodhi — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:00:01 +0000

As the retailer sees a surge in orders for home office equipment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it switches to curbside pickup only. Starting March 22, only workers will be allowed inside stores. Read more...

Facebook pulls 'Oculus Live' experience from nearly 200 Best Buy locations

Timi Cantisano — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:16:01 +0000

Facebook has decided to pull nearly 200 Oculus Rift demo kiosks from Best Buy locations amid reports of lackluster performance. The reason did not have to do with the sales performance of headset. Read more...

Major Nelson: Best Buy throwing in $50 gift card when you purchase an Xbox One

Steven Parker — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 08:39:55 +0000

Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has tweeted to his followers you can get a $50 gift card added to your purchase of an Xbox One at Best Buy for an undisclosed period, with it applying to multiple bundles. Read more...

Best Buy increasing Apple Watch rollout to all stores due to "strong demand"

Moshe Jacobs — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:42:01 +0000

Despite Apple not providing sales figures on its Apple Watch, Best Buy is increasing availability of the Watch across all of its stores in the United States due to "strong demand". Read more...

BestBuy's Black Friday deals include the Surface 2 32GB at $299.99; a saving of $150

Steven Parker — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:36:01 +0000

The retail sector is already ramping up for Black Friday which takes place on Nov 28th and will see Americans clamour for heavily discounted equipment, including the Surface 2 at a massive discount. Read more...

BestBuy Moto 360 listing accidentally goes live, reveals price of the upcoming wearable

Orhon Can Dagtekin — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:20:34 +0000

Although the Moto 360 is yet to be unveiled, a BestBuy listing accidentally revealed the specifications of the highly anticipated smartwatch, along with its price before being taken down. Read more...

A visual tour of Microsoft's store inside Best Buy

Brad Sams — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 20:16:15 +0000

Microsoft is rolling out mini-stores inside of Best Buy's all across the U.S., and Neowin visited one and took some photos to show the layout that Microsoft will be utilizing. Read more...

Best Buy closes a few stores in Canada, forgets to tell employees

Brad Sams — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:49:46 +0000

Best Buy closed at least two outlets in Quebec, in Sherbrooke and in Montreal-area Lachenaie but never told the employees that the stores were closing and that they were out of a job. Read more...

Napster lives, $5 a month subscription package

Brad Sams — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:08:31 +0000

BestBuy has re-launched Napster and it's trying a new untested business model. The basic premise of the cheapest plan is that you can get unlimited streaming of music, keep 5 DRM free MP3's each... Read more...

Circuit City files for bankruptcy and what this means to you

Brad Sams — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:18:09 +0000

Circuit City, the large electronics chain, has filed for bankruptcy on November 10th. The mega-chain of stores attempted to slash expenditures by closing 155 stores and knocking off 17% of its work force. These drastic... Read more...

Best Buy Getting Stricter With Console Exchanges

Neowin Staff — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:25:34 +0000

The formula was pretty simple: Buy a game console at electronics retailer Best Buy, pick up the extended warranty, and when a new hardware revision was released, claim your console was broken and upgrade for... Read more...

Canada: Future Shop to enter used video game market

Fred Derf — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:53:19 +0000

Best Buy, Canada's largest electronics retailer, will enter the second-hand games market with a test run at six of its Future Shop stores in Calgary, Alberta. They will then expand this venture to all 133... Read more...

Best Buy Loses Laptop: Owner Sues... for $54 Million

Steven Parker — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:38:47 +0000

Don't dismiss Raelyn Campbell as a crackpot. Not yet. Listen to her story, and then decide if she's doing the right thing by asking Best Buy to compensate her to the tune of $54 million... Read more...

Best Buy to recommend Blu-ray and Netflix goes exclusive

Fred Derf — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:41:43 +0000

Thanks to Loppdawg69 for the Netflix email (see the extended news page). BestBuy, the largest U.S. consumer electronics chain, said on Monday it will recommend that consumers choose Sony Corp's Blu-ray... Read more...

BestBuy beats competition, offers $180 HD DVD player

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:26:51 +0000

Despite the retail giant's plans to offer a sub-$200 Toshiba HD DVD player, Walmart was recently beaten to the punch time-wise by CircuitCity and now price-wise by BestBuy. Toshiba's HD-A2, which started out at $500,... Read more...