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By Best Buy Geek Squad

20 Apr: Best Buy Boosts Commitment to Underserved Youth with Expanded Geek Squad Academy Season

This year more than 8,500 teens nationwide will receive tech tools and hands-on training at 40 two-day camps

 

MINNEAPOLIS – (April 20, 2017) – Best Buy is deepening its commitment to helping underserved teens get access to essential tech tools by growing its flagship Geek Squad Academy (GSA) summer program more than 30 percent to conduct 40 camps supporting 8,500 teens this year.

“It’s clear that the challenges facing underserved youth are growing, with resources becoming more stretched even as the vast majority of future jobs will require tech proficiency,” said Andrea Wood, director of Community Relations at Best Buy.

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By Best Buy Company News Sustainability

06 Apr: Best Buy Named ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year for Fourth Year

For the fourth year in a row, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored Best Buy with the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award.

We are thrilled to receive this honor for our commitment to educating our customers on the benefits of energy efficiency and promoting the ENERGY STAR label in our stores and online.

At Best Buy, we have long recognized the benefit of partnering with ENERGY STAR, which not only lowers our customers’ utility bills, but also reduces environmental impacts in the communities we serve.

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By Best Buy Sustainability

27 Mar: Meet Someone Who Makes the Products We Love

While technology might not technically be an official basic human need (like food, clothing or shelter), it sure seems that we can’t live without it. We rely on our electronic devices because they enhance, organize and connect our lives.

But have you thought about where those devices come from? Or, more importantly, who makes them? The actual people who put all the technological doohickeys together?

Best Buy thinks about it – a lot. We consciously operate our business in a way that seeks to ensure the people who work in the factories that produce our products are safe and treated fairly.

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