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24 Oct: Best Buy launches exclusive Upgrade+ program for Mac laptops

New program makes it easy and affordable for customers to experience and upgrade to the latest Mac laptops.

MINNEAPOLIS, October 24, 2022 — Best Buy is offering a first-of-its-kind upgrade program called Upgrade+ powered by Citizens Pay®, making it easy and affordable for customers to experience and upgrade to the latest Mac laptops with Apple silicon, including MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.

Through Upgrade+, customers can apply for financing to purchase a new Mac laptop with affordable payments spread across 36 months before deciding if they want to upgrade to a newer device in month 37.

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29 Oct: Free Holiday Shipping Is Back At Best Buy

Free shipping has once again returned for the holiday season at Best Buy, and there’s no minimum purchase or membership required.

Want it even faster? We’ve got you covered with same-day shipping and store pickup.

“We know shoppers have enough on their to-do lists this time of year, so we want to make it as easy as possible to get all your holiday gifts when and how you want them,” said Allison Peterson, Best Buy’s president of e-commerce.

Free shipping

From now until Christmas Day, all orders on BestBuy.com

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07 Dec: National Safety Council, Best Buy Provide Holiday Safety Tips

The holiday season is one of our favorite times of the year, but unfortunately, it’s also a time when home thefts and accidents tend to rise.

On Thursday, Maureen Vogel from the National Safety Council and Pedro Melendez, a Best Buy smart home security expert, talked to media outlets around the country to educate consumers about common holiday safety hazards and how to prevent them.

Let’s start with thefts. What’s the best way to keep those online gift purchases from getting stolen?

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30 Oct: Free holiday shipping, expanded same-day delivery now available at Best Buy

With the holiday season approaching, your schedule will get busier and your time more valuable. But there’s shopping to be done and gift lists to tackle. So, this year, we are providing even more options to make shopping with Best Buy effortless.

“We always want to help make shopping with Best Buy as easy as possible for our customers,” said Allison Peterson, president of BestBuy.com. “But we especially want this to be the case during the holiday season. Whether a customer wants to shop in store, online with free shipping or if they need a product the same day, we want to help people easily get and give great tech.”

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25 Oct: A Closer Look at the Best Buy Holiday ‘Top Tech’ List

The Best Buy holiday “Top Tech” list contains the hottest new and emerging technologies handpicked by Best Buy’s experts, from virtual reality and smart home products to drones and hair dryers (yes, hair dryers).

You’ll also find the latest laptops, gaming systems, TVs, cameras and more.

You can learn about, preorder or buy them now in Best Buy stores and on BestBuy.com.

Check out the slideshow to learn more about these hot holiday products.

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16 Dec: Top Tech Stocking Stuffers That Won’t Break Your Budget

Picking up a quality gift for your significant other, landlord and little brother is already a daunting enough task without having to sweat a tight budget.

But hey, great gifts – and great tech – don’t have to break the bank. Best Buy has your back with top tech gifts at price points under $25, $50 and $100.

Here are our favorites that are sure to convince them you’re living the high life.

*Pro-tip: These also make for great stocking stuffers.

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11 Dec: The Best Tech Gifts for Him, Her, the Kids and Family

The lights are up, the stockings are hung and there’s eggnog in the fridge. But you’re still struggling to come up with gift ideas for some of the people on your shopping list.

Don’t sweat it. Best Buy – with some help from a national survey – has come up with lists of the top tech gifts for him, her, the kids and the whole family, to help you win the holiday and do it stress-free.

Gifts for Him

Our survey found that men love to give and receive tech gifts.

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10 Dec: Treat Yourself: ‘Self-Gifting’ is a Popular Holiday Trend

They say it’s better to give than to receive — but why choose?

More and more Americans are indulging in “self-gifting” at the holidays, checking something off their own wish lists while out shopping for loved ones.

A recent survey commissioned by Best Buy found that nearly 85 percent of shoppers take advantage of sales or price discounts during the holiday season to buy gifts for themselves (or a group gift for themselves and their households). That figure is even higher, nearly 90 percent, for shoppers ages 18 to 34.

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22 Oct: And the Top 15 Holiday Tech Gifts for 2015 Are…

When it comes to Holiday gifts to give and receive, tech products are high on the list.

Best Buy commissioned a national study to see what shoppers are looking for, and the results show that tablets lead a diverse group that also includes HDTVs, wearables and wireless speakers.

The top of the Top 15? The iPad. Here’s the full list:

Top 15 tech gifts for 2015

The Best Buy study also uncovered the following holiday shopping trends:

Millennials rank CE No.

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20 Feb: Best Buy Helps Donate $9.7M to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®

Photos: Courtesy of St. Jude

This past holiday, Mary Collett’s Best Buy mobile store in Odessa, Texas, was a company-wide leader in contributing to the St. Jude Thanks and Giving^® campaign.

On Wednesday, she got to see first-hand all the good that money can do at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital^®.

“Until you visit St. Jude, you don’t really grasp the immenseness of it all,” she said during the tour of the Memphis-based hospital. “There are so many staff members.

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15 Jan: Best Buy Reports Increase in Holiday Revenue

Enterprise revenue increased 2.1%

Domestic comparable sales increased 2.6%, excluding the

benefit of mobile phone installment billing

MINNEAPOLIS — Jan. 15, 2015 — Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) today announced revenue results for the nine weeks ended January 3, 2015, as compared to the nine weeks ended January 4, 2014, excluding revenue from the Five Star business in China. As announced on December 4, 2014, the company entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of its Five Star business in China and expects to include its results in discontinued operations beginning in Q4 FY15.

By Kevin Flanagan Company News

19 Dec: This Holiday’s Must-Have Tech Gifts? Here They Are

Just in time for the holidays, Best Buy – with some help from a consumer survey – has created a list of tech products that will have everyone doing the Jingle Bell Rock. From items under $100 to wearables, here are the hottest gifts this year:

Gifts Under $100

We get it – you have to buy your girlfriend’s godparents, younger brother, AND next-door neighbor gifts that will convince them you’re living large, but you’re on a tight budget. Here are some quality gifts under $100.

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