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Women Give Up Three Weeks of Life to Wait for Cheap Best Buy TVs
Aleksander Chan · 11/13/14 02:16PMHamilton Nolan · 12/30/13 04:17PM
Thatz Not Okay: Scallop Squabbles; The Worst Friend at Best Buy
Caity Weaver · 10/28/13 05:00PMLacey Donohue · 10/07/13 06:27PM
Homeless Man Who Returned $40,000 Rewarded with Over $70,000
Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/18/13 12:43PMHomeless Man Returns Backpack Full of Cash to Best Buy Employee
Lacey Donohue · 09/15/13 06:26PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/190a0ku65scm2jpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
A homeless man found a backpack filled with a large sum of money, travelers checks, and a passport outside a Dorchester mall in Massachusetts on Saturday and turned it over to police officers. He alerted Boston police in front of the South Bay Mall TJ Maxx store and gave them the bag filled with $2,400 in cash, $39,500 in traveler’s checks, and a Republic of China passport. The Good Samaritan, according to Boston police, could only provide them with his name and the address of the shelter where he is currently staying.
The Unstoppable Rampage of the Beliebers
Adrian Chen · 12/02/11 04:20PMBlack Friday Worker on the All-Night Shift Drives Into Canal
Lauri Apple · 11/26/11 03:13PMHoliday Shoppers Face 'Black Midnight' in Retail Hell
Hamilton Nolan · 11/07/11 10:16AM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18k1fm4b0wgtijpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Here we are, two months into the Christmas shopping season. Have you finished? No, because you didn't start in September like you were supposed to. Well, not to worry; corporate America is doing everything in its power to make you feel guilty about your laziness and poverty of ideas as well as money for several more hours, this holiday season.
Woman Already In Line for Thanksgiving Sales Restores Our Hope for America
Richard Lawson · 11/23/10 11:36AMGod Squad vs. Geek Squad: Best Buy Threatens to Sue Priest
Emily Chen · 08/17/10 02:15PMEast Coast vs. Best Buy Coast
Daniel Barnum-Swett · 03/09/10 11:45AMWhat Did Oprah Do to Destroy America Today?
The Cajun Boy · 05/21/09 07:46PMOprah, America's thuggish overlord and faux cultural tastemaker, was out there today, as she always is, polluting the airwaves with her little syndicated serf-indoctrination program, looking for something cool to run up to, drop her pants, and shit all over. What did she defecate on top of today? Skype!
Buffalo Plane Crash Kills 49
Ryan Tate · 02/13/09 01:56AMThe Blackest Friday
Richard Lawson · 11/28/08 02:30PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18m7tbrpre3jojpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
So yes, today is Black Friday, the day when big stores roll out big, one-day-only bargains in the hopes of setting a high sales bar for the all-important Holiday Season (Christmas! And, to a much lesser extent, Chanukkah!) Good savings are especially urgent this year, with the economy in the crapper and everyone needing to buy things for as cheap as possible (just short of not buying it at all. That would be ludicrous!) Every year, people line up super, super early in the morning. And in some cases, store employees get trampled to death when the doors open and crazed shoppers try to push their way in. (Un)Fortunately there is no photo documentation of that particular melee, but Getty managed to snap some shots at Macy's in New York City and at a Best Buy electronics store in Los Angeles this morning and the madness is palpable. Click after the jump for a gallery.
iPhone fails to save Best Buy's bacon
Paul Boutin · 11/12/08 10:56AM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18m7xujrie4fjjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
You can buy an iPhone at Best Buy, but more likely you won't buy anything at all this Xmas. The company's revised forecast predicts revenue between now and February may drop by 15 percent. CEO Brad Anderson's official statement is blunt: "Since mid-September, rapid, seismic changes in consumer behavior have created the most difficult climate we've ever seen ... Best Buy simply can't adjust fast enough to maintain our earnings momentum for this year." Cool, but seismic changes? Brad, come on out from Minnesota and we'll demo a real earthquake for you. (Photo by AP/Paul Sakuma)
Wal-Mart and Best Buy will sell MP3s on flash-memory cards
Paul Boutin · 09/22/08 11:40AM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.png)
SlotMusic is SanDisk's attempt to replace the CD as the brick-and-mortar media for music. Flash-memory cards, preloaded with music files, will be sold in stores like Best Buy and Wal-Mart. There aren't many other details yet, aside from a press release and the "Check back soon" SlotMusic.org site. Here's a primer on the format:
Best Buy snapping up remains of Napster
Owen Thomas · 09/15/08 10:20AM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18m8iwpe1n9mzjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Over the years, the reports of Napster's death have been greatly exaggerated. But electronics retailer Best Buy may just manage to put a stake in its heart. Best Buy is buying the online music-subscription service for $121 million — $54 million, really, after setting aside the cash in Napster's bank account. A great return on investment, considering Napster's assets last sold for $5 million out of bankruptcy in 2002, right?Wrong. Roxio, a CD-burning software company, snapped up the Napster name and the technical assets of Shawn Fanning's file-sharing startup on the cheap. But sometimes you get what you pay for. Roxio shed its software business and took the Napster name, but never figured out how to profit from it. In the last year, it lost $16.5 million. And yet Napster managed to live on. If anyone can lay it in the ground once and for all, we're betting it's Best Buy. The retailer has stumbled from one unsuccessful online-music strategy to another, most recently through a partnership with RealNetworks' also-ran music site, Rhapsody. Why doesn't Best Buy just ask Steve Jobs for more iPods to sell? That seems easier.