Best Buy closing all retail stores, shifting to curbside pickup and delivery

guest · Mar 22, 2020

Best Buy closing all retail stores, shifting to curbside pickup and delivery due to COVID-19
March 22, 2020
https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/22/best-buy-closing-stores-coronavirus/

Best Buy is the latest retailer to announce that it is closing all stores due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The company will instead offer curbside pickup and delivery, much like many other retailers have done over the last week as the coronavirus pandemic evolves.

The company originally intended to keep its retail stores open, but with limited hours and a maximum number fo 15 customers in a store at a time.
Starting Sunday, March 22, Best Buy is shifting entirely to curbside service and delivery.

What this means is that customers can place an order on the Best Buy website or in the Best Buy app and request pick up at their local store. If a customer is unable to place an online order, they can go to the store and have an employee go inside to check availability: [...]
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Best Buy also acknowledges that the coronavirus pandemic is causing a surge in demand for products that people need to work from home. “We are seeing a surge in demand across the country for products that people need to work or learn from home, as well as those products that allow people to refrigerate or freeze food,” Barry said.

Best Buy is a major vendor of Apple products, while it also offers repairs for iPhones and other devices at over 1,000 locations. There’s no timetable given for when Best Buy plans to reopen its stores.
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Best Buy: A Note From Best Buy About COVID-19

ronjor · Apr 15, 2020

Best Buy to furlough about 51,000 employees as its stores remain closed to customers

Published Wed, Apr 15 2020 Melissa Repko@melissa_repko
est Buy will furlough about 51,000 hourly employees, starting April 19, but they will continue to have health benefits.
The company’s stores have continued to offer curbside pickup during the coronavirus pandemic, but they’ve been closed to customers since March 22.
The retailer said its online sales in the U.S. are up more than 250%, and about half of those sales are picked up at its stores.
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guest · Nov 17, 2020

Best Buy partners with Instacart to offer same-day delivery from 'nearly all' store locations
Supported products include games, electronics, and more
November 17, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/87638-best-buy-now-offers-same-day-delivery-nearly.html

What just happened? Best Buy is expanding its product delivery options beyond typical shipping methods soon. As part of a new partnership with Instacart, Best Buy will be able to offer same-day deliveries to the vast majority of its customers across the US. Just about every store location will support this new service with a delivery fee of just $4.

Since many of Best Buy's most popular products, such as TVs and other electronics, can cost well above $100, a $4 delivery fee should be fairly easy for the average customer to stomach.
Best Buy hasn't posted a full list of every product that will be supported through its new Instacart partnership, but it lists categories like appliances, smartwatches, gaming devices, home office essentials, headphones, and tablets as potential candidates.
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There is a catch, though: Best Buy is limiting these same-day orders to $500 or less.
If you want to give this expanded service a try, you have two options: visit the Best Buy section of Instacart's website and ensure that your local store is supported, or download the Instacart app and do the same thing.
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Instacart Launches Same-day Delivery of Best Buy Products Nationwide

New Partnership Brings Same-day Delivery of Electronics from Nearly All Best Buy Stores to Customers' Doors via Instacart
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