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A sign for a Best Buy store is displayed Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in Salem, N.H. Best Buy Co. is raising a key sales annual forecast after the nation’s largest consumer electronics chain posted better-than expected first-quarter results boosted by stimulus payments and continued nesting at the home. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Best Buy raises 2021 comparable store sales expectations

By Anne D'innocenzio May. 27, 2021 11:28 AM EDT

Shoppers are reflected in a retail store's windows, Tuesday, May 25, 2021, in Chicago's famed Loop. With vaccinations rolling out and shoppers freer to go out maskless, retailers are seeing an eager return to their stores after months of watching their customers focus on online buying during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar)

Shoppers go back to stores, but retailers face challenges

By Anne D'innocenzio May. 27, 2021 07:23 AM EDT

In this Wednesday, May 19, 2021, photograph, Bill Easton, a checker at a Safeway grocery store, is shown in the shopping center in which the store is located in Aurora, Colo. Easton, like many other workers in retail sales jobs, is fully vaccinated but is concerned about risks posed as retailers change their mask-wearing policies for customers. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Nervous workers struggle to adjust to new mask policies

By Alexandra Olson, Joseph Pisani And Anne D'innocenzio May. 20, 2021 10:28 AM EDT

A Best Buy store sign is displayed in Arlington Heights, Ill., Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. Best Buys is closing five stores in four states in the next month. The retailer plans to close two Richmond, Va., area stores, along with one store each in Syracuse, N.Y., Carbondale, Ill., and Brockton, Mass. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Best Buy cut 5,000 jobs even as sales soared during pandemic

By Joseph Pisani Feb. 25, 2021 10:41 AM EST

FILE- In this Oct. 21, 2009 file photo, a small crowd begins to gather outside a Fry's Electronics store in Renton, Wash. The electronics chain is permanently closing, citing the struggles it faced as a retailer during the coronavirus pandemic. The company, which was in business for 36 years, had 31 stores in nine states. Fry’s Electronics Inc. said it stopped regular operations and began the wind-down process of its business on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Funky electronics chain Fry's is no more

Feb. 24, 2021 07:01 AM EST

In this photo provided by the New York Stock Exchange, a specialist works at his post on the trading floor, Monday Nov. 30, 2020, in New York. Companies in the S&P 500 reported that their earnings held up surprising well in the third-quarter despite an economy still struggling to recover from the virus pandemic. (Nicole Pereira/New York Stock Exchange via AP, File)

3Q earnings offer an unexpected light in pandemic darkness

By Damian J. Troise Dec. 03, 2020 10:10 AM EST

A KidiZoom Creator Cam by VTech is displayed at the Toy Fair, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in New York. The digital camera comes with a green screen and animated backgrounds allowing kids to go to outer space, get chased by T-Rex, or make things disappear. The camera comes with a tabletop tripod, which can also be used as a selfie stick. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Holiday trends to watch: Adult Play-Doh; stores that ship

By Joseph Pisani And Anne D’innocenzio Nov. 26, 2020 10:06 AM EST

Best Buy reports 3Q results that exceed Wall Street views

By Anne D'innocenzio Nov. 24, 2020 11:41 AM EST

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 29, 2019 file photo, shoppers leave Macy's in Boston. This year’s Black Friday shopping event will be much different from ever before. Retailers will be enforcing social distancing, many stores will be closed on Thanksgiving Day and shoppers will be scooping up deals via their computer screens. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

The case for shopping on Black Friday in 2020

By Courtney Jespersen Of Nerdwallet Nov. 18, 2020 07:18 AM EST

Holiday knick-knacks are displayed at a Macy's department store Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in northeast Denver. Retailers such as Macy's have started to put out holiday items for early holiday shoppers as a way to allay fears of COVID-19 and crowds in the Christmas season ahead. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Pandemic pushes start of holiday shopping earlier than ever

By Joseph Pisani And Anne D'innocenzio Oct. 05, 2020 07:27 AM EDT

Best Buy's 2Q online sales surge but challenges remain

By Anne D'innocenzio Aug. 25, 2020 11:37 AM EDT

A currency trader watches computer monitors near screens showing the Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (KOSDAQ) and the foreign exchange rate at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 24, 2020. Worsening China-U.S. friction, worries over aid to Americans and U.S. businesses and a stumble on Wall Street combined to push shares in Asia lower on Friday. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Wall Street down after worldwide slide; gold at record high

By Stan Choe, Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga Jul. 24, 2020 02:02 AM EDT

Best Buy, Silgan rise; Snap, FirstEnergy fall

Jul. 22, 2020 04:25 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Wednesday: Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Inc., up $10.21 to $108.81. ...

FILE - In this April 6, 2020 file photo, a customer wearing a mask carries his purchases as he leaves a Target store during the coronavirus pandemic in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Target has joined a growing list of major retailers that will require customers at all their stores to wear face coverings. The Minneapolis, Minnesota-based discounter said Thursday, July 16, that the policy will go into effect Aug. 1.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

List of national retail chains requiring masks is growing

By Anne D'innocenzio Jul. 16, 2020 01:55 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 31, 2020 file photo, a woman pulls groceries from a cart to her vehicle outside of a Walmart store in Pearl, Miss. Walmart will require customers to wear face coverings at all of its namesake and Sam's Club stores. The company said the policy will go into effect on Monday, July 20, 2020 to allow time to inform stores and customers. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Walmart latest retailer to require customers to wear masks

By Anne D'innocenzio Jul. 15, 2020 07:26 PM EDT

FILE - A Best Buy employee delivers an item to a waiting client in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Best Buy, the nation's largest consumer electronics chain, will require customers to wear face coverings at all of its stores nationwide, even in states or localities that don't require them to do so. The company said Tuesday, July 14, 2020 it will provide a face covering if a customer doesn’t have one, and small children and those unable to wear one for health reasons may enter without one. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Best Buy to require customers to wear masks amid virus spike

By Anne D'innocenzio Jul. 14, 2020 04:16 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 30, 2020 file photo, bicyclists pass in front of a closed Macy's department store in Santa Ana, Calif. Macy’s warned Thursday, May 21 that it could lose more than a $1 billion during its first quarter after the coronavirus pandemic paralyzed retail operations worldwide. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Macy's hefty loss reveals challenges among mall stores

By Anne D'innocenzio May. 21, 2020 08:04 AM EDT

A currency trader walks near the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), center, and the foreign exchange rates at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, May 15, 2020. Asian shares were mixed Friday as markets meandered on news about economies reopening, mixed with worries about the prolonged health risks from the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Stocks manage modest gains but still end lower for the week

By Alex Veiga And Damian J. Troise May. 15, 2020 02:37 AM EDT