Best Buy Signs Lease for Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Store.Business Editors & Technology/Retail Writers MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002 Get ready, Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Best Buy is moving in at the intersection of technology and life. Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BBY BBY Best Buy (stock symbol) BBY Before Battle of Yavin (Star Wars) BBY BeBeyond (Chinese online community) ) North America's leading specialty retailer of digital and entertainment products announced the lease signing for a new store located at 2829 North Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "The new store will provide Fort Lauderdale-area residents the ultimate techno-tainment shopping experience, " said Pat Matre, Best Buy vice president of Real Estate. "We look forward to providing the area with affordable, high-tech consumer electronics and entertainment products that make life easier and more fun." Best Buy's interactive displays and broad selection of name brand electronic products, including the latest in digital technology, allows customers to "turn on the fun" while they shop. To make shopping even easier, merchandise is grouped in departments that reflect how consumers use technology in their life such as Home Theater An audio/video entertainment center that has a large-screen TV and hi-fi system with three speakers in the front (left, right and center) and left and right speakers in the rear. Starting in the early 1990s, video inputs were added to stereo receivers and preamplifiers. , Digital Imaging and Wireless Communication. The new 30,000 square foot store is scheduled to open in fall 2002. This will be the first store in Fort Lauderdale and the 30th Best Buy store in Florida. The Fort Lauderdale store is one of more than 60 new retail locations Best Buy will open throughout the U.S. in 2002. The store will employ approximately 90 full- and part-time employees in cashier CASHIER. An officer of a moneyed institution, who is entitled by virtue of his office to take care of the cash or money of such institution. 2. The cashier of a bank is usually entrusted with all the funds of the bank, its notes, bills, and other choses in , customer service, non-commissioned sales and management positions. For a complete listing of store locations, visit the Career Center on Best Buy's Web site at www.bestbuy.com. Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) is the nation's number one specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances. The Company operates retail stores and commercial Web sites under the names: Best Buy, (BestBuy.com), Future Shop (FutureShop.ca), Magnolia Hi-Fi (MagnoliaHiFi.com), Media Play (MediaPlay.com), On Cue (OnCue.com), Sam Goody Sam Goody is a music and entertainment retailer in the United States and formerly in the United Kingdom. It is owned and operated by Musicland, which itself is owned by former rival Trans World Entertainment which also runs Suncoast Motion Picture Company and, until January 2006, (SamGoody.com) and Suncoast (Suncoast.com). The Company reaches consumers through more than 1,800 retail stores nationwide in Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. and in the U.S. Virgin Islands. |
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