Best Buy is sometimes called the "big blue box" because of the prominent design on Best Buy stores. This store is located in East Palo Alto, California.
In Popular Culture and Sports
Best Buy is parodied in Date Movie, as "Best Bride".
Best Buy is parodied in the 2007NBC television series Chuck, appearing as the fictitious chain electronics store "Buy More".
In 2006, a group of 80 employee look-alikes from ImprovEverywhere dressed in blue polo shirts and khaki pants caused confusion at the two-story Best Buy on 23rd Street in New York.
Beginning in 2008, they will become the jersey sponsor for the Chicago Fire, in order to market their new store openings in Mexico
Best Buy was named "Company of the Year" by Forbes magazine in 2004,[3] "Specialty Retailer of the Decade" by Discount Store News in 2001,[4] ranked in the Top 10 of "America's Most Generous Corporations" by Forbes magazine,[5] and made Fortune Magazine's List of Most Admired Companies in 2006.[6]