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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 2007 NBC television series Chuck, appearing as the fictitious chain electronics store "Buy More".
The store is parodied as "Shiny Stuff" in the Disney animated short How To Hook Up Your Home Theater.
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 Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is a Fortune 100 company and the largest specialty retailer of consumer electronics in the United States and Canada, accounting for 17% of the market.^[1] The company's subsidiaries include Geek Squad, Magnolia Audio Video, Pacific Sales, and, in Canada, Best Buy Canada. Together these operate more than 1,150 stores in the United States, Canada and China.^[2] The company's corporate headquarters are located in Richfield, Minnesota, USA (near Minneapolis). On June 26, 2007, Best Buy announced a 40% increase in its operations, with plans to operate more than 1,800 stores worldwide, including 1,400 Best Buy stores in the U.S.

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]