Future Shop, operating more than 100 stores throughout Canada, is that nation's largest electronics retailer, offering a wide selection of digital products, televisions, computers, music, and appliances. These stores are about 10,000 square feet on average. By early 2004, Magnolia Audio Video, formerly called Magnolia Hi-Fi, operated 19 stores in Washington, Oregon, and California offering high-end consumer electronics and providing expert design and installation services. In the early 2000s, Best Buy acquired two other chains: Seattle-based Magnolia Audio Video and Burnaby, British Columbia –based Future Shop.

In addition to personal computers, computer peripheral equipment, and consumer video and audio products, Best Buy outlets, which are on average about 44,000 square feet in size, offer large and small appliances, ranging from refrigerators to coffeemakers, and entertainment software, including compact discs, video games, DVD and VHS movies, and computer software. In early 2004, the company's flagship Best Buy chain included more than 600 stores in 48 states (the exceptions being Hawaii and Wyoming) as well as 19 more in Canada. is the leading consumer electronics retailer in the United States, far outpacing archrival Circuit City Stores, Inc. NAIC: 443112 Radio, Television, and Other Electronics Stores 443111 Household Appliance Stores 443120 Computer and Software Stores 443130 Camera and Photographic Supplies Stores 451140 Musical Instrument and Supplies Stores 451220 Prerecorded Tape, Compact Disc, and Record Stores 454110 Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses Incorporated: 1966 as Sound of Music, Inc.

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