Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebranded under its current name with an emphasis on consumer electronics in 1983.
Best Buy store in Onalaska, Wisconsin
Best Buy Superstores logo from 1986 until 1989
Former Best Buy Store located in Shanghai, China, now closed and merged with Five Star
Headquarters in Richfield, Minnesota
Richfield is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota. An inner-ring suburb of Minneapolis, Richfield is bordered by Minneapolis to the north, Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport and Fort Snelling to the east, Bloomington to the south, and Edina to the west. The population was 36,994 at the 2020 census.
Corner of 66th St and Lyndale Avenue in downtown Richfield
Housing development along Washburn Avenue, circa 1950
Richfield is home to the corporate campus of Best Buy
Wood Lake Nature Center