Best Buy
Best Buy Co.,Inc.
Richfield, Minnesota, USA


Best Buy was founded in 1966 by Richard M. Schulz in Saint Paul, Minnesota as an audio speciality store. In 1983 they started expansion under the new corporare name "Best Buy Co., Inc." hitting $1 billion revnues in 1992. Today Best Buy, often called the "big blue box" is the largest retailer for consumer electronics in the United States and Canada, accounting in 2008 for more than 20% of the market.

In Canada most stores are operated under the Future Shop label. 

In 2008 Best Buy started to release some well-known calculators with the Texas Instruments brand in unusual colors. e.g. the TI-30X IIS in pink and TI-84 Plus SE in blue. 


Source : Joerg Woerner, Datamath Calculator Museum