Hearing unconfirmed reports the Brandon Future Shop will convert to Best Buy. Considering Brandon does not currently have a Best Buy that would not be surprising.
One of the articles I read on the Best Buy restructuring hinted they are planning a wide rollout of the same day delivery service which was piloted in Toronto back in 2013. This would definitely make sense as an Amazon order can take close to a week to reach Winnipeg. If Best Buy can have that same product to me in under 12 hours and they will match Amazon's pricing guess where mine, and a lo of other people, will be ordering from.
Sorry, no source link as they updated the story and removed that bit.
There are also reports that while Best Buy Canada has not carried major appliances in store the withdrawal of the Future Shop brand will see that changed fairly quickly.
There is also some chatter that Best Buy should look at what Toys R Us is planning with the concept of making their stores places to come and play but in a more adult way. An easy to picture concept would be to have in-store video game tournaments. This would bring people through the doors and make the remaining stores more a place to go than a place to avoid.
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So Now Who Gonna Replace Old Future Shop Location In St James
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Too early to call. There is the Dave and Busters rumor which came about the Target site. The smaller and easier to subdivide space of Future Shop on St James would make more sense. Similar would be true for GoodLife Fitness if you think that announcement was valid. HomeSense with their one Winnipeg location could be another possibility. The biggest challenge with the Polo Park area now is it is relatively saturated making the retreat in Canadian retail hit that area especially hard. Something new to the Canadian market is another possibility but that is a wild guess at best. The typical store size and location of Future Shop would be in keeping with Kohl's but would they be willing to follow in Target's disastrous footsteps so soon? Also Primark has been rumored to be looking at Canada but those locations might be small for them but would let them quickly establish a footprint here. Time will tell as this definitely throws a wrench into the plans to find replacements for Target.
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