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For this fiscal year, Best Buy anticipates revenue will range from $41.3 billion to $42.6 billion. In a news release Thursday, CEO Corie Barry said Best Buy expects the coming year to be one "of increasing industry sales stabilization." That metric is expected to improve in the coming year, as Best Buy benefits from changes to its annual membership program, a newer moneymaker for the retailer. Like home improvement companies, Best Buy saw outsized spending as shoppers were stuck at home. Shares of Best Buy closed at $79.68 on Wednesday, bringing the company's market value to $17.16 billion.
Persons: Corie Barry, they've, Matt Bilunas, Barry Organizations: LSEG, CNBC PRO Locations: U.S
For companies that specialize in this area, like Best Buy, that has contributed to several years now of sluggish sales. AdvertisementBeyond the pull-forward effects, Best Buy CEO Corie Barry laid some of the blame for the continuing sales lull at the feet of tech brands. Indeed, tech companies haven't exactly inspired shoppers to race into their nearest Best Buy for an upgrade, especially when they could buy tickets to a Taylor Swift concert instead. Other tech companies are tossing some bold ideas at the walls too. Either way, whatever the next buzzy tech may be, Barry says Best Buy would love for you to come check it out in their stores.
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Read previewYes, "the Taylor Swift effect" is real. "Uber definitely ups its game for Taylor when she comes to town," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a Wednesday interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box." AdvertisementUber isn't the only company to make note of the "Taylor Swift effect." Not every company is happy with the Taylor Swift hype, however, Best Buy CEO Corie Barry said in October that consumer spending on Swift's concerts may be lowering her company's profits. "When you're talking about billions of trips, we're almost at 10 billion trips, you know Taylor Swift is a positive but it's not enough to show in the overall trends," he said, discussing Uber's fourth-quarter earnings.
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In his new book “The Black Ceiling” Woodson, a former attorney, sheds light on systemic issues within elite professional settings and the broader economic repercussions that come from underutilizing and marginalizing talented Black professionals. Woodson spoke with more than 100 Black professionals about what he calls the Black ceiling — a significant barrier that impedes career progression and creates stigma and anxiety in the workplace. Racial discomfort encapsulates the sense of unease that a lot of Black professionals experience working in elite white work settings. Selective punitiveness is the widespread perception that Black professionals get treated especially harshly when they make mistakes. Firms need to train their personnel, especially their senior white professionals so that they don’t judge junior Black professionals adversely for these challenges.
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How Best Buy is beating shoplifting
  + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
But Best Buy says it has shoplifting under control. Best Buy has some inherent advantages over, say, CVS because heavy flat-screen TVs are harder to steal than razor blades. Not too many things in criminology are better understood than that.”Higher levels of staffing in stores have made a difference in Best Buy’s success against shoplifting, CEO Barry said. Best Buy has security staff at the front of stores to monitor customers entering and exiting and does not have many self-checkout machines. We don’t really have self-checkout.”Lowe’s has also attributed its low theft rates to higher staffing levels in stores.
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And a steady drip of Black Friday deals, started early in November at many retailers, has also delayed the rush, as some shoppers bet that the best deals are still coming. Holiday shoppers spent 7% less in dollars and 6% less in units from mid-October to mid-November compared with the year-ago period, Circana found. Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBlack Friday state of mindAmong the biggest themes this holiday season: shoppers are hungry for deals and willing to wait for them. "We're going to have a sustained drumbeat of great offers for the entire holiday season, starting this week," he said on a call with CNBC. Some retailers, such as Best Buy, are trying to rush shoppers to hit the "buy" button by dangling short-term sales.
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War in the Middle East has prompted officials to take extra precautions at airports and shopping malls across the United States and along the route of New York's signature Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A quintessential American rite, Thanksgiving brings together family and friends for turkey dinner and watching the parade and American football on TV. It also marks the most intense week of the year for travel and start of the holiday shopping season on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. but slower economic demand has retailers concerned that the holiday season could prove lackluster. For many Native Americans, however, Thanksgiving is a day of dark reflection about the genocide that followed.
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Best Buy sees steeper decline in annual comparable sales
  + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
A Best Buy store is seen in Niles, Illinois near Chicago, September 23, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 21 (Reuters) - Best Buy (BBY.N) said on Tuesday it expects a steeper drop in full-year comparable sales, anticipating shoppers to remain selective in purchases of big-ticket items like electronics and home appliances despite elevated holiday season promotions. The company's shares, down nearly 15% this year, fell 2.4% in premarket trading after a miss on third-quarter revenue estimates. The top U.S. electronics retailer now expects annual comparable sales to decline in the range of 6.0% to 7.5%, compared with its prior range of a 4.5% to 6.0% drop. Total revenue fell to $9.76 billion in the third quarter ended Oct. 28 from about $10.59 billion a year earlier and compared with LSEG estimates of $9.90 billion.
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Best Buy, Lowe’s and Kohl’s all reported sales declines during their most recent quarter Tuesday and are forecasting holiday sales to drop from a year ago. In 2021, Holiday shopping sales spiked by 14% and grew by a healthy 5% last year. But Moody’s Investors Service said in a report today that consumers are “losing spending steam” and holiday sales will grow by just 1% to 3% this year. “Retailers offering a combination of value and non-discretionary essentials will see their sales outperform the broader retail industry this holiday season,” according to Moody’s. “One trend that’s sticking is a longer holiday season.
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REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 21 (Reuters) - Top U.S. electronics retailer Best Buy (BBY.N) on Tuesday forecast a bigger decline in annual comparable sales and pointed to "difficult to predict" consumer demand, days ahead of Black Friday that signals the start of the holiday shopping season. "In the more recent macro environment, consumer demand has been even more uneven and difficult to predict," CEO Corie Barry said in a statement. Retailers from Lowe's (LOW.N) to Walmart (WMT.N) have warned of cautious consumer spending as the holiday shopping season gets underway. U.S. holiday sales this year are expected to grow at a slower pace, according to data from the National Retail Federation. Best Buy's third-quarter revenue fell 8.2% to $9 billion in the U.S. as demand fell again across appliances, home theater, computing and mobile phones, signaling that higher discounts failed to entice shoppers.
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"In the more recent macro environment, consumer demand has been even more uneven and difficult to predict," Best Buy CEO Corie Barry said. U.S. holiday sales are expected to rise at its slowest pace in five years, according to data from the National Retail Federation, as Americans are likely to pull back on holiday shopping. REUTERS/Bing Guan/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLast week, industry bellwether Walmart (WMT.N) warned of cautious consumer spending as the holiday shopping season gets underway. Retail executives said higher interest rates, inflation and a resumption in student loan repayments will keep consumer wallets under pressure. Still, some investors expect holiday sales starting Black Friday to hold "some positive surprises."
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Best Buy cut its full-year sales outlook Tuesday, as the company weathers a period of cooler demand and prepares for price-conscious holiday shoppers. Best Buy said it now expects revenue to range from $43.1 billion to $43.7 billion for the fiscal year, down from its previous range of between $43.8 billion and $44.5 billion. CEO Corie Barry said in a news release that Best Buy anticipated softer sales of consumer electronics this year. Best Buy tends to draw customers with higher incomes than the general population, which helped to prevent a deeper decline as inflation hits consumers. Shares of Best Buy closed at $68.11 on Monday.
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Kohl’s posted on Tuesday a bigger-than-expected decline in quarterly sales, as customers spent less at its department stores. Lowe's, the nation's second-largest home improvement chain behind Home Depot, also reported drops in both sales and profits. The consumer electronics retailer posted revenue of $9.76 billion in the period, falling short of Street forecasts. In the year-ago period, sales were $10.59 billion. Best Buy expects full-year earnings in the range of $6 to $6.30 per share, with revenue in the range of $43.1 billion to $43.7 billion.
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"Funflation" refers to higher consumer demand for fun experiences, which inflates the prices of these experiences. Big ticket items in electronics are drawing less consumer interest than Taylor Swift tickets and other fun experiences, Barry said at a Fortune event. AdvertisementAdvertisementCorie Barry, the CEO of electronics retailer Best Buy, thinks that splurging on Taylor Swift tickets and "funflation" is hurting her company's bottom line. Bloomberg analysts estimated in August that Taylor Swift and Beyoncé's concert tours would add around $5.4 billion to the US economy's GDP. Best Buy and Barry did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.
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Retail executives generally agree that retail theft is worse than they've ever seen. Even so, leaders from Costco, Lowe's, Best Buy, and Tractor Supply have said their businesses aren't so affected. The companies have five striking similarities that are helping them win the war on retail theft. "Organized retail crime is worse now than I've ever seen it," Tractor Supply CEO Hal Lawton told Insider in August. Meanwhile, a typical Tractor Supply location may have as many as eight people working in a relatively small, 20,000 square-foot store.
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But Best Buy said Tuesday that theft at its stores has remained relatively stable. On Tuesday's call, Barry rattled off a list of strategies that she said has helped Best Buy combat theft. Best Buy employs security workers at store entrancesBarry said Best Buy employs asset-protection employees at its front doors. Best Buy stores have one entrance and few self-checkout registersBarry highlighted other features of Best Buy's stores as theft deterrents. Best Buy is locking away some merchandiseBarry said Best Buy has started removing some items from the sales floor that could be prime targets for thieves.
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A sale sign greets shoppers at a retail store in Carlsbad, California, U.S., May 25, 2023. Sephora "performed exceptionally well" with strength in North America in the first half of the year, the beauty retailer's owner LVMH (LVMH.PA) said last month. Retailers have also flagged the impact from Americans prioritizing experiences like movies, vacations and concerts over discretionary purchases. Tempered forecasts from sportswear retailers Foot Locker (FL.N) and Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS.N) also added to the mixed picture, with Dick's also citing an increase in organized retail crime and theft at stores. Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj KalluvilaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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Oracle (ORCL) upgraded to buy from neutral at UBS with a price target of $140. Piper Sandler increases its Broadcom (AVGO) price target to $925 from $830 ahead of earnings Thursday after the bell. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER . NO FIDUCIARY OBLIGATION OR DUTY EXISTS, OR IS CREATED, BY VIRTUE OF YOUR RECEIPT OF ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTING CLUB.
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A shopper pushes a cart with a TV in front of a Best Buy store in Chicago, Illinois, November 25, 2022. Best Buy is seeing a reversion to pre-pandemic sales levels, as consumers return to more typical spending patterns and feel pressure on their budgets because of inflation. Similar to Home Depot and Lowe's , Best Buy had outsized gains during Covid, fueled by big purchases that people don't frequently repeat. Best Buy has looked to new categories, such as health care, and launched a paid subscription program, My Best Buy, to keep driving growth. Correction: The top tier of the My Best Buy program costs $179.99 per year.
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Best Buy's CEO said we're in "the low point in tech demand after two years of sales declines." "We continue to expect that this year will be the low point in tech demand after two years of sales declines," Best Buy CEO Corie Barry said Tuesday on a call with analysts after the company reported its second-quarter earnings. Best Buy is already seeing glimmers of stabilization in categories like home theater, executives said on the call. AdvertisementAdvertisementBut first, Best Buy has to get through the rest of this year. "Best Buy faces a tough environment in which few consumers are looking to splurge on big-ticket items such as home theaters, TVs, and appliances," Stambor wrote.
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New York CNN —Best Buy expects declining tech sales to hit a low this year before stabilizing, in another sign of consumer caution around discretionary spending and retail purchases. Best Buy expects tech spending to hit a low this year before stabilizing. Bruce Bennett/Getty ImagesFor fiscal year 2024, the company now expects revenue of $43.8 billion to $44.5 billion, instead of $43.8 billion to $45.2 billion as it said in previous guidance. It expects sales at stores, websites and call centers open at least 14 months, known as comparable sales, to decline 4.5% to 6% for the year. In the quarter, comparable sales fell 6.3% domestically, year-over-year.
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That has made it tricky to predict consumer spending. The swirl of confusing trends tees up a closely watched retail earnings season that could offer more clarity about consumers and the economy. As inflation cools, the growth of average hourly earnings has begun to outpace the rise in the consumer price index. He called low unemployment "the big offset that's helped consumer spending hang in." "I thought with all of the revenge travel that's been happening, that would impact consumer spending on goods," she said.
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Televisions are seen for sale at a Best Buy store in New York City. As people buy fewer TVs, smartphones or home theater systems, Best Buy has looked for other ways to make money. It recently relaunched its membership program, My Best Buy, which charges a subscription fee and includes features like tech support, extended returns and early access to hot products. As of the end of January, Best Buy had more than 90,000 employees in the U.S. and Canada. She added that Best Buy wants to move more employees to roles where they interact with customers.
In this article BBY Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTA shopper exits a Best Buy store during Black Friday sales in Brooklyn, New York, November 26, 2021. Brendan McDermid | ReutersBest Buy said Thursday that it will double down on its membership program as consumers buy fewer discretionary items. The program will also have a new name: My Best Buy memberships. Best Buy is looking for ways to make money and drive customer loyalty as it deals with a drop in demand. In the meantime, Best Buy also has taken steps to cut costs.
Best Buy said Friday that it is laying off hundreds of store workers across the country as more of its shoppers buy online and sales of consumer electronics weaken. The retailer framed the job cuts as a shift in its priorities, saying Best Buy plans to add thousands of customer-facing employees and invest in growing areas, such as its Totaltech membership program and its health business. As of the end of January, Best Buy had more than 90,000 employees in the U.S. and Canada. Yet retailers, including Best Buy, have struck a cautious tone as shoppers pull back in some categories like consumer electronics. Best Buy is also following a period when many of its customers sprang for new laptops, kitchen appliances and home theater systems during the early years of the pandemic.
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