Futureshop and Best Buy closing some stores across Canada

**djenkins6** · 01-31-2013, 11:09 AM

If you pre ordered BlackBerry 10 from Future Shop and Best Buy you might want to check the store is still open

Best Buy, Future Shop suddenly close stores | CTV Montreal News

**djenkins6** · 01-31-2013, 01:36 PM

Here's the list of affected stores

BEST BUY
British Columbia - Queensborough - Nanaimo - Victoria - Langford (Westshore Town Centre) - South Surrey
Quebec - Lachenaie - Sherbrooke (SmartCentres Sherbrooke)

FUTURE SHOP
Ontario - Ancaster - Barrie South - Erin Mills
Quebec - Montreal (Forum Entertainment Center) - Laval (First Pro Ste-Dorothee)
Manitoba - Regent
British Columbia - West Kelowna
Alberta - Macleod, Calgary

**Bold_until_Hybrid_Comes** · 01-31-2013, 03:49 PM

"Best Buy and Future Shop suddenly shut down several locations across Quebec and Canada on Thursday morning."

Didnt know Quebec wasnt in Canada

**BThunderW** · 01-31-2013, 10:32 PM

Depends who you ask.

Originally Posted by Bold_until_Hybrid_Comes

"Best Buy and Future Shop suddenly shut down several locations across Quebec and Canada on Thursday morning."

Didnt know Quebec wasnt in Canada

**thekidshop** · 01-31-2013, 11:15 PM

Why is this going on?? Hmm. Sounds like some big cut backs

**jmurph66** · 01-31-2013, 11:27 PM

I work there and we were told they wanted to re aline the productivity of the company by closing some big box stores. It seems that Best Buy and Future Shop are not going to build the large size stores and move on to smaller half size ones. They wanted to make sure they did not become the 'show rooms' for online shopping like what is going on in the States.
The company is really focusing on shifting to become more efficient with the online stuff while still having the store front. So by focusing on web sales they don't need as big of stores anymore, which would relate to why they closed the stores.