Photo by Amber N. WileyLast week, there was some scuttlebutt that with Best Buy’s recent announcement that the electronics retailer plans to close 50 stores around the country, the location at the DC USA shopping center in Columbia Heights had been targeted for deletion.
Not so, the company announced over the weekend when it released the final list of stores it plans to shutter in 2012 as it figures out how to right its corporate outlook and better stave off the effects of “showrooming”—shoppers who browse a brick-and-mortar store for a television, video-game system or home theater and then find a more favorable price from an online retailer. Two Washington-region stores will be closed, but both are located in suburban Virginia.
The Best Buy locations at the Landmark Mall in Alexandria and at the Cosner’s Corner shopping center in Fredericksburg will close May 12 following liquidation sales, the company announced in a press release. The company said it will try to move employees of the affected stores to other locations—Best Buy is a constant presence in Northern Virginia shopping malls—or offer severance packages to workers who cannot switch to another location.
Read the full list of Best Buy stores closing:
Final Nr Enterprise Store Closure Confirmation, 4.14.12
