Best Buy is closing at 15750 Shady Grove Road at the 270 Center, on the border of Gaithersburg and Rockville. The home electronics and entertainment chain has set a closing date of October 26, 2024. Their space has been marketed for lease for several months, but the store's lease does not end until February 1, 2025.
Best Buy announced on a corporate earnings call that it planned to close 10 to 15 stores in 2025. Gaithersburg Best Buy customers are being redirected after October 26 to the big box chain's stores located at 1200 Rockville Pike in Rockville, and at 20914 Frederick Road in Germantown. The latter store is open, but is currently undergoing renovations.
Another nail in MoCo business ⚰️. Not a great sign of Best Buy assessment of the market dynamics here; or total lack thereof.
ReplyDeleteStop clutching those silly assed pearls and spewing your anti-MoCo venom. The corporate office is in the same boat as several other retail companies hit by more online v in person shopping. If you were properly educated, you wouldn't make stupid statements.
DeleteFunny how trolls always post this about recent closures and completely pretend recent openings just don't exist, or something.
DeleteYeah, Best Buy obviously thinks terribly of MoCo - that's why they have three other locations within spitting distance and are investing millions renovating their Germantown location.
Best Buy will still have stores five, eight, and 10 miles from Gaithersburg. All in Montgomery County.
DeleteIs very sad that Best Buy is going to close at Shady Grove
ReplyDeleteIt is to be expected. The tech guy could not figure out how to install my new HD TV. He broke a part on the TV. Their customer service was horrible.
ReplyDeleteFunny how people don’t read any economic reports and like to continue re electing leftist leaders that have for nearly two decades now run the County into the ground. Guess who has been a part of nearly all that prosperity? Your current County Executive. Pathetic.
ReplyDeleteHmm, so are a million people dumb or are you simply out of touch by thinking the county has been "run into the ground?" Which do you think is more likely?
DeleteLeftists hate facts; the County is in a population loss and clear economic downward trajectory, Read MOCO perspective and get some realpolitik in your life. Wake up.
DeleteA once bustling corner retail location is relegated to oblivion thanks to the 'Retail Apocalypse
ReplyDeleteThe Home Depot next door and the former Weis/Food Lion around the corner all have/had a reputations for very high levels of shoplifting.
ReplyDeleteBB probably has high levels of attempts, but Best Buy always has an aggressive team up front to prevent success. Corporate thought would be better to close up than to have to deal with the PR implications of a violent situation.
Don’t forget Amazon Fresh either never opened or closed quickly there as well. That’s ok, we don’t want jobs or tax revenue in the Maoist paradise that is being created at 51 Monroe Street.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget that you have no idea what you're talking about and Amazon Fresh is open and supports hundreds of jobs. 51 Monroe Street isn't what you think it is, either. Maybe you don't even live in MoCo?
DeleteThat best Buy has been there more than 30 years.
ReplyDeleteRetraction is in order; the Amazon Fresh took forever to open because there was trepidation (do you know what that word means) from their corporate to open here. Secondly, I know exactly were 51 Monroe is; basically where the sorry County Council and their Maoist ways settle on the County like a fine dust..it’s the town seat.
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