49-682: The Heroin Diaries may refer to: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star , a book by Nikki Sixx The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack , an album by Sixx's band Sixx:A.M. The Heroin Diaries - X-Mas In Hell , an EP by Sixx:A.M. "Heroin Diaries", a song by Ligeia from Bad News Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
98-575: A Minnetonka, Minnesota -based retailer that sold home-entertainment products under the Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company, Media Play, and OnCue brands. Best Buy purchased the company for $ 425 million in cash and the assumption of $ 271 million of Musicland debt. Later that year, Best Buy acquired the British Columbia , Canada-based electronics-chain Future Shop Ltd. , marking its entrance to
147-644: A Seattle -based broadband VOIP , data, and IT services provider. The acquisition was worth $ 80 million, and under terms of the deal, Speakeasy began operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy. The company's products also became part of Best Buy's For Business program. Best Buy also expanded its Geek Squad market tests in March, opening Geek Squad precincts in FedEx Kinkos stores located in Indianapolis and Charlotte, North Carolina . In October 2007, Best Buy became
196-507: A Best Buy-branded mobile retailer. Best Buy Mobile standalone stores were opened in shopping malls and urban downtowns. These Best Buy Mobile outlets were also added in all Best Buy-branded stores. In June 2009, Brian J. Dunn became Best Buy CEO. Dunn replaced Brad Anderson, who was retiring. Dunn had joined Best Buy in 1985 as a sales associate. In 2000, Dunn became senior vice president of East Coast operations and president of North American retail operations in 2004. His most recent position
245-650: A business partner opened Sound of Music, an electronics store specializing in high fidelity stereos in St. Paul, Minnesota . Schulze financed the opening of his first store with his personal savings and a second mortgage he took out on his family's home. In 1967, Sound of Music acquired Kencraft Hi-Fi Company and Bergo Company. Sound of Music earned $ 1 million in revenue and made about $ 58,000 in profits in its first year. In 1969, Sound of Music had three stores and Schulze bought out his business partner. Sound of Music operated nine stores throughout Minnesota by 1978. In 1981,
294-466: A centralized service desk and implementing a "store-within-a-store" concept for Pacific Kitchen & Bath and Magnolia Design Center. In April 2012, Brian Dunn resigned as Best Buy's CEO during an internal company investigation into allegations of personal misconduct stemming from an inappropriate relationship with a female Best Buy employee. Best Buy named Director George L. Mikan III interim CEO following Dunn's resignation. The internal investigation
343-539: A class-action lawsuit filed against them in April 2010 by consumers who claimed Best Buy was making unsolicited phone calls in contravention of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act . In the second quarter of 2007, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ordered an investigation into the company's use of an in-store website alleged to have misled customers on item sales prices. In December 2007,
392-636: A high-volume, low-price business model, which was borrowed partially from Schulze's successful Tornado Sale in 1981. In its first year, the Burnsville store out-performed all other Best Buy stores combined. Best Buy was taken public in 1985, and two years later it debuted on the New York Stock Exchange . In 1988, Best Buy was in a price and location war with Detroit -based appliance chain Highland Superstores , and Schulze attempted to sell
441-550: A hospitality conglomerate, since 2008. He led initiatives such as price matching, speeding up delivery times for online purchases, establishing " store within a store " sections for major brands such as Apple , Google , Microsoft , and Samsung , and giving more product training to employees. In April 2013, Best Buy exited the European consumer electronics market when it sold its 50% stake in The Carphone Warehouse back to
490-700: A majority interest in Chinese appliance retailer Jiangsu Five Star Appliance for $ 180 million. At the time of the deal, Jiangsu was the fourth-largest appliance chain in China with 193 stores across eight Chinese provinces. In June, the company opened Geek Squad precincts at Office Depot in Orlando, Florida . The market test was later expanded to Denver . In January 2007, the first Best Buy-branded store in China officially opened in Shanghai. In March 2007, Best Buy acquired Speakeasy,
539-507: A position he had held since 1991. In September of that year, Best Buy opened the first Canadian Best Buy-branded store in Mississauga, Ontario . In October, Best Buy acquired Minneapolis-based Geek Squad, then a 24-hour residential computer repair business with offices in Minneapolis, Chicago , Los Angeles , and San Francisco . Best Buy stores in the U.S. surpassed the 600-store mark and
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#1732890704920588-775: A single campus in Richfield, Minnesota . In January 2004, Best Buy hired Virtucom Group to revamp Best Buy's website and handle all of the company's online content. In May, the company launched its "customer centricity" program, which segmented its stores according to customer profiles. The program also called for employees to focus on specific customer groups rather than product categories. In October, Best Buy completed rolling out Geek Squad "precincts" in every American Best Buy store. In April 2005, Best Buy began eliminating mail-in rebates in response to negative customer reaction against them, and instead started giving out instant rebates via notebook computers. In May 2006, Best Buy acquired
637-657: A stock room, had fewer salespersons and provided more self-help product information for its customers. Best Buy also did away with commissioned salespeople. The commission-free sales environment "created a more relaxed shopping environment free of the high-pressure sales tactics used in other stores," but was unpopular with salespersons and suppliers. Upset that their products would no longer be pushed by salespeople, some suppliers such as Maytag , Whirlpool , and Sony stopped selling in Best Buy stores altogether. The suppliers returned after Best Buy's sales and revenue grew following
686-462: A wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy in 2009. In December 2011, Best Buy purchased mindSHIFT Technologies, a company that provided IT support for small and medium-sized businesses, for $ 167 million. In 2012, in response to overall revenue decline, Best Buy announced plans to undergo a "transformation strategy". Stores began to adopt a redesigned "Connected Store" format, providing the Geek Squad with
735-502: Is executive chairman of Best Buy, having been succeeded as CEO by Corie Barry in June 2019. According to Yahoo! Finance , Best Buy is the largest specialty retailer in the United States consumer electronics retail industry. The company ranked number 72 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. On August 22, 1966, Richard M. Schulze and
784-444: Is the debut studio album by Sixx:A.M. , a side project of Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx . The band also features lead vocalist James Michael and guitarist DJ Ashba . The concept album serves as the companion soundtrack to Sixx's autobiography, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star , and is about Sixx's severe heroin addiction in 1987. The first single, " Life Is Beautiful ," debuted at number 26 on
833-524: The Los Angeles Times reported on the same issue, in which some customers claimed they thought they were surfing the Internet version of bestbuy.com at an in-store kiosk only to learn that the site reflected in-store prices only. In response, company spokesperson Sue Busch indicated the in-store kiosks were not intended for price-match purposes and rather were a means to navigate in-store availability. Since
882-494: The Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Designed to be an accompaniment to The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star , the autobiography of Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx co-written by Sixx and Ian Gittens that details his severe heroin addiction in 1987, The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack is a concept album that captures Sixx's basic story of his life during that time, although
931-456: The HD DVD format, a move which ultimately contributed to Toshiba's decision to drop HD DVD. In May, the company agreed to buy 50% of the retail division of The Carphone Warehouse, a London, England -based mobile phone retailer. The deal was worth $ 2.1 billion. In July 2008, Best Buy announced that it would start selling musical instruments and related gear in over 80 of its retail stores, making
980-529: The Roseville location, at the time the largest and most profitable Sound of Music store, was hit by a tornado. The store's roof was sheared off and showroom destroyed, but the storeroom was left intact. In response, Schulze decided to have a "Tornado Sale" of damaged and excess stock in the damaged store's parking lot. He poured the remainder of his marketing budget into advertising the sale, promising "best buys" on everything. Sound of Music made more money during
1029-514: The Best Buy Mobile and Insignia brands in North America, plus Five Star in China. Best Buy sells cellular phones from Verizon Wireless , AT&T Mobility , T-Mobile , Boost Mobile and Ting Mobile in the United States. In Canada, carriers include Bell Mobility , Rogers Wireless , Telus Mobility , their fighter brands , and competing smaller carriers, such as SaskTel . Hubert Joly
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#17328907049201078-668: The Canadian franchises of RadioShack , which were later acquired by Circuit City and, in turn, Bell)—which primarily operates in malls and smaller markets—would be rebranded as Best Buy Express. The stores will receive inventory from Best Buy and integrate with its e-commerce operations, but will continue to otherwise be owned and operated by BCE under license , and exclusively offer wireless services from Bell Canada and its subsidiaries. The first location opened in Surrey, British Columbia in June 2024; 167 of The Source's locations will be renovated to
1127-447: The European market in April 2013, selling its stake in the business back to its partner Carphone Warehouse . Best Buy also produces products under eight house brands : In 2000, two Florida consumers brought a lawsuit against the company, alleging that it engaged in fraudulent business practices related to the sale of extended warranties (or, more accurately, service plans ). The suit claimed that store employees had misrepresented
1176-437: The U.S. as of May 2011. A deluxe edition of The Heroin Diaries was released on November 25, 2008, exclusively on sale through Best Buy . The deluxe edition features the original album and a bonus live EP, entitled Live Is Beautiful . This EP was recorded from several performances over their summer 2008 tour on Crüe Fest . The EP is also sold separately for those who already have the original album. On October 26, 2017,
1225-553: The UK-based mobile phone retailer. The sale was worth around $ 775 million. An increasing trend towards online shopping began to erode revenues and profits in the 2010s. A 4% dip in sales for the June 30, 2014, quarter, marked the 10th quarter in a row where Best Buy's sales had declined. The company, in announcing the result, said it was focusing more on digital media in its marketing, moving away from newspaper, magazine, and television advertising. On March 28, 2015, Best Buy announced
1274-545: The United Kingdom, all of which were closed in early 2012. In November 2011, Best Buy purchased The Carphone Warehouse's share of Best Buy Mobile for $ 1.3 billion. Best Buy and The Carphone Warehouse maintained their Best Buy Europe joint venture, which at the time operated 2,500 mobile phone stores throughout Europe. The company closed all of its Best Buy-branded stores in China by February 2011, when it merged Best Buy China's operations with Jiangsu Five Star, which had become
1323-463: The album can stand alone. The story begins with the reasons for Sixx starting his diary, followed by his first (albeit temporary) abstinence from heroin, his relapse and mental and physical decline, his near-fatal overdose and out-of-body experience , and finally, his emotional recovery, which eventually led to long-term sobriety. The 13 tracks on the album each correspond to one month of his diary, which he kept from December 1986 to December 1987. Some of
1372-509: The band released the 10th anniversary edition of the album, which features additional tracks; re-recordings in alternate arrangements of "Life Is Beautiful", "Accidents Can Happen", and "Girl with Golden Eyes". All lyrics are written by James Michael and Nikki Sixx , except where noted The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack , noted by many for showcasing a more emotional sound than, and a musical departure from Sixx's other band, Mötley Crüe , has been received very positively. Jim Kaz of IGN , praising
1421-497: The company cut its forecast for the remainder of 2022. On October 13, 2023, Best Buy announced that it would phase out the sale of home video on physical media in early 2024, citing changes in the market due to the prevalence of streaming video on demand services. On January 18, 2024, BCE Inc. announced an agreement with Best Buy's Canadian division, under which selected locations of its competing chain The Source (originally
1470-572: The company opened its first global-sourcing office in Shanghai in 2003. In June, Best Buy divested itself of Musicland in a deal with Sun Capital Partners under which Sun Capital received all of Musicland's stock and debt. Best Buy launched its "Reward Zone" loyalty program in July following an 8-month test of the program in San Diego, California . Also in 2003, Best Buy's corporate offices were consolidated into
1519-552: The company the second-largest musical-instrument distributor in the US. Best Buy became the first third-party retail seller of Apple's iPhone in September. Later that month, the company agreed to acquire Napster for $ 121 million. In December, Best Buy opened its first store in Mexico. In February 2009, Best Buy leveraged its partnership with The Carphone Warehouse to launch Best Buy Mobile,
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1568-406: The company to Circuit City for US$ 30 million. Circuit City rejected the offer, claiming they could open a store in Minneapolis and "blow them away." In 1988, the company introduced a new store concept dubbed "Concept II". Concept II replaced dimly lit industrial-style stores with brighter and more fashionably fixtured stores. Stores also began placing all stock on the sales floor rather than in
1617-427: The company's revenue. On May 9, 2018, the company unveiled a new logo for the first time in nearly three decades. On July 2, 2018, Best Buy announced it was cutting the amount of store space devoted to selling physical music, citing the popularity of streaming services as having reduced sales. On April 15, 2019, Best Buy announced that in June 2019, its current CFO, Corie Barry, would replace Hubert Joly who held
1666-427: The emotional lyrics of the album, called it "not really an album but rather a musical book. It is almost impossible to recommend any specific songs over others." Best Buy Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota . Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it
1715-615: The entrance designed to look like a blue box emerging from the structure. Corporate employees operated under a results only work environment from 2005 until March 2013, when the management style was abandoned by Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly. As of October 29, 2016, Best Buy operated 1,026 Best Buy, 331 Best Buy Mobile stand-alone stores, and 28 stand-alone Pacific Sales stores in the US. Best Buy also operated: 135 Best Buy and 53 Best Buy Mobile stand-alone stores in Canada; and 18 Best Buy stores and 5 Best Buy Express stores in Mexico. Best Buy exited
1764-612: The first consumer-electronics retailer to exit the analog television market, carrying only digital products that became mandatory in June 2009 by the FCC . In February 2008, Best Buy opened its first store in San Juan, Puerto Rico . Best Buy's Geek Squad market tests in Office Depot and FedEx Kinkos stores ended by March. Also in March, the company began promoting the Blu-ray optical-disc format over
1813-755: The format by the end of 2024, with the remaining locations being closed. Best Buy sells consumer electronics and a variety of related merchandise, including software, video games, music, mobile phones, digital cameras, car stereos, and video cameras, in addition to home appliances (washing machines, dryers, and refrigerators), in a noncommissioned sales environment. Under the Geek Squad brand, Best Buy offers computer repair, warranty service, and accidental service plans. Best Buy provides an online community forum for members, where consumers can discuss product experiences, ask questions, and get answers from other members or retail product experts. The building exteriors of Best Buy-branded stores are typically light brown, with
1862-507: The four-day sale than it did in a typical month. In 1983, with seven stores and $ 10 million in annual sales, Sound of Music was renamed Best Buy Company, Inc. The company also expanded its product offerings to include home appliances and VCRs , in an attempt to expand beyond its then-core customer base of 15- to 18-year-old males. Later that year, Best Buy opened its first superstore in Burnsville, Minnesota . The Burnsville location featured
1911-482: The international marketplace. Under the deal, Future Shop was purchased for about US$ 377 million and continued to operate as subsidiary independent from Best Buy Canada. Brad Anderson succeeded Richard Schulze as Best Buy CEO in July 2002. Anderson had begun working at Best Buy in 1973 while attending seminary school. He was promoted to vice president in 1981 and executive vice president in 1986. Anderson had most recently served as president and COO of Best Buy,
1960-493: The manufacturer's warranty to sell its own Product Service/Replacement Plan and that Best Buy had "entered into a corporate-wide scheme to institute high-pressure sales techniques involving the extended warranties" and that the company used "artificial barriers to discourage consumers who purchased the 'complete extended warranties' from making legitimate claims." The company ultimately settled for $ 200,000, but admitted no wrongdoing. In 2014, Best Buy settled for $ 4.55 million in
2009-496: The position of CEO since August 2012. Joly subsequently became executive chairman of the company. Despite an increase in sales of computer equipment due to an increase in remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic , Best Buy laid off over 5,000 employees in early 2021 and forced many others into part-time positions. In August 2022, Best Buy said it would be laying off employees across the country after warnings of weaker sales, and
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2058-818: The roll-out of Concept II. In 1992, the company achieved $ 1 billion in annual revenues. Its Midwest rival, Highland would file for bankruptcy in the same year and close all locations by 1993. In 1994, Best Buy debuted "Concept III" stores in several new markets including Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Concept III stores were larger than previous stores and included expanded product offerings, "Answer Center" touchscreen kiosks that displayed product information for both customers and employees, and demonstration areas for products such as surround sound stereo systems and video games. Best Buy launched its "Concept IV" stores with its expansion into New England in 1998. Concept IV stores included an open layout with products organized by category, cash registers located throughout
2107-520: The shutdown of the Future Shop chain in Canada; 65 of its 131 former locations were converted into Best Buy locations, while the rest (primarily those in close proximity to an existing Best Buy) were closed permanently. On March 1, 2018, the company announced that it would shut down its 250 standalone Best Buy Mobile stores in the United States by the end of May, due to low revenue and high costs. The Best Buy Mobile stores were reported to account for 1% of
2156-661: The store, and slightly smaller stores than Concept III stores. The stores also had large areas for demonstrating home theater systems and computer software. In 1999, Best Buy was added to Standard & Poor's S&P 500 . In 2000, Best Buy formed Redline Entertainment, an independent music label and action-sports video distributor. The company acquired Magnolia Hi-Fi, Inc., an audio-video retailer located in California , Washington , and Oregon , in December 2000. In January 2001, Best Buy acquired Musicland Stores Corporation,
2205-661: The title The Heroin Diaries . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Heroin_Diaries&oldid=892175194 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack , often referred to as simply The Heroin Diaries ,
2254-548: The tracks feature spoken word featuring Sixx himself reading some lines from the book. " Life Is Beautiful ", the first single off the album, was originally posted on Sixx's MySpace page; after "[picking] up momentum", it debuted at #26 on the Billboard rock singles chart. It peaked at number 2 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The album was released on August 21, 2007. It has sold 344,000 copies to date in
2303-492: Was as president of Best Buy since 2006. In November 2009, Best Buy partnered with Roxio's CinemaNow to launch an on-demand streaming service which allowed streaming from any Internet device sold by Best Buy. In December 2009, Best Buy opened its first Turkish store in İzmir . In April 2010, Best Buy opened its first United Kingdom -based Best Buy-branded store in Thurrock . The company eventually opened 11 Best Buy stores in
2352-564: Was rebranded under its current name with an emphasis on consumer electronics in 1983. Best Buy operates internationally in Canada, and formerly operated in China until February 2011 (when the faction was merged with Five Star) and in Mexico until December 2020 (due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic). The company also operated in Europe until 2012. Its subsidiaries include Geek Squad , Magnolia Audio Video, and Pacific Sales . Best Buy also operates
2401-468: Was released in May 2012 and alleged that Best Buy founder and chairman Richard Schulze knew of Dunn's inappropriate relationship and failed to notify the Best Buy board. Schulze subsequently resigned his chairmanship of the company. Best Buy Director Hatim Tyabji replaced Schulze as Best Buy chairman. In September 2012, Hubert Joly replaced Mikan as Best Buy CEO. Joly had previously served as CEO of Carlson ,
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