Future Shop
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Future Shop was a Canadian electronic retailer. It was headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia. The largest Future Shop in Canada was in Edmonton, Alberta. It was purchased on November 4, 2001 for $580 million by Best Buy.[1] It was founded in 1982 by Hassan Khosrowshahi, an Iranian entrepreneur who settled in Vancouver, British Columbia after leaving Iran.[2]
On March 28, 2015, it was announced by Best Buy that they had decided to retire the Future Shop brand and close 66 locations.[3] The former Future Shop locations were re-opened as Best Buy stores.[4] In 2014 and 2015, stores in New Westminster, Nanaimo, Victoria, Langford, Surrey, Lachenaie, Sherbrooke,[5][6] Boucherville, Greenfield Park, Montreal, Ottawa,[7] Regina,[8] Kingston,[9] New Minas, and New Glasgow[10] were closed.
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