Best Buy is turning 50, and to celebrate they’ll have a 50-hour sale. Sale starts tonight at 10 PM central time and continues until midnight on August 20th. Nearly all sales will be the same both in-store and online.
The first Best Buy store opened in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Aug. 22, 1966; at the time, it was called Sound of Music. The name changed to Best Buy in 1983.
Deals included in the Best Buy 50-Hour Anniversary Sale:
- Save $150 on select MacBook Pro computers
- Students can save an additional $150, for a total savings of $300 with Best Buy’s Student Deals program
- Save $400 on a 65-inch Samsung 4K UHD TV
- Save $180 on Beats Studio wireless on-ear headphones
- Get an iPhone 6s starting at $1 or an iPhone 6s Plus starting at $99.99 with two-year activation on Sprint or Verizon Wireless (Save $200) – or get a $200 gift card with purchase of iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus and activation with an AT&T Next plan
- Save up to 70 percent on LEGO Dimensions, Skylanders and amiibo
- Save $50 on Garmin Vivosmart HR activity tracker
- Get “Destiny” and your choice of two other select games for free with purchase of the PlayStation 4 “Call of Duty” bundle
- Get a $50 gift card with purchase of a Swagtron T1 self-balancing scooter (online only)
Seems like Best Buy got jealous of Amazon’s Prime Day; we’ll see if they manage to generate some excitement with this sale. Clearly, they didn’t hype it up in advance the way Amazon did with Prime Day.
