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Old 03-28-2015, 09:30 AM   #45
Senator Clay Davis
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Originally Posted by Slava View Post
No real job loss or anything though, just changing from Future Shop to Best Buy as I understand?
1,500 jobs
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The company says 65 Future Shop locations will be closed for a week and re-opened under the Best Buy name. Another 66 stores that are located close to current Best Buy stores will be closed permanently.

The company says 500 full-time and 1,000 part-time jobs will be eliminated.
http://globalnews.ca/news/1909295/fu...074f66beaa911e

This is just going to become more commonplace in retail. Bricks and mortar is on the way out, and when Amazon gets the drones going it might get even worse.
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