Best Buy Gives Extra Push to Back-to-School Season With Birthday Sale

Best Buy is celebrating its 50th birthday with 50 “Black Friday-like” deals during a 50-hour span from 10 p.m. CDT Thursday through 11:59 p.m. Saturday, it said in a Thursday announcement. Deals are available in stores and online with free two-day shipping on almost all sale items, said Best Buy. Ahead of the expected launch of a new MacBook Pro next month, the sale includes $150 off select MacBook Pros, with students able to snip another $150 off under Best Buy’s Student Deals program. Other electronics deals: $400 off a Samsung 65-inch 4K Ultra HD TV, $180 off Beats Studio wireless headphones and $50 off a Garmin Vivosmart HR activity tracker. Customers can get an iPhone 6s for a buck, or an iPhone 6s Plus for $99, with two-year activation on Sprint or Verizon Wireless, or they can get a $200 gift card with purchase of either iPhone 6s model with activation of an AT&T Next plan, said Best Buy. Richard Schulze opened the company’s first store on Aug. 22, 1966, in Roseville, Minnesota, under the Sound of Music name before changing the name to Best Buy in 1983.