Best Buy Continues to Push Headphone Deals at Up to 50% Discounts

Headphones, which were expected to be among CE's holiday top sellers, remained on sale Wednesday at Best Buy, the retailer emailed customers. A large number of Beats by Dr. Dre and Jabra headphones were marked up to half off, and Sony’s 4.6-star XB950N1 active noise-canceling headphones showed a $119 sale price, down from $249. Bose’s QuietComfort 35 headphones were shaved $50 to $299. Global headphones sales in Q2 jumped 26 percent to $5.5 billion, said a Futuresource report (see 1812120003)