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At the end of fiscal 2008, we operated 923 U.S. Best Buy We also lease approximately 3.0 million square feet of
stores, 19 Pacific Sales stores, 13 Magnolia Audio Video space in 13 satellite warehouses in metropolitan markets
stores, nine Best Buy Mobile stand-alone stores and seven for home delivery of major appliances and large-screen
Geek Squad stand-alone stores, totaling approximately televisions. We also lease approximately 0.2 million square
37.5 million retail square feet. feet of space in Louisville, Kentucky, that is used by our
Geek Squad operations to service notebook and desktop
We service the operations of the Domestic segment computers.
primarily with the following distribution centers:
Our principal corporate office is located in Richfield,
Square Owned
Location Footage or Leased Minnesota, and is an owned facility consisting of four
interconnected buildings totaling approximately 1.5 million
Dinuba, California 1,028,000 Owned
square feet. Accenture, who manages our information
Findlay, Ohio 1,010,000 Leased
technology and human resources operations and conducts
Nichols, New York 720,000 Owned
certain procurement activities for us, and certain other of
Ardmore, Oklahoma 720,000 Owned
our vendors who provide us with a variety of additional
Franklin, Indiana 714,000 Owned
corporate services, occupy a portion of our principal
Staunton, Virginia 709,000 Leased
corporate office. We also lease an aggregate of
Dublin, Georgia 700,000 Leased
approximately 0.1 million square feet of corporate office
Bloomington, Minnesota 425,000 Leased
space in California for our Pacific Sales operations and in
Whittier, California 305,000 Leased
Washington for both our Magnolia Audio Video and
Total 6,331,000
Speakeasy operations.
International Segment
The following table summarizes the geographic location of our International segment stores at the end of fiscal 2008:
Canada China
Canada Best Buy Future Shop China Best Buy Five Star
Stores Stores Stores Stores
Alberta 7 15
British Columbia 7 21
Manitoba 2 5
New Brunswick — 3
Newfoundland — 1
Nova Scotia 1 3
Ontario 25 55
Prince Edward Island — 1
Quebec 8 24
Saskatchewan 1 3
Anhui —12
Henan —9
Jiangsu —99
Shandong —9
Shanghai 1—
Sichuan —6
Yunnan —4
Zhejiang —21
Total 51 131 1 160
Note: At the end of fiscal 2008, we owned three of our Canada Best Buy stores, six of our Five Star stores and our China Best Buy store.
All other stores in the International segment at the end of fiscal 2008 were leased.
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