RICHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Best Buy on Saturday announced the locations of 50 stores that it is closing this year, including the store on West Main Street in West Dundee. Best Buy stores in Crystal Lake, McHenry and Algonquin were spared.
California will see the most closings, with seven. Six locations will close in both Illinois an Minnesota, the company's home state.
Along with the location in West Dundee, other Illinois closings include stores in Addison, Deerfield, Matteson, Mundelein and Chicago at 87th & Dan Ryan.
The struggling electronics chain said last month that it would close some of its so-called big box stores, cut 400 corporate jobs and trim $800 million in costs. Best Buy plans to open 100 smaller, more profitable Best Buy Mobile stores.
The company is trying to avoid the fate of Circuit City, which went out of business in 2009. It faces slower sales of expensive items like TVs, plus increased competition from Amazon.com and discount stores like Target.
Best Buy has already closed two stores this year, one in Missouri and one in Arizona. Most of the rest will close May 12, others this summer. Best Buy said it would try to find other jobs in the company for the workers.
On Tuesday, Best Buy said CEO Brian Dunn had resigned after the board of directors began investigating his "personal conduct." The company lost $1.7 billion in the most recent quarter, partly because of restructuring costs.