MINNEAPOLIS–Best Buy plans to open a store in New York that will be open 24 hours a day during certain days of the week.
Located in Union Square on the corner of 14th Street and Fourth Avenue, the store will be open each week from 8 a.m. on Monday to midnight on Saturday. The store will reopen at 10 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. each Sunday. The extended hours are intended to provide options to the downtown Manhattan community, in particular students at local universities and many residents who have schedules that conflict with traditional store hours.
Noting New York’s reputation as “the city that never sleeps,” Brian Dunn, Best Buy’s chief executive officer, said Manhattan is “the perfect location” for a 24-hour store. “Today’s consumers have hectic lifestyles that don’t always conform to traditional retail hours,” Dunn said in a company statement.