Best Buy gets into the musical instruments biz

I went over today to the Best Buy in Santa Rosa and noticed that they now have an entire room dedicated to selling musical instruments. Has Best Buy decided to take on the likes of Guitar Center and countless other music stores in selling guitars, keyboards, drums, basses, microphones, amplifiers, studio gear, instrument repair and music lessons? Looks like it.

I asked one of the employees if all the Best Buy stores were doing this and he said that so far only about eighty-five were. He then added that Best Buy does plan to expand the dept. to all their stores. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.