Employer · WARN Act history · Retail Trade
Best Buy
741 workers across 6 WARN notices, primarily in IN - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 741
- Workers cut
- 6
- WARN notices
- 4
- States
- 124
- Avg / notice
Best Buy has 6 recorded WARN filings affecting 741 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Best Buy has 6 recorded filings covering 741 workers across 4 states, primarily IN, the 232nd-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Best Buy is a minor share of Retail Trade WARN activity — 0.5% of the sector's 135,000 workers across 330 employers, ranking #22 in Retail Trade.
How 741 workers split by filing year
Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.
Best Buy WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
Best Buy WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 4 states by total workers affected.
| Year | IN | CA | VA | MD | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | 106 | – | – | 106 |
| 2021 | – | – | – | 47 | 47 |
| 2012 | – | – | 64 | – | 64 |
| 2011 | 524 | – | – | – | 524 |
Best Buy city concentration · single-city dominant
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
70.7% of named-city WARN workers for Best Buy sit in Franklin (524 of 741).
Lead city Franklin · 70.7% · 5 named cities · top-3 share 87.4%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer BEST-BUY · Best Buy 741 workers · 6 filings
NOTC-MID · WORK-HEAVY · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-OVER · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-MIX
- NOTC-MID 6 filings
- WORK-HEAVY #232
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-OVER 14d
- STAT-MULTI 4 states
- BOOK-MULTI 4 agencies
- TYPE-MIX 5C/1L
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Best Buy WARN filings · notice runway
Top 5 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Franklin, IN · Closure · Retail Trade 301 workers · filed May 16, 2011 · retroactive dates
- Franklin, IN · Closure · Retail Trade 223 workers · filed Nov 3, 2011 · 89d runway
- Alexandria, VA · Closure · Other Services 64 workers · filed Apr 14, 2012 · 28d runway
- San Jose, CA · Closure · Retail Trade 60 workers · filed Jan 16, 2026 · 0d runway
- 1, MD · Layoff · Retail Trade 47 workers · filed Aug 30, 2021 · 61d runway
Median forward runway across 6 dated filings: 14 days (4 under 60d · 2 at/above 60d · 3 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - Best Buy WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2011 → 2012: WARN workers affected for Best Buy fell from 524 in 2011 to 64 in 2012; notice count fell from 2 to 1.
- 2021 → 2026: WARN workers affected for Best Buy rose from 47 in 2021 to 106 in 2026; notice count rose from 1 to 2.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2026.
Where Best Buy Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Best Buy is in the 501-1.5k bucket (#232 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- IN
- Primary Industry
- Retail Trade
- First Notice
- May 16, 2011
- Latest Notice
- Jan 16, 2026
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Jan 2026.
WARN Notice History
2026
San Diego, CA · Retail Trade
Effective: Jan 16, 2026
46
workers
Filed Jan 16, 2026
San Jose, CA · Retail Trade
Effective: Jan 16, 2026
60
workers
Filed Jan 16, 2026
2021
1, MD · Retail Trade
Effective: Oct 30, 2021
47
workers
Filed Aug 30, 2021
2012
Alexandria, VA · Other Services
Effective: May 12, 2012
64
workers
Filed Apr 14, 2012
2011
Franklin, IN · Retail Trade
Effective: Jan 31, 2012
223
workers
Filed Nov 3, 2011
Franklin, IN · Retail Trade
Effective: Mar 31, 2011
301
workers
Filed May 16, 2011
Questions about this Best Buy record
What is the largest Best Buy WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the facility closure filed for Franklin, IN on May 16, 2011, covering 301 workers in Retail Trade.
Where were Best Buy's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name San Diego, San Jose, and 1, among 5 named cities; together they form 5 facility closures and 1 mass-layoff filing sourced from California EDD and Maryland DLLR and Virginia Works and Indiana DWD. States represented in this record: CA, IN, MD, VA.
Where is Best Buy's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
70.7% of named-city WARN workers for Best Buy sit in Franklin (524 of 741).
Does Best Buy's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2011 through 2026 across 4 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Best Buy's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway clears the federal 60-day baseline; use the dated filing history to see which location and event produced it. Of 6 filings on record, 1 dated effective before the notice itself and 2 without a published effective date are excluded from that figure.
See also: IN WARN filings · Retail Trade industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Best Buy notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.