North Stafford Hits the Big Time!
April 2nd, 2008 categories: Local News
At least that’s what it felt like to most of us who live in the area when the new Best Buy store opened at Stafford Marketplace. The store opened on March 7th, 2008. And even though it might not be quite as large as the others in surrounding areas, it’s great not to have to drive up or down the road to Potomac Mills or Central Park!
I spoke with the shift manager on a recent evening and she told me that Best Buy did not anticipate the amounts of customers the store has been experiencing. I thought she must be joking, seeing all the major stores go into Central Park in Fredericksburg. There are over 120,000 people who live in the county, and a large concentration is on the Rte 610 corridor, so it surprised me to hear that they were expecting it to be much slower in this new store. In response to the high traffic the store has experienced, Best Buy is going outside their budget for the store to hire more employees. That was good to hear, since I had just waited over twenty minutes to speak to someone ab
out a cell phone and finally had to give up. Nevertheless, I’m glad they are here, giving us one less reason to travel on I-95!
