According to building plans shared with Around Metairie the Best Buy located at 6205 Veterans Blvd. in Metairie will see some big changes coming up which are an indicator of the future of retail in general. Any regular shopper of the store will know that like many other retailers this store has been in a state of change since the pandemic. At one point a line of cars would form in the parking lot while blue shirt wearing staffers zipped in and out of sliding glass doors of the then closed to the public showroom to bring online orders to customers. The store has been back open for some time now albeit with shorter hours.
Late last year the company installed a test system of outside in-wall lockers at a Best Buy store near their corporate headquarters. The YouTube video below shares this technology and goes on to speculate that in the future in-store robotics may even be able to load the lockers 24/7 without the need for staff to handle the task making this quite unique compared to similar lockers from Amazon & UPS already in use around Metairie & Kenner. This same style system will be installed at the Metairie Best Buy so customers won’t need to enter the store or wait in a customer service line to pick up online orders.