Best Buy to idle 2,400 in Geek Squad, stores

NEW YORK — Electronics retailer Best Buy Co. will lay off 600 members of its Geek Squad technical support staff and 1,800 other store employees as it restructures operations, the company said Friday. The cuts amount to about 1.4 percent of the company's total staff of 167,000.

Best Buy is trying to combat its stores being used to test out products that consumers then buy online or at discounters.