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Corie Barry

Chief Executive Officer & Director, Best Buy

Search every verified Corie Barry interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Corie Barry, CEO of Best Buy, discussed the company’s second-quarter fiscal 2026 results during an earnings call on August 27, 2026. She reported that Best Buy’s advertising business was on track to deliver 10% growth this year, building on $900 million in collections from the prior year. Barry also noted that the company’s U.S. marketplace, launched one year prior, had reached approximately $300 million in gross merchandise value (GMV) during the quarter, and she raised the full-year GMV expectation to $1.3 billion, citing stronger-than-anticipated performance. Barry addressed inventory management, attributing an uptick in inventory levels primarily to the computing category, where the company had opportunistically purchased earlier due to anticipated price increases. She stated that this frontloading was not a strategic shift but a category-specific response, and that inventory levels could return to a more regular cadence if those opportunities did not persist. Barry also highlighted the synergy between innovation and product replacement cycles as key to Best Buy’s model, noting improved attachment rates for warranties and memberships. She concluded the call by reflecting on her decade with the company, having led her first earnings call as CFO ten years prior.

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