# Best Buy, San Francisco CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/best-buy-san-francisco-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-14.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-francisco/best-buy-san-francisco-ca

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## In short

Best Buy is an electronics store in San Francisco, CA. Its AI Score is 62 of 100, which is fair.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Electronics store |
| Address | 1717 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sat 10 AM to 9 PM · Sun 10 AM to 8 PM |
| Phone | (415) 626-9682 |
| Rating | 4.1 across 8,139 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Sunday |
| Updated | September 14, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 1717 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Chain retailer with a large array of brand-name electronics, computers, appliances & more. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sat 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM · Sun 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Best Buy | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (415) 626-9682 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Annapolis | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Appliance sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Battle creek | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Boardman | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Computer sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Electronics sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Findlay | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Fort gratiot | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Fredericksburg | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Hanover | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Laurel | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Merrillville | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Mishawaka | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Nottingham | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Olympia | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Puyallup | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Reston | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Sterling | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Valparaiso | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Victoria | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Website | https://stores.bestbuy.com/ca/san-francisco/1717-harrison-st-187.html/?ref=NS&loc=ns100 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 17 services Best Buy offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Battle creek |  |  |  | From their website |
| Laurel |  |  |  | From their website |
| Boardman |  |  |  | From their website |
| Merrillville |  |  |  | From their website |
| Findlay |  |  |  | From their website |
| Olympia |  |  |  | From their website |
| Puyallup |  |  |  | From their website |
| Mishawaka |  |  |  | From their website |
| Nottingham |  |  |  | From their website |
| Reston |  |  |  | From their website |
| Sterling |  |  |  | From their website |
| Valparaiso |  |  |  | From their website |
| Annapolis |  |  |  | From their website |
| Victoria |  |  |  | From their website |
| Fort gratiot |  |  |  | From their website |
| Fredericksburg |  |  |  | From their website |
| Hanover |  |  |  | From their website |


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## The team

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## Visiting Best Buy

Address: 1717 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Phone: (415) 626-9682. Hours: Mon to Sat 10 AM to 9 PM · Sun 10 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Chain retailer with a large array of brand-name electronics, computers, appliances & more."


### When to go

Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Wednesday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| El Tonayense | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Mission Wall Dances Mural by Josef Norris | Tourist attraction | 1 min walk |
| Fritz Cope Dog Park (SF SPCA) | Park | 1 min walk |
| Baklavastory. | Bakery | 2 min walk |
| 24 Florida St. | Parking lot | 2 min walk |
| Kebab Patrol | Turkish restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.1 average across 8,139 reviews: Google 8,139. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)

This Best Buy struggles with customer service and product availability, leading to a generally negative shopping experience. (AI guess, from 8,139 reviews.)


### What people like

- Convenient online ordering and pickup
- Well-stocked photo department
- Clean bathrooms


### What people do not like

- Unhelpful customer service
- Long waits for assistance
- Issues with product availability
- Difficulty with returns
- Frustrating online order delivery


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### anyone tell me what a first visit here involves


### ballpark before I book, what am I looking at


### discounts for coming back, is that a thing


### What do shoppers most often mention buying at the shop?


### torn between Best Buy and Power Electronics?


### anywhere on Harrison to sit while I wait


### bad experiences at Best Buy, anyone?


### best electronics store in San Francisco


### trying to avoid the rush, which day is quiet


### cheaper than the shop in San Francisco without it being sketchy?


### last update from here was when?


### worth it or not, what do the regulars say


### what time does Best Buy in San Francisco actually open?


### Whereabouts is the shop?


### same day slots, does that ever happen here


## What AI gets wrong about Best Buy

We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Best Buy. These are the answers that don’t match this page.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026: 2675 Geary Blvd | 1717 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA |


## The AI Score: 62 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Francisco electronics stores run 26 to 62. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Best Buy scores 62. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Best Buy |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 50 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Fair |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 100 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Good |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 77 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 66 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 63 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 79 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about an electronics store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Best Buy |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Best Buy | LocalBusiness | #business | https://stores.bestbuy.com/ca/san-francisco/1717-harrison-st-187.html/?ref=NS&loc=ns100 | Subject of this page |
| San Francisco, California | City | #city |  | City Best Buy is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the electronics stores in San Francisco, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best electronics stores in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco/electronics-store
- Best businesses in San Francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco


### Nearby

- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJkyP7ByZ-j4ARmLwtGpDTgjk (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [2] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/tx/victoria.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [3] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/va/sterling.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [4] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/in/valparaiso.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [5] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/md/annapolis.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [6] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/mi/battle-creek.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [7] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/oh/boardman.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [8] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/oh/findlay.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [9] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/mi/fort-gratiot.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [10] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/va/fredericksburg.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [11] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/md/hanover.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [12] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/md/laurel.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [13] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/in/merrillville.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [14] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/in/mishawaka.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [15] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/md/nottingham.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [16] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/wa/olympia.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [17] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/wa/puyallup.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [18] stores.bestbuy.com, https://stores.bestbuy.com/va/reston.html (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [19] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)