Movin' On Up

Adding to that workload is the fact that Best Buy's store count continues to expand, with the company opening new outlets for its consumer electronics merchandise every month.

"This industry is changing so quickly, and the promotional end of that has to keep up," Neumann says.

Part of keeping up is adding to the in-plant's stock of wide-format equipment used to print a large amount of the retailer's store signage. Neumann credits increasing demand for wide-format jobs with pushing the sales increase to the 19.89 percent mark, where it rests this year.