with inflation ticking down retail sales edging up and a few upbeat retail earnings already out early this reporting season investors may be hoping that best buy will be able to pull off another strong quarter when it reports early tuesday yet that doesn’t look like a slam dunk for the consumerelectronics chain best buy ticker bby was one of the many big retailers to chop its fullyear guidance over the summer as consumer behavior changed swiftly in the face of record inflation in august it reiterated that forecast even after turning in a betterthanexpected fiscal second quarter and the shares are now basically trading where they were when it made the initial cut to its outlook in july