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Who’s Doing It Right? And How?
TWICE is pleased to formally announce the winners of our second annual Retail Innovation Awards. The Innovation Awards series is a variation on a...
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Best Buy Embodies The Best In Tech
With Circuit City but a memory and RadioShack on the ropes, Best Buy has become the default standard bearer for specialty CE retail. And...
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JCPenney (Yes, JCPenney) Becomes A Major Appliance Presence
JCPenney a TWICE award winner? Until recently, the largely apparel-driven department store chain only appeared on these pages during former Apple Store exec Ron...
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Newcomer Pirch Straddles Best Of CE, Appliance Business
There’s a new standard bearer in appliance retail and its unassuming name is Pirch. The nine-store ultra-premium kitchen, bath and appliance chain was co-founded...
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Lowe’s Blows ‘Lumber Yard’ Label Out Of The Water
Retailers, particularly those that compete in appliances with Lowe’s, The Home Depot and Menards, have been known to refer to the home-improvement channel as...
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Lowe’s Walks The Tech Walk
If any doubt remains as to Lowe’s high-tech cred, its two-year-old Innovation Labs division is out to smash it. Tasked with developing “disruptive technologies,”...
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The 2015 TWICE Retail Innovation Awards
TWICE is pleased to formally announce the winners of our inaugural 2015 Retail Innovation Awards. The Innovation Awards series is a variation on a...
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P.C. Richard Finds Renewed Vigor By Going To Bed(ding)
P.C. Richard & Son was not the first, and certainly won’t be the last, independent dealer to buttress its bottom line by entering the...
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Best Buy Reignites Its Innovation Engine Under Renew Blue Strategy
Best Buy has never been short on innovation and reinvention. Back in its formative years it rose from the wreckage of a tornado to...
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Are Friends Electric? QVC Says Yes
QVC may not be the first televised home shopping network (that distinction belongs to HSN, founded four years earlier in 1982), but it has...
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GameStop Looks To Life Beyond The Joystick
GameStop is developing a new game face. Tired of being bound to the ebb and flow of title and console cycles, and competing with...
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AT&T Retail Strategy: More Than Mobile
Communications giant AT&T doesn’t operate a typical cellphone store anymore. In its more than 2,000 physical stores, the company is rolling out interactive personalized...
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