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Polaroid Does GoPro One Better By Revisiting Its Roots
If there is one truth in the world of consumer technology, it’s that nothing stays in one place. Change is the one constant, whether...
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Are Curved TVs Just A Gimmick?
John Sciacca is one of the principals of Custom Theater and Audio in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and a frequent contributor to TWICE sister publication...
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Automatic For The People: How POS Can Save Your Business
Holding onto the customer is crucial in all of retail, but for the small business sector, it’s of the utmost importance. The time and...
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All Hype, No Harm: e-Commerce Sales Tax Won’t Kill The Internet
The conversation over Internet sales tax has assumed an apocalyptic tone. Like doomsday prophets babbling on a street corner, some people continue to claim...
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7 Facts Every Retailer Needs To Know About Price Image
In this era of price transparency, you would think that it’s easy enough for a retailer to convey its price image to potential customers....
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hhgregg: Sixty Years Of Kitchen Culture
As hhgregg celebrates its 60th anniversary, the CE, appliance and furniture chain recounts the innovations that have revolutionized the heart of the home. The...
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Bad TV Audio: Beyond The Help Of Hearing Aids
The dirty secret of TV manufacturers is that they don’t care about sound quality. An even darker secret is that consumers don’t seem to...
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How Retailers Can Make The Holidays Merrier
It’s that time of year again when retailers close the books on back-to-school sales and head into the season that will ultimately determine whether...
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Why Apple’s New iPhone Won’t Include Wireless Charging
Apple fanboys and fangirls are anxiously awaiting the introduction of the new iPhone on Wednesday, but wireless charging is one new feature that’s not...
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You Can’t Afford to Misread Elusive Millennial Shoppers
The back-to-school holiday (second largest revenue generating holiday for retailers) has grown a whopping 42 percent over the past 10 years. This year alone,...
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How Target Got Its E-tail Groove On
When Target released its Q2 2015 earnings report, shareholders were pleasantly surprised. The retailer surpassed Wall Street expectations and its own high-end forecast. The second...
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Consumers Slow to Embrace Apple Pay
Will Apply Pay ring the cash register for the most profitable company in the world? If indications are accurate of recent U.S. consumer reaction...
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How To Maintain Healthy Margins In A Cutthroat Category
Promotions have always played an important role in retailing strategy. Whether to clear the shelves of last year’s models (or slow-moving inventory in general)...
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Death Of The Salesman?
With the explosion of online retail giants like Amazon.com, the new digital economy has turned traditional consumer buying behavior upside down, making your everyday...
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How Turnkey Aftersales Solutions Open Doors For Smartphone OEMs
There is now a mobile device out there for every type of customer, ranging from the adventurous to the cost-conscious and the luxury-seeker. Thanks...
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Unlocking Growth With The Right Payment Options
Here’s a newsflash: Money and the way that we use it are changing right in front of our eyes. Businesses have taken notice. In...
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Subscription Commerce: Reshaping The Future of CE Retail
Consumers are increasingly foregoing the security of owning things for the affordable flexibility of on-demand access – and according to Goldman Sachs, millennials are...
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A Letter To Logitech’s Competitors
When a company makes major changes to its brand it usually signifies a strategic shift in direction. This can be triggered by numerous things,...
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IoT’s Missing Link
There were thousands of new products and innovations introduced at this year’s CES – many within the connected-life segment of the Internet of Things...
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The First Phase Of Robotics In The Home
New research from Parks Associates reports that more than 6 percent of U.S. broadband homes currently own a robotic vacuum cleaner and adoption will exceed 11...
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Predictions About Amazon Prime Day
Amazon plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its launch with Prime Day, which will offer Prime members a series of flash deals from...
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Collaboration Is Key With IoT
For many years, members of this industry have been wary about sharing their intellectual property with others. They believed doing so would jeopardize their...
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What’s In A Name
I have spoken to many tech founders recently and have noticed a trend worth talking about for a moment. The discussion generally happens as...
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Talk To The Tablet
Let me set the scene: Philadelphia airport, F concourse, Friday afternoon and I am heading home after a long week of training. I had...
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GetGeeked San Francisco
Last week I attended GetGeeked here in San Francisco. If you’re not familiar, GetGeeked is like a consumer tech meet-up with drinks and food....
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10 Surprising Things We Learned From Our Father’s Day Survey
When it comes to Father’s Day gifts, power tools, neckties and whiskey are bound to be high on most dads’ wish lists. Or are...
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Why (And How) Retailers Should Embrace ‘Nomophobia’
People are addicted to their smartphones. So much so, there is now a clinical term for the psychological attachment some people have to their...
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Is Your Brand The Charm Or The Bracelet?
“We want to be Apple.” There is no sentence we fear more in our business than this. It’s our version of “Make the logo...
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Dealing With Disruption
The widespread impact from the labor dispute at West Coast ports earlier this year is still rippling through the U.S. economy, with many companies...
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The 10 Worst Retail Sales Habits And How To Break Them
We’ve all tried to spend more hours at the gym, or give up sugary drinks, but as anyone who’s ever tried knows, bad habits...
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Why Wall-E Is Scarier Than The Terminator
Last month was the Internet of Things Conference in San Francisco, where the vast floor of the Moscone Center was filled with companies trying...
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The Case for Live Training
Let me start by saying that I completely understand the need for computer-based and virtual training in today’s retail environment. Shrinking margins and decreased...
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Digital Living: IoT & The Connected Consumer
For consumers around the world, the Internet of Things (IoT) opens the door to a new and convenient connected lifestyle. The wide range of...
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Privacy In The Digital World
What does it mean when we talk about privacy in the information age? Does “privacy” mean the same thing it did 20, even 10...
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The Three Reasons People Still Love Nokia
As we steam into summer, we are about to see the annual appearance of veteran rockers strapping on the guitars for one more round...
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The Apple Watch Offers Retailers Another Path to Customers
The Apple Watch recently started shipping to consumers who placed online orders with the tech giant. According to early estimates, almost a million people...
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Retail Revisited: Keeping Showrooms Relevant
Showrooming has plagued brick-and-mortar retailers for many years, with e-commerce quickly chipping away at in-store sales. Recently however, experts report the rising trend is...
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Has Celebrity Endorsement Jumped the Shark?
Long ago in 2008, Beats by Dre was launched to an unsuspecting world. Unsuspecting in that its approach to the audience was dramatically different....
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Will IoT Live Up To The Hype?
Remember the dawn of the Internet? Remember all the skeptics who didn’t see its transformational genius? Remember how it became enormous? It’s happening again....
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On Starpower’s Success
The following is in response to“Have You Heard The News?”a recent letter by TWICE VP/publisher Ed Hecht. The real question that has haunted many retailers:...
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Five Things Online Merchants Should Know Before Entering New International Markets
Late last year, Digital River commissioned Forrester Consulting to survey 130 executives and decision-makers at branded manufacturers in the U.S. and U.K. We wanted...
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Return To Sender
Wrong color. Missing parts. Damaged. Ill-fitting. Returns are pretty much unavoidable in the world of online retail. Most merchants would agree they’ve had to...