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RadioShack: A Post Mortem
The following analysis was posted after RadioShack’s first bankruptcy in 2015. Given the developments of the last two weeks, we think it’s worth revisiting....
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OnePlus’ ‘Lick of Love’ May Make You Sick Of Love
Acclaimed smartphone contender OnePlus started off with a solid premise: a profession of love on Valentine’s Day. Posted on YouTube and hashtagged #LICKOFLOVE, the...
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Live From CES, It’s Saturday Night!
Amid all the hoopla that was CES 2017 was a celebrity appearance that received remarkably little play. SNL cast members Colin Jost and Michael...
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A Letter From A Customer
Cohen’s Electronics & Appliance is an independent, single-showroom dealer in Montgomery, Ala. The company’s buying organization, the Nationwide East division of the Nationwide Marketing...
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The Best Gadget To Have In A Zombie Apocalypse
You never know when a zombie apocalypse is coming down the pike. So as scribes of technology, and in keeping with the old scouting adage...
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The ‘P’ Word
Warning: The following rant has nothing at all to do with consumer electronics or appliances. I’m mad at Donald Trump. No, he never flunked...
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For What It’s Worth
When Sports Authority filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, the plan was to close a third of its stores and make a...
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Staples, Office Depot: The Gloves Are Off
If the presidential campaign has done anything, it has reinforced the notion that politics makes strange bedfellows: For over a year now, archrivals Staples and...
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The Blizzard Of 2016: The Gods Must Be Angry
As if we needed another reminder of man’s minor place in the cosmos, here we were, all warm and fuzzy after a rather inspiring...
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Star Wars? Oh Go Sit On A Light Saber
I hate to be a sci-fi Grinch, but enough already with the Star Wars. You can’t turn on a TV this month without a...
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Happy Birthday Amazon: An Anniversary Memoir
What a long, strange trip it’s been. The world was so much different 20 years ago, when a fledgling Amazon.com first when live online....
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Hold Your Horses, Jane Jetson
Word this morning of an AllJoyn-based common platform that could connect smart household appliances regardless of brand is welcome news for an industry that’s...
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Windows 10 More Of A Six
Apologies in advance to my new friends at Microsoft, Intel, HP, Asus, Toshiba and Lenovo, but Win10 has won mixed reviews at the Wolf...
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Pitching Sam’s Club: An Insider’s Account
In this week’s issue of TWICE we reported on a novel sourcing program that Sam’s Club launched last year in its quest for novel,...
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The Times They Are A-Changin.’ Finally.
A confluence of key retail events this month – the annual ProSource Spring Meeting in San Antonio and Walmart’s shareholders’ gathering in Arkansas –...
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The Best And Worst Of Times For Dealers
It’s a classic glass-half-full, glass-half-empty scenario for CE retail. As TWICE’s annual Top 100 CE Retailers Report shows, the largest merchants selling consumer-tech goods...
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TigerDirect Defanged
As RadioShack receives a new lease on life, a chapter closes on another less-storied technology chain. Systemax, the IT supplier, announced last month that...
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The End May Be Nigh For RadioShack
There are conflicting reports coming out of this week’s bankruptcy auction for RadioShack. Depending on whose unnamed sources you believe, either Standard General won the...
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Apple Watch Features The Media Missed
The humorists at The Onion provided the following list of notable Apple Watch features that were overlooked in the launch hoopla: * 3-megapixel camera enables users to take...
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RadioShack Revisited
Hey, we hate to kick a company when it’s down, but we just couldn’t resist the following twisted timeline from satire publication The Onion....
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Super Bowl Spells Super Claims For Mobile Mishaps
SquareTrade, the branded extended service provider, has released its annual Super Bowl damage report for mobile devices. The numbers should either make you run...
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Throwback Thursday: Of Spiffs, Spliffs and Turntables
TWICE’s founding editor Bob Gerson used to argue that home video technology was driven largely by demand for adult entertainment. To that I would...
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Top Five Take-Homes (Not Takeaways) From 2015 CES
If you’re looking for an incisive analysis of the macro trends that will shape the CE industry in years to come, look elsewhere on...
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Majap Marvels
Over the past several years major appliances have enjoyed an increasingly higher profile at International CES, and last week’s show was no exception. CES’ largest...
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‘Walking Dead’ Divided On Digital
TWICE can’t get its fill of convention halls. Even with the mother of all trade shows just a couple of weeks away, we couldn’t not...
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E-tailers Look For The Green This Monday
E-tailers are mounting their third major promotional barrage of the season today in an effort to squeeze any remaining sales from shopping-weary consumers. So-called...
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Walmart, Target Strike Thanksgiving Gold
Walmart and Target customers proved they could have their turkey and eat it too. While some shoppers shunned brick-and-mortar stores on Thanksgiving Day, the...
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The Best Laid Plans
Black Friday’s no fun anymore. The whole tradition has changed from just a few scant years ago, when early on Thanksgiving morning millions of...
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Weaning Off TV
Several years back, buying group exec Richard Glikes urged his member dealers, installers and integrators to wean themselves off the TV teat. Now understand,...
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Ship Free Or Die
Apologies to our Granite State friends for modifying your motto, but it succinctly captures the state of e-commerce in Q4 2014. What brings this...
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Gas Prices, Part Deux
When last we spoke, I was waxing poetic over a $30 fill-up at the gas pump for my compact. This past weekend it was...
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Fill’er Up
Something amazing happened over the weekend: I was able to fill up my car for $30. Now granted I drive a compact and live...
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How This Black Friday Will Be Different
Love it or hate it, Black Friday has become a seasonal touchstone that retailers, vendors and shoppers have helped make into a competitive (and...
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Best Buy Goes Bar Hopping
The No. 1 electronics emporium is hoisting more than a few this fall, but the glass it is raising isn’t the kind you drink...
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The Writing’s In The Wall
I recently did some remodeling in my house and uncovered some interesting insulation within the walls. It appears a prior owner had used rolled up...
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$299 4K: Killing The Golden Goose (Before It’s Even Hatched)
After covering the CE retail business for over 15 years, you’d think I’d learned by now not to wince at Black Friday price points. But...
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If You Thought Amazon Gave You Agita …
For the uninitiated, Alibaba and DHGate are online, China-based marketplaces that give smaller retailers, and yes, even consumers, access to cut-rate CE and other inventory direct...
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Keith Can’t Get No Satisfaction From iPod
Apple won’t be asking Keith Richards for a product endorsement any time soon. Rock-and-roll’s riff-master general doesn’t own an iPod, and told the Associated...
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