Retailing

Eddie Dees (above left) celebrated his 50th anniversary with metro New York retailer Harvey Electronics with a party with fellow employees, reps, family and...

Verizon Wireless has begun installing company-operated in-store shops throughout more than 570 of Circuit City’s 600-plus locations. The multiyear deal, which brings Circuit City...

Few manufactures ever think in terms of not selling a particular retailer. For most, the extent of their channel strategy is essentially “If they’ve...

In the previous issue of TWICE, four dealers were profiled as part of our annual Retailers To Watch series, which highlights CE and major...

More than 800 CE dealers, IT resellers, custom installers and vendors of every stripe converged on this central Pennsylvania town last month, site of...

With the goal of sharing best practices, and to salute dealers who have created a successful niche within an increasingly competitive marketplace, TWICE presents...

Six months after assuming the reins of the North American Retail Dealers Association (NARDA), president/CEO Tom Drake is ready to implement a new educational...

Circuit City is spicing up the way it sells its CityAdvantage extended service plans. As an added incentive to consumers, the company is offering...

Christmas came early this year when RadioShack previewed highlights of its fourth quarter product line for the trade here earlier this month. The sneak...

So the TV dumping case against manufacturers in China has been settled. In the wake of a finding by the International Trade Commission (ITC)...

Cowboy Maloney’s Electric City, the Mississippi brown and white goods chain, helped celebrate DirecTV’s 10th anniversary last month in a most appropriate locale: the...

Office Depot unveiled a new retail format called Millennium2 (M2) that is designed to be less expensive to open, more efficient to operate and...

Consumer spending on consumer electronics is set to rise over the next six months, although most of that disposable income will be spent at...

Here’s a look at where top CE merchants are placing their open-to-buy bets for Holiday 2004, and whether there’ll be enough holiday cheer (read...

Armed with sufficient supplies of flat-panel and microdisplay TVs, and plenty of HD content to drive them, leading CE retailers are confident of glad...

Ever since a pre-emptive online ad campaign helped make the no-budget fright flick “The Blair Witch Project” a box office bonanza, major corporations from...

For the second year in a row, eBay graphically demonstrated the range, quality and affordability of its home product offering by filling a Manhattan...

Newspaper circulars may generate more store traffic than all other advertising mediums, especially within the CE channel, a new study suggests. According to the...

In reviewing the struggle by thousands of retailers to be successful during these days of intense competition from so many giants in the trade,...

What’s that sucking sound? It’s the sound of the continuing contraction of options available to U.S. consumer electronics dealers, distributors, resellers and manufacturers to...

While Target’s flagship discount chain excels at cool CE executions (witness its Napster download music shops, exclusive Sony Liv collection, now in its second...

Sony HDTVs are carried by more retailers — nearly two-thirds of those surveyed — than any other brand, according to preliminary findings of a...

Did I miss the big celebration at CES? Did I fail to stop by the celebratory Pavilion? Or was this something the industry, in...

The Brand Source/AVB buying group is providing complimentary consumer electronics and major appliances to 150 Ronald McDonald Houses and five Ronald McDonald Camp programs...

BrandsMart USA, the five-unit Southern Florida brown- and white-goods emporium, has become the second retailer, after Sears, to carry VOOM, the high-definition TV-centric home...

Neretin Associates, a retail research firm based here, is conducting research for an HDTV brand retail penetration report covering all formats and configurations. The...

Unlike other new store formats for Best Buy, or any other chain for that matter, the tour of the Westminster location in the L.A....

Spencer’s TV & Appliance has rejoined the Nationwide Marketing Group just days after leaving the fold for the NATM Buying Corp. According to a...

Despite its name, which recalls the company’s Manhattan heritage, 6th Ave Electronics City is a New Jersey institution in the tradition of boardwalks and...

Sears is overhauling its CE assortment and will redesign its electronics departments to better accommodate the new mix. The improved merchandise offering will feature...

Private sales are an in-store promotional event communicated by a direct-mail piece. They are by invitation only and typically last for one day. They...

Fueled by low interest rates and strong cash flow, NATM members are opening new stores and/or relocating and renovating older ones in order to...

The industry’s seven major retail buying organizations are facing pressures from big box chains and direct-sell PC suppliers head on with new programs, stronger...

MARTA celebrated its 40th anniversary in style, adding 12 retailers, giving the organization 106 members. The new MARTA members are: Climatic Corp., Columbia, S.C.;...

The NATM Buying Corp. will hold its annual Spring Conference here later this week at the Westin La Cantera Resort. The meeting, which runs...

The North American Retail Dealers Association (NARDA) and its North American Service Dealers arm (NASD) will hold its annual Institute of Retail and Service...

P.C. Richard & Son, the granddaddy of New York area brown- and white-goods dealers and the country’s sixth largest appliance chain, is on a...

It seems that nonsense names like Avanti, Altima, Corolla and Pacifica seem to actually help boost the sales of new automobiles. But when it...

Once upon a time, long ago, the CE industry featured numerous brands that were widely recognized by consumers. And the companies behind those brands...

MARTA Cooperative of America (MARTA) will hold its annual spring meeting at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center, here, this week. Executive director...

LAS VEGAS TWICE sat down with a who’s who of retail executives during International CES in January to discuss a range of hot-button topics...