Retailing

E-tailers enjoyed a bountiful holiday selling season, analysts reported, thanks to a winning combination of free shipping, improved service, and affiliate and search-engine marketing....

Target has teamed up with Napster, Imation and Case Logic to create a “one-stop” music download shop at each of its discount stores and...

In an effort to encourage digital camera owners to make prints from their digital images, specialty camera retailer Ritz Camera Centers has rolled out...

Retail is about much more than providing a place to show and sell products. From the moment they step into McDonald’s PlayPlace, consumers learn...

Sales could have been better for the Progressive Retailers Organization (PRO Group) during last year and in December, but all in all the organization’s...

Members of the Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA) and their vendor guests celebrated the close of a successful holiday selling season and the...

Convergence, flat-panel displays and greater broadband access is the volatile mix that will fuel industry growth in 2004, top CE dealers said at a...

Ultimate Electronics was named Best Retailer of the Year by the Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) during its first ever Creative Excellence Awards presentation, held...

The Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA) will hold its spring meeting at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point resort in Bonita Springs, Fla., from...

While “holiday selling season” might suffice as a blanket description for the laymen, consumer electronics retailers have been forced to refine the season into...

Competitive pressure from low-margin discounters and accelerating product life cycles will continue to plague CE specialty retailers for the balance of the decade, forcing...

Virgin Entertainment Group, North America, has unveiled a new prototype Megastore designed to boost traffic and revive sales amid the flagging market for music...

When it comes to buying CE, brand may be taking a back seat to price, word-of-mouth, Internet searches and promotions, a new consumer survey...

Partsearch Technologies, a CE and majap replacement parts service for dealers and their customers, has added BestBuy.com and CompUSA to its growing roster of...

With a combination of pride and humility I wish to publicly thank the members of the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame selection committee for...

How much of what you think you are saying to your customers are they actually hearing? After all these years in the consumer electronics...

As the highly promotional holiday selling season has proven, consumers love a bargain. But as CE customers find it harder to differentiate between retailers...

Managing a specialty store is like teaching a moving target. Everyone has two agendas: your’s and their’s. However, you can divide the task into...

Why are consumer electronics accessories important for the typical retailer? Well, in many cases, despite being less than 15 percent of a retailer’s total...

I’ve been reading, with no pleasure, about the demise of the TV manufacturing industry as I’ve known it. Among recent headlines: Thomson’s pending TV...

The MEGA/Best Brands Plus buying group celebrated its 20th anniversary with a Caribbean cruise last month on the luxury liner Norwegian Sky. Several hundred...

Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA) elected several new members to its board. The positions are effective Jan. 1, 2004. Elected president of the...

As every experienced merchant knows, buying merchandise from suppliers for resale to the public is not as simple as it seems. Too often the...

As retail competition grows fiercer — for real estate as well as customers — CE merchants have been forced to don their creative caps...

Years after abandoning the CE business, Macy’s East is back. Well, sort of. The division of Federated Department Stores has re-committed to the category...

Leon Temiz, co-founder and former CEO of metro New York regional chain 6th Avenue Electronics, launched his latest retail venture this month with the...

Best Buy elected to open its second Manhattan store last summer on New York’s Upper East Side, where the space constraints are even more...

CompUSA’s 17-unit test of an in-store A/V shop concept that began last spring came to fruition last week when the final wave of Home...

With the opening of Gateway’s sixth and final pilot store here this month, the only carryover from the old Country Store motif is the...

While many consumer electronics specialty retailers are still finding their footing in this recovering economy, the top full-line mass merchants — namely Wal-Mart, Sears...

Best Buy customers can now activate digital cable and high-definition TV services before leaving the store, with the help of new kiosks available at...

With the holiday selling season rapidly approaching, TWICE wanted to find out what types of CE products might be on Santa’s list, but unavailable...

“Traditional car stereo sales are down approximately 13 percent in units and 18 percent in dollars through May, according to The NPD Group.” —...

In this second and final installment of TWICE’s virtual warranty roundtable, extended service providers address the impact of commodity pricing and non-commissioned sales staffs...

Hopes for a significant industry factory sales bounce back this year, and a push to the historic $100 billion level next year, as expressed...

Radio frequency identification, commonly referred to as RFID, is a groundbreaking technology about to revolutionize the way items are tracked from manufacturer to retailers’...

Assurant and GE are entering a strategic alliance. Under terms of the deal, Assurant will assume the underwriting, obligor and administrative duties formerly performed...

RadioShack held its first-ever Worldwide Innovation Conference (I-CON) here last week, designed to convince CE manufacturers to reconsider the chain when introducing innovative new...

For retailers, extended service contracts are an all-weather friend. When times are tough, as they had been during the first half of the year,...

GERS highlighted new technologies it is developing to enable retailers to respond more quickly and efficiently to changing business conditions during its annual Retail...

Like the resilient New Yorkers many of them are, members of the NECO Alliance — the Northeast buying group, which held its annual convention...