Retailing

Those who think digital color TV receivers are a brand new high-tech phenomenon have another thing coming. The first all-digital signal processing sets were...

During the fourth quarter GERS Retail Systems will move into a new 80,000-square-foot headquarters at 10431 Wateridge Circle in San Diego, which will include...

LAS VEGAS — MARTA members didn’t allow the uncertainties of the current majap marketplace to impact their mood during the buying co-op’s 35th anniversary...

Over its 27 years of operation, Tweeter etc. has honed a business model that has made it the dominant high-end A/V specialty store in...

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Trade Commission is taking a dim view of the way some retailers have touted their supposedly free or low-cost...

The heads of the nation’s three largest consumer electronics chains took on such hot-button issues as direct-to-consumer sales by manufacturers and the future of...

The industry’s TV retailing pioneers haven’t all retired from the scene. There’s at least one still going strong: Ken Crane, the founder of the...

Electronics Boutique and Best Buy have each introduced in time for the holiday season point-of-sale innovations designed to streamline in-store transactions and enhance their...

Memphis-based Best Brands Plus (BBP) used the occasion of its August 27 show to officially debut its first online selling site. The e-tail effort,...

Industry analysts and even retail competitors are tipping their hats to Circuit City for its bold test of dedicated stores for electronics and appliances....

It’s both the best of times and the worst of times for the nation’s top electronics and appliance buying groups. First the good news:...

The combination of a new generation of innovative digital products and a still feisty, if long-in-the-tooth bull market, is proving to be an irresistible...

While No. 1 retail chain Best Buy plans to increase its store count by more than 60 this year — including the first New...

Consumer electronics retailers appear to be backing away from costly 12-month credit promotions in favor of more targeted six-month consumer offers. “We have noticed...

Dot-com retailers 800, Buy, Cozone, Crutchfield, Egghead, Nextag and Outpost were sited as the best places to buy consumer electronics online in separate studies...

CoolAudio.com plans to spend $8 million to $10 million on marketing and promotion during the next year to create a nationwide consumer following for...

If last Christmas established the Internet as a viable retail channel, then this holiday season should give form to e-tailing’s vast, amorphous playing field....

New York was abuzz with e-commerce clatter late last month when the fifth annual Internet & Electronic Commerce Conference and Exposition (iEC ’99) rolled...

MOUNT PROSPECT, ILL. — Bang & Olufsen America (BOA) has entered an expanded joint venture with B&O storeowner Mark2 Inc. to operate a total...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Maytag has contracted Service Net Inc. to manage its extended warranty and service contract programs, including a Maytag-branded service plan that...

Aside from the surge in business brought on by the digital revolution, third-party service administrators also foresee a wellspring of new opportunities over the...

If customers of GERS Retail Systems wanted to get a definitive update on e-commerce, all they had to do was attend the company’s user...

Question: What do Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target sell? Answer: Anything they want. With nearly 8,000 large-format stores between them, and some $9 billion in...

New York — One year ago the future seemed bright for Brandwise.com. Riding the wave of e-commerce mania, the cyber start-up came into being...

Scottsdale, Ariz. — MARTA committees discussed a couple of new initiatives intended to oil the wheels of the buying group during its meeting here...

TWICE: Now that you’ve all enjoyed a stellar fourth quarter, what’s next? How do you keep the momentum going? SADOWSKI: I would say that...

Retailers expect to sell more than a billion dollars worth of DVD players next year, paving the way for greater acceptance of digital television...

As e-commerce emerges as a factor in consumer electronics retailing (TWICE, April 12, p. 1), manufacturers are in the embryonic stage of developing strategies...

Best Buy chairman/CEO Richard Schulze said the consumer electronics industry has turned the corner in its devaluation of products, and he has re-engineered his...

“We can’t spend enough to shout above the clutter of Christmas, so we won’t shout about it,” said Henry Chiarelli, executive VP and general...

Many in the warranty business say that providing extended repair contracts just doesn’t cut it anymore. Replacement contracts are superceding the traditional repair contracts...