Retailing

As a veteran showgoer, I can safely say that the 2001 International CES was one for the books on a number of fronts. First-and...

The surge in sales of new digital products is boosting sales of service contracts and extended warranties, according to a handful of third-party service...

JEFFERSONVILLE, IND. -Adding another Internet-based third-party service administrator to the mix, Service Net Inc. launched its website-eservicentral.com-last month. The site, which is available to...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -Appliance distributor Marty Friedman, president of Eastern Marketing Corp., takes the podium at P.C. Richard & Son’s new state-of-the-art training amphitheater at...

KANSAS CITY, KAN.-Nebraska Furniture Mart, the acclaimed mega-merchant founded by the late, great Rose Blumkin in 1937 and acquired by Berkshire Hathaway head Warren...

NEW YORK -Here2fix, an online third-party provider of product protection plans to retailers, e-tailers and catalog merchants, was chosen by buy.com to provide a...

How does one describe the plight of today’s independent CE retailer without sounding as if we’re shouting that the sky is falling? That’s the...

TWICE:What are the biggest challenges facing you and the industry? LINTON: Best Buy has a mission and a vision and that’s that we make...

MIRAMAR, FLA. – E-tailer Roxy.com has combined its wireless operation, EverythingWireless.com, with its namesake site, and has dubbed the newly designed and just-launched sales...

LAS VEGAS – Retailers headed for CES earlier this month were toting itineraries as diverse as the distribution channels they represent. For some dealers,...

Was it only one year ago that the biggest single concern of conventional consumer electronics retailers attending the International CES was how to survive...

LAS VEGAS – Retailers at TWICE’s annual CES Retail Roundtable stressed the importance of remaining alert and working hard to maintain the growth they...

PT. PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. – World-Exchange.com has launched a consumer electronics shopping website that offers deep discounts on a broad selection of branded audio...

DULLES, VA. – National Electronics Warranty Corp. (NEW), a provider of extended service contracts and buyer protection programs for consumer electronics products, has Web-enabled...

NEW YORK – e-SIM, which produces online product simulations for e-commerce and customer support, has developed a new version of its LiveManuals program that...

SAN FRANCISCO – etown, the five-year-old provider of online content and e-commerce infrastructure services for consumer electronics retailers and manufacturers, has added JCPenney and...

Is there anyone out there old enough to remember TV dealer Mort Farr of Upper Darby, Pa.? Back when color was the newest benefit...

Would Tom Hanks have cast away his volleyball in trade for a consumer electronics product? Would he have traded it for Pamela Anderson? One...

The following memo was written by Wireless Zone and Boomer McCloud founder Russ Weldon for his retailer partners, but his nine simple rules of...

LAS VEGAS -When GE Capital finally pulled the plug on the once venerable Montgomery Ward last month, was it simply an isolated incident or...

NEW YORK -Etown.com, the Web-based consumer infomediary, e-commerce platform and b-to-b cyber service, has bestowed its consumer electronics Product Of The Year awards for...

DANIA BEACH, FLA. -Amid the usual frenzy surrounding the holiday sales period, a slew of CE retailers decided to maximize the seasonal momentum by...

The latest pronouncement by Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard on the painfully slow overall spread of digital TV (DTV) to consumers indicates he...

MAJOR APPLIANCES SIDE-BY-SIDE REFRIGERATORS Year-Over-Year % Change -11.80% 1. Whirlpool ED25PEXH 2. Whirlpool ED22PEXH 3. Whirlpool ED25UEXH 4. Whirlpool ED25TEXH 5. General Electric TFX26ZPD...

You may not think that your employees are stealing from your business, but the chances are great they are doing just that. According to...

What a difference a year makes. Prior to April, the consumer electronics business, along with almost every other industry segment, was suffering from a...

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital/DTS receivers accounted for a majority of unit receiver sales at retail for the first time in...

It was a year that began with a bang and may very well end with a whimper. Consumer electronics retailers kicked off 2000 by...

With online sales on the rise and the spotlight on performance, Internet retailers must deliver the goods this holiday season to seize a sizable...

ARLINGTON, VA. -DVD players, big-screen color TVs and desktop computers are the most coveted electronics gifts this season, according to the Consumer Electronics Association’s...

SAN FRANCISCO -Just in time for the fourth-quarter competition, the Big Three national discount chains-Kmart, Target and Wal-Mart-have re-launched their e-commerce sites, after extended...

Once upon a time there was a consumer electronics company uniquely positioned to take not justa leadership position in our industry, butthe leadership position....

DENVER, COLO. -Ultimate Electronics will continue its aggressive geographic expansion next year by opening its first St. Louis stores, the company announced late last...

SIDE-BY-SIDE REFRIGERATORS Year-Over-Year Change: 6.7% 1. WHIRLPOOL ED25PEXH 2. GENERAL ELECTRIC TFX26KPD 3. WHIRLPOOL ED22PEXH 4. FRIGIDAIRE FRS26ZNH 5. WHIRLPOOL ED25QFXH TOP-FREEZER REFRIGERATORS Year-Over-Year...

Whether you’re a retailer or manufacturer, no company can afford to sit on the sidelines as e-business takes off in the global digital economy....

Increasingly, retailers, manufacturers and service providers are utilizing the Internet not only as a sales channel but also as an instructional tool for consumers...

Whitehall, Pa.-Along a bustling retail corridor within this semirural suburb of Allentown, Pa., sits a store that is truly unique in all of retail....

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -Despite the growing number of e-tail casualties and consolidations-including, within the CE space, electronics.net, Everything For Less, Onsale.com and Value America-analysts are...

Something happens to people when they’ve been in the corporate office for awhile. They have a tendency to feel and act smarter. They forget...

Minneapolis-Consumer electronics retail giant Best Buy announced top vendors who it said contributed to its success throughout the past year. The retailing chain presented...

TWICE: Manufacturers have been rather slow in formulating their Internet policies. Will this be the year that authorization opens up? PAYNE: I think the...

SEATTLE — CarToys, a 29-unit mobile audio and wireless communications specialty retailer, has signed VAC Service Corporation to administer its extended service program. The...