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Lowe’s Black Friday Ad Is Leaked
Lowe’s leaked Black Friday ad has been posted to BlackFriday.com, and the chain will feature major appliance deals galore this year. Deals revealed...
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D&H Offering Black Friday/Cyber Monday Rebates Before Thanksgiving
National IT and CE distributor D&H Distributing is providing competitive Black Friday/Cyber Monday rebates on over 200 tech-forward products in advance of the Thanksgiving...
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P.C. Richard Guarantees Black Friday Pricing Now
New York metro area chain P.C. Richard & Son is encouraging customers to begin their holiday shopping now by guaranteeing a slew of Black...
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Black Friday Losing Its Cachet As Pre-Holiday Sales Spread
The ritual and anticipation of Black Friday — the gathering of ad-laden newspapers on Thanksgiving morning to scour the circulars for the next day’s...
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Barnes & Noble Holds First Mini Maker Faire
Barnes & Noble, along with 18 tech and toy vendors, held an inaugural Mini Maker Faire event earlier this month to help promote home-grown...
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Holiday Sales To Slow As TV Loses Ground To Audio, IT & Emerging Tech
Despite the overwhelming popularity of tech this holiday season, a spending shift from big-ticket TVs to less expensive audio, mobile and emerging tech devices...
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Motorola Opens First, But Not Necessarily Last, Retail Store
Smartphone-maker Motorola has opened up its first retail store, joining such tech companies as Apple and Microsoft in operating brick-and-mortar sales outlets. Motorola is...
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Amazon Opens Its First Physical Bookstore
Amazon opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstore last month. The storefront is located at 4601 26th Ave. NE in Seattle’s University Village, just a few...
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Let’s Talk Turkey: To Open Or Not To Open
That is the question. Despite a boisterous backlash from some consumers, and a growing list of retailers that are taking the day off, a...
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Six Ways To Improve The Checkout Experience
Retailers are losing $18 billion annually due to shopping cart abandonment. Research shows over two out of three users who add items to their...
Distributors
Climatic Bringing Broan To Texas And Oklahoma
National appliance distributor Climatic Home Products will take Broan’s residential ventilation products into two new territories beginning next week. Effective Nov. 16, Climatic will...
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Better Late Than Never: H-E-B Launches 1st E-Commerce Site
H-E-B, the South Texas grocery and general merchandise chain, has come of age by launching its first transactional website. The e-ecommerce operation, located at...
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Conn’s Reaches Major Milestone
Conn’s, the Houston-based furniture and specialty home goods retailer, opened its 100th store yesterday. The milestone was reached in Las Vegas, where the multiregional chain...
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Kmart Remains The King Of Thanksgiving Store Hours
Updated! Despite the hubbub around Thanksgiving Day store openings, Kmart, for more than two decades now, has traditionally skipped the turkey and went straight for...
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hhgregg Touting TVs And Appliances For Black Friday
Multiregional retailer hhgregg is using equal parts TV and major appliances for its Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales events. Turkey Day promotions will run...
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Sears Goes Heavy On Major Appliances In Its Black Friday Ad
Cross it off the list: Sears has released its Thanksgiving and Black Friday ad. The chain, which had already shared the news it would...
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TVs Top Walmart’s Black Friday Sale
Updated! The other shoe — and most impactful Black Friday ad — has dropped. Three days after Best Buy revealed its Thanksgiving weekend plans, No....
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Amazon Tips Hand On Three Black Friday Tech Deals
Amazon disclosed a trio of Black Friday week discounts involving its proprietary Kindle and Fire devices. Beginning Sunday, Nov. 22, its Kindle e-reader will...
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Shopko Shares Black Friday Plans
Updated! Multiregional discount chain Shopko has pre-released its Thanksgiving/Black Friday sales circular, and the 57-page, TV-centric book is chock-a-block full of CE deals. The...
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hhgregg Kicking Off Black Friday On Thanksgiving
Multiregional CE, appliance and home-furnishing chain hhgregg will once again open its doors on Thanksgiving, preempting Best Buy by an hour with sales starting...
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Best Buy Preempts Black Friday Sites By Leaking Its Own Ad
Updated! The ritual and anticipation of Black Friday — the gathering of ad-laden newspapers on Thanksgiving morning to scour the circulars for the next...
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Target Releases Black Friday Ad; Will Open Thanksgiving
Cross Target off the list of much-anticipated Black Friday ads — and add it to the list of stores opening on Thanksgiving. The retailer,...
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Kohl’s Touts Samsung, LG TVs In Black Friday Ad
Kohl’s, the discount department store known more for apparel and home fashions than CE, has given tech a prominent place in its Black Friday...
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Sam’s Club Black Friday Sale Will Have A 58-Inch Vizio 4K TV For $698
Sam’s Club will kick off its Black Friday sales event online at 12:01 a.m. Thanksgiving morning (Nov. 26). Its stores, which will remain closed...
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Sears Touts Kenmore, Samsung Appliances In Black Friday Ad
Kitchen suites from Sears’ private-label Kenmore brand, and a smattering of Samsung kitchen products and laundry pairs, will represent the category in a forthcoming...
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Console Bundles Top GameStop’s Black Friday Ad
Bleary-eyed Black Friday shoppers will have a choice of 500GB Xbox One or PlayStation 4 bundles for $300 when GameStop opens its doors at 5...
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XYZ Printing Joins Barnes & Noble’s Maker Faire
Leading 3D-printer vendor XYZprinting is joining 17 other brands this weekend to co-host Barnes & Noble’s debut Mini Maker Faire event. The educational expo features...
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Black Friday Watch: Walmart.com Launching Deals Of The Day
Walmart has a target on Amazon. In another element of its billion-dollar-a-year catch-up effort, the world’s largest retailer is mounting its own version of...
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Staples Touts $300 Notebooks, $55 Fire Tablet Bundle For Black Friday
Staples will formally break its Black Friday ad on Sunday (Nov. 8), but has leaked a trio of teaser items in the meantime to...
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Meijer Spills The Beans On Its Black Friday Ad
Once upon a time, retailers’ Black Friday plans were a closely guarded secret. That’s all changed since “leaked” circulars by holiday shopping sites removed...
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Motorola’s 1st Retail Store Might Not Be Its Last
Smartphone-maker Motorola is opening up its first retail store, joining such tech companies as Apple and Microsoft in operating brick-and-mortar sales outlets. Motorola is...
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Black Friday Watch: These Stores Will Be Closed On Thanksgiving
Updated! We’ve written at length about the backlash against Thanksgiving Day store openings. Well, at least 26 retailers to date are putting their holiday...
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Black Friday Watch: Sam’s Club Sets Nov. 14 For 1st Pre-Holiday Event
Sam’s Club will kick off the holiday selling cycle on Saturday, Nov. 14, by mounting a “Lowest Prices of the Season” in-store and online...
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Home Depot Breaks Black Friday Majap Ad
The Home Depot has jump-started the holidays by releasing its first Black Friday sales ad with pricing that begins tomorrow and is good through...
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Office Depot Kicks Off Pre-Black Friday Sales This Sunday
Office Depot and its OfficeMax subset will enter the pre-holiday promotional fray this Sunday with the first of two “early Black Friday” sales. The...
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Amazon Opens Its 1st Book Store
Amazon has opened its first physical book store. The store is located at 4601 26th Ave. NE in Seattle’s University Village, just a few...
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Black Friday Watch: Sears To Open Thanksgiving Evening
In what may be a compromise between opposing Thanksgiving Day camps (to open or not to open?), Sears said it will once again delay...
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Amazon Prime Members Claim New Perk For Pre- And Post-Black Friday
Amazon pulled its Black Friday curtain back just a bit on Monday, revealing a new perk for Prime members. Prime members will now be...
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Paul’s TV Online Liquidation Set For Thursday
An online-only auction will be held this Thursday (Nov. 5) for the remaining inventory and office assets of Paul’s TV. The Los Angeles-area A/V...
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Holiday Forecast: Black Friday Gives Thanksgiving The Bird
A growing backlash against Thanksgiving Day sales is expected to help Black Friday kick holiday butt this season. According to retail traffic counter ShopperTrak,...
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Distributor Briefs
Almo Expands Small Business Saturday Event National CE and appliance distributor Almo Corp. is promising a bigger and better Small Business Saturday for its...
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TWICE On The Scene: A Look Inside Microsoft’s New Flagship Store
Microsoft pulled out all the stops for last week’s grand opening of its six-year-old retail chain’s first-ever flagship store. The 22,369-square-foot showplace occupies five...