Retail
Bezos: Amazon To ‘Double Down’ On Alexa After Record Q4
The company pointed to historic holiday volume and widespread Alexa adoption.
Retail
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Sears Trimming HQ Staff
Sears Holdings is eliminating about 220 corporate posts, with the majority coming out of its Hoffman Estates, Ill., headquarters.
Retail
Inside Video & Audio Center’s New Bleeding-Edge Super Store
An answer to the question 'Is brick-and-mortar still valuable?'
Retail
RC Willey Opens 2nd Sacramento Store
The new 170,000-square-foot mega showroom is the retailer’s 12th full-service location.
Retail
Amazon Super Bowl Ad Asks: What If Alexa Lost Its Voice?
None other than founder/CEO Jeff Bezos makes a cameo appearance in this year's Super Bowl spot.
Retail
Walmart Entering e-Book Biz Through Rakuten Alliance
Walmart is looking to blunt Amazon’s Kindle e-reader business through a new alliance with Internet conglomerate Rakuten.
Retail
As Online Retail Condenses, Big-Box Hangs In There
Digital retail models are shifting CE retailing in favor of online-only retailers as well as vendor-direct models.
Retail
Colorado’s Appliance Factory Hearkens hhgregg For Ohio Launch
The Colorado retailer marked its first venture outside the state, choosing a former Dublin, Ohio, hhgregg store as its new beachhead.
Retail
Amazon Announces HQ Finalists
Amazon has whittled down the list of 238 contending townships to just 20 finalists.
Retail
This Is What Shopping Could Be Like Real Soon
Four retail tech trends stood out at this week's NRF "Big Show" in New York.
CES
Q&A: Alibaba’s Zhang Kuo Sheds Light On U.S. B-To-B Strategy
Also talks global commerce in a connected world
CES
Circuit City To Relaunch Feb. 15
Circuit City CEO Ronny Shmoel has set Feb. 15 as the launch date for his iconic retail brand.
Retail
Sears Closing 103 More Stores
The New Year is bringing another wave of store closures at Sears Holdings.
Retail
Which Retailers Won Christmas?
Now that Santa and his reindeer are safely back at their North Pole digs, it’s time to do a little holiday assessing.
Retail
Retail Fights Back: 5 Trends To Watch
Retail is reinventing itself to meet the needs of a new generation
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Walmart Closing The Same-Day Delivery Gap
With most brick-and-mortar retailers now fully enmeshed in e-commerce, the next great differentiator, after price, is delivery time. And Walmart, which has been on...
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NRF Holiday Forecast: Bright, With Strong Sales
A steadily improving economy and relative strength within the retail sector should contribute to a solid holiday selling season, the National Retail Federation (NRF)...
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Holiday 2017: Black Friday TV Prices, Thanksgiving Store Closures & More
It’s only the second day of October, but our friends at BestBlackFriday.com are already spilling the beans on retailers’ best-laid holiday plans. Their latest...
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RadioShack Alive, If Not Quite Kicking
RadioShack, which entered bankruptcy protection last March for the second time in as many years, is proceeding with plans to emerge from Chapter 11...
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U.S. Retailers Upbeat About Biz But Behind In Digital: KPMG Panel
Chief execs at retail and consumer goods companies are overwhelmingly upbeat about business, though most concede they’re behind the eight ball in digital capabilities,...
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Samsung Supports Installers With ‘5-Star Solutions’ Program
Samsung Electronics America has introduced a new basket of services to assist custom installers. The new 5-Star Solutions program includes expanded control partnerships, IP...
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Retailers Weather Hurricane Season With Replacement Sales
It may be small comfort to the tens of thousands of displaced families, but if there’s a silver lining to this year’s exceptionally harrowing...
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Best Buy Spicing Up Its Services Menu
Best Buy has seen the future of CE retail and it is tech services. At the company’s first investor conference since launching its Renew...
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Holiday Sales To Moderate As Digital Momentum Grows
The long runway to Christmas is underway, and prognosticators are wasting no time rolling out their fourth-quarter sales projections. One of the first out...
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Deloitte Forecasts A Merry Christmas For Retailers
Consumers’ income gains — and their propensity to spend it — should make for a jolly holiday season for merchants. According to Deloitte, the...
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Queen City To Open Second New Store This Year
While national chains are closing stores, Queen City Audio Video & Appliances is busy opening them. The Charlotte, N.C.-based independent, now in its 65th...
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Amazon Tapping Kohl’s For Order Returns
Amazon will further wend its way into physical retail next month when 82 Kohl’s stores in Chicago and Los Angeles begin accepting product returns...
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Toys‘R’Us Joins Chapter 11 Club
Continuing an escalating if unnerving trend this year, Toys“R”Us, No. 21 on TWICE’s Top 100 CE Retailers Report, has joined the growing list of...
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Walmart To Open New HQ In Bentonville
Walmart will open new headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., in order to better streamline its operations. According to Walmart Stores president/CEO Doug McMillon, the retailer...
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Black Friday Predictions: 4K TVs As Low As HD, Says DealNews
It’s not Black Friday (or Thanksgiving) without those TV doorbusters. DealNews, a consumer site that wades through retailer promotions all year long, expects upcoming...
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Luxury Appliance Chain Pirch Shutting Half Its Showrooms
Pirch, the ultra-premium kitchen, bath and appliance chain, is retrenching after nearly a decade of aggressive growth. The business, widely lauded for its 10...
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Amazon Planning Second HQ, First NY Depot
Amazon is looking to build a second headquarters site in North America, and is accepting proposals from potential state and local government hosts. Founder/CEO...
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Conn’s Reopens 23 Stores Closed By Hurricane Harvey
Texas-based Conn’s is getting back to business in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which ravaged the state’s coastal communities last month. The CE, appliance...
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Kohl’s Testing Amazon-Staffed Smart-Home Sections
Kohl’s, the discount junior department store chain, will begin testing interactive smart-home display areas next month featuring Amazon devices, accessories, services and personnel. The...
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Same-Day Delivery Is A Go For Best Buy
Best Buy is growing its same-day delivery program. Not only is the retailer adding cities where consumers can order products from BestBuy.com and...
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IHL Group Debunks The Retail Apocalypse
U.S. retailers are opening 4,080 more stores in 2017 than they are closing, and plan to open over 5,500 more in 2018, according to...
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Best Buy Earnings Exceed Expectations
Best Buy’s second-quarter earnings and sales topped analysts’ expectations as revenue approached $9 billion, up almost 5 percent, and same-store sales grew 5.4 percent....
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Independent RadioShack Dealers Unleashed By Latest Bankruptcy
RadioShack’s second bankruptcy in two years may have brought its company-owned stores to the edge of oblivion, but it has apparently sparked a renaissance...
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Sears Closing More Kmart Stores
Sears Holdings has added another 28 Kmart stores to its list of locations targeted for shuttering this year. The announcement came with the release...