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Google, Walmart Partner On Shop-By-Voice
Your wish is their command. Beginning in late September, Walmart customers will be able to purchase hundreds of thousands of items from the discount...
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Sears Licenses Kenmore Floor Care Overseas
Sears Holdings has culled some additional cash from its private-label Kenmore brand. The retailer, which recently began selling Kenmore appliances to Amazon, has given...
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Target Takes Aim At Same-Day Delivery, Again
In 2014 Target announced tests of a same-day delivery service in Boston, Miami and Minneapolis. “Undoubtedly, there will be kinks,” the discounter said, and...
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Tech & Appliance Retail Sales Slip 1% In July
CE and appliance retailers essentially held their ground last month as sales for the channel slipped less than 1 percent to $8.1 billion year...
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Amazon Debuts Instant Pickup For 2-Minute Order Fulfillment
Amazon upped the ante on shipment gratification with the debut of Instant Pickup in five U.S. cities. Geared toward college students, Instant Pickup enables...
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Toys‘R’Us To Return To Times Square For The Holidays
Toys“R”Us will return — temporarily — to New York’s Times Square after a two-year absence. The company will open a temporary 35,000-square-foot retail store...
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B&O Play Comes To Best Buy
Luxury audio manufacturer Bang & Olufsen will now sell its products through Best Buy. Beginning this week, the H4 and H9 headphones from...
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Independents Thrive As Box Stores Dive: Report
A retail apocalypse may be upon us, but it appears to be limited to big-box chain stores. According to an analysis by small-business advisor...
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Otter Readies Its 1st Brick-And-Mortar Retail Store
Joining the trend of experimental brick-and-mortar, Otter Products will open its first retail store in its Fort Collins, Colo., hometown. The accessory manufacturer, best...
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This Tech Dealer Has The Most Productive Sales Floor In All Of Retail
Best Buy and Walmart may be the two largest brick-and-mortar tech dealers around, but when it comes to sales floor productivity no one holds...
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Border Adjustment Tax (BAT) Is Dead For Now
The controversial border adjustment tax (BAT) is being put aside for the time being, according to a joint statement from the “Big Six.” House...
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Best Buy Adding Dyson In-Store Experiences
Best Buy announced its latest in-store experience partnership: Dyson. The retailer will install about 90 Dyson Demo Experiences in U.S. stores beginning next month,...
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Walmart Rolling Out More Giant Order-Fulfillment Vending Machines
Walmart is expanding its massive Pickup Tower vending machines to an additional 80 locations, up from the 20 towers already installed. The towers, which...
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Paying Via Facial Recognition? Consumers Say ‘Bring It On’: Viewpost
Consumers are ready and willing to embrace high-tech payment services, according to a recent study from Viewpost. The company, a supplier of transaction networks...
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Sears To Sell Kenmore Major Appliances On Amazon
Sears will begin selling its Kenmore line of major appliances on Amazon, marking the first time Kenmore major appliances are sold by another retailer....
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When Worlds Collide: The Convergence Of Brick And Click
There seems to be a myth among retailers that brick brands and click brands can’t thrive in the same space. While the traditional shopping...
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Prime Day Breaks Amazon Sales Records
Amazon said yesterday’s Prime Day sales promotion raked in more revenue than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. The 30-hour haul was up by...
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Better Fatten Up The Reindeer: Retailers See A Busy Q4 Ahead
For born-and-raised New Yawkers old enough to remember Crazy Eddie, the long-gone retailer’s “Christmas In August” ads are indelible. The spots featured radio DJ...
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Schaefer’s Wins Nebraska Retail Federation Honors
Schaefer’s, the independent TV and appliance dealership in Lincoln, Neb., was named a Nebraska Retail Champion by the Nebraska Retail Federation. The honor lauds...
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Monoprice Opens Its 1st Retail Store
Monoprice has opened its first brick-and-mortar store. The manufacturer and online seller of CE accessories and small appliances planned a ribbon-cutting on Wednesday morning...
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A Primer For Amazon Prime Day 2017
Amazon will kick off its third annual Prime Day at 9 p.m. ET on Monday, July 10. The sales event, which features “hundreds of...
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Best Buy Adding Amazon Alexa, Google Home Sections
Best Buy knows a good thing when it sees it. Rewarded for its smart-home forays with strong comp-sale gains, the retailer has accelerated its...
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Sold! Staples Going Private In $7B Buyout
Following months of speculation that the No. 1 office supply chain was being shopped around, Staples has agreed to be acquired by private equity...
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LG’s 77-inch ‘Wallpaper’ OLED To Hang At Video & Audio Center Today
LG’s widely lauded 77-inch W-series Signature OLED TV, which was a CES standout in January, will finally wend its way to retail today. The...
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Sears Layoffs Included Online President Stephan Zoll, Shop Your Way SVP Eric Jaffe
Updated! Two top Sears Holdings executives whose functions are key to the retailer’s core multichannel shopping strategy were included in a corporate downsizing earlier...
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Sears Opens Appliance/Mattress Specialty Store
Sears has opened a new-format specialty store devoted to appliances and mattresses. The freestanding showroom, located in Pharr, Texas, builds on the success of...
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Danby To Dealers: hhgregg’s Pain Is Independents’ Gain
Don’t get Jim Estill wrong. The CEO of compact appliance resource Danby finds no joy in hhgregg’s dissolution. But that’s not to say you...
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How Walmart Is Thinking Outside The (Big) Box
In its quest to catch up with Amazon and leverage its big-box real estate, Walmart is testing a host of retail innovations that embrace...
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TWICE Top 25 CE E-tailers Report: Online Sales Soar For Top Dealers
Fueled by e-commerce investments that could rival some Third World GDPs, the country’s largest pure-play and multichannel tech dealers enjoyed another double-digit online sales...
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May Sales Slip For Tech & Appliance Retailers
The nation’s CE and appliance dealers registered a cumulative 1.8 percent decline in May sales year over year, to $8.1 billion, the U.S. Census...
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Sears Cutting 400 HQ Jobs
Sears said it will eliminate about 400 corporate positions as part of a $1.25 billion cost-cutting program. The headcount reduction mostly affects full-time employees...
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Sprint, Dixons End Joint Retail Deal
Sprint and Dixons Carphone, the European mobile and CE chain, have agreed to end their 50-50 retail partnership in the U.S. Under the two-year-old...
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Survey Says Sales Associates Under-Equipped To Sell
A new poll of retail sales associates suggests that their customer engagement and job satisfaction would improve if given the proper digital tools and...
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Ex-Sears Canada CEO Mark Cohen Speaks Out On Eddie Lampert & Retail
Former Sears marketing chief and Sears Canada CEO Mark Cohen recently sat down with TheStreet for a wide-ranging discussion that touched on his former...
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These Are The Best Big-Box Mobile Sites
With m-commerce expected to grow twice as fast as e-commerce this year, it behooves brick-and-mortar retailers to get their mobile houses in order. To...
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Conn’s Turning A Corner Amid Dour First Quarter
Multiregional furniture, appliance and electronics chain Conn’s posted a net loss and a double-digit sales decline for its fiscal first quarter. The latter reflected...
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Who Loves Ya, Baby? Retail Workers Rate Their CEOs
Likeability isn’t necessarily a requirement for success as a CEO (see George Pullman), but it certainly can’t hurt to have your employees behind you....
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GE Joins Costco’s Appliance Alliance
Costco has added the GE and GE Profile brands to its growing assortment of major appliances. The lines will join a roster of Top...
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hhgregg Is No More
hhgregg is finally out of its misery, although the pain is just beginning for thousands of former employees. The once multiregional CE, appliance, bedding...
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RadioShack Has Essentially Shut All Its Stores
Updated! General Wireless Operations (GWO), which runs the RadioShack chain and website, has pulled the plug on most of its remaining stores. The company said...
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Best Buy Revamping Mobile Departments
Best Buy is updating its mobile departments and web pages to keep in step with recent changes in the wireless business, such as installment...
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Queen City Opening Sixth Store In June
Queen City Audio Video & Appliances, the independent Charlotte, N.C.-based chain, is back in expansion mode. Five years after reorganizing under Chapter 11, the...