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Adorama Slates 6th Annual Street Fair
Adorama, the Manhattan-based imaging, IT and A/V e-tailer, sure knows how to throw a party. The “official electronics retailer” of the local WFAN New...
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What’s The Deal With Dollar Stores?
This week TWICE released its 2016 Top 100 CE Retailers Report, in which two “dollar stores,” Dollar Tree (No. 91) and Dollar General (No....
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What Do Amazon And RadioShack Have In Common?
Well, for one thing, they both appear on the Temkin Experience Ratings, a ranking of 294 companies across 20 industries based on a survey...
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BJ’s Offering Free Tech Support
No. 3 warehouse club BJ’s has launched a free tech-support service for members called Tech Advisors. The program, outsourced to third-party service provider Alorica,...
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What hhgregg’s Riesbeck Is Doing To Stop The Bleeding
Following the release of rather dour fourth-quarter results yesterday, hhgregg’s chief financial officer and interim CEO Robert Riesbeck filled in analysts on what he’s...
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Pirch Bringing Tastemakers To Promo New SoHo Flagship
Pirch previewed an elaborate new marketing campaign for its Manhattan flagship showroom debut, slated for tomorrow, May 21. The campaign will feature contributions by...
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Electronics Still ‘A Headwind’ For Walmart
Walmart still can’t seem to find the handle for its CE business. While the world’s largest retailer saw “some improving trends” in electronics at...
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Pirch Picks AVS As Resident Integrator For New SoHo Store
Updated! AVS Audio Video, the Plainview, N.Y.-based custom integrator, will be providing networking solutions and premium A/V products to Pirch’s Big Apple patrons. For...
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GameStop Grows ThinkGeek Retail Stores
GameStop has opened its first ThinkGeek retail location in New York City and said it plans to open an additional 25 U.S. locations this...
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Cowboy Maloney’s Opens 13th Store
What better day than Friday the 13th to announce the opening of a dealer’s 13th showroom? Mississippi’s Cowboy Maloney’s agrees, and the now 13-store furniture,...
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Amazon Prime Wins Prime Demographic
Amazon Prime is primed for continued growth thanks to a key demographic within its membership ranks. According to Wolfe Research retail analyst Scott Mushkin, the...
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Radius8 Offers New Tool To Boost Brick-And-Mortar Traffic
Radius8, a Princeton-N.J.-based retail tech start-up, is launching a new Cloud-based platform that it said will enable storefront retailers to showcase their local inventory...
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Sears Testing Stand-Alone Appliance Store
Sears will formally open a freestanding appliance specialty store on May 19. The pilot showroom, located in Ft. Collins, Colo., is 10,000 square feet...
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NATM’s Warehouse Discount Center Adds Sub-Zero, Wolf
Warehouse Discount Center (WDC), a TWICE Top 50 appliance retailer and recent addition to the NATM Corp. buying group, has added premium brand Sub-Zero...
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Staples-Office Depot Deal Is Dead
The proposed $6.3 billion merger of Staples and Office Depot is kaput. Staples dropped its acquisition plans last night after a U.S. district court...
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JCPenney Rolling Out Appliances To Half Its Stores
Apparently pleased with the results of a 22-store test of major appliances, JCPenney said it will begin rolling out white-goods departments to an additional...
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Amazon Taking On YouTube With New Prime Video Direct
Amazon has put another target in its crosshairs: YouTube. The e-tailer announced a new feature to its Amazon Prime Video arm on Tuesday, known...
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Best Buy First Retailer To Demo Oculus Rift VR Headset
Best Buy will become the first retailer to provide in-store demos of the Oculus Rift VR headset this Saturday. Beginning May 7, the No....
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Best Buy Doubles Down On Maytag
Maytag, long a staple of Best Buy’s 177-some-odd Pacific Kitchen & Home premium appliance departments, has joined the majap rank-and-file within 600 of its...
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Sears Stepping Up Its Smart-Home Efforts
While closing 68 Kmart, 10 Sears stores Sears Holdings has introduced the first wave of what will be a wider assortment of connected-home products...
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T-Mobile Opening Retail Stores At A Furious Clip
T-Mobile, the country’s fastest-growing mobile carrier, will open about 1,400 more retail stores this year to keep pace with its expanding network footprint. On...
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Amazon’s Alexa Will Bring Mom Flowers On Mother’s Day
Amazon doesn’t want to hear any excuses about Mother’s Day this year. 1-800-Flowers.com said Amazon Echo, Dot, Tap and Fire TV owners can now...
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Amazon Winning At Mobile Retail Too
As the online shopping race shifts to m-commerce, it would appear that Amazon is killing it in that space as well. According to a...
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RadioShack Fills CEO Role With Australia’s Dene Rogers
RadioShack has found a new chief executive in Dene Rogers, a former managing director of Target Australia and one-time president/CEO of Sears Canada, following...
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World Wide Stereo Prepares Showroom Reveal
World Wide Stereo, the acclaimed Philadelphia-area A/V specialty and custom-installation chain, is set to unveil its completely redesigned Montgomeryville, Pa., showroom this week. The...
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Taking A Stand On Transgender Facilities
I was recently helped by a transgender Genius in a New Jersey Apple Store. It never occurred to me to ask which restroom she...
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Retail Pay: What’s In Your Wallet?
Against the backdrop of the national debate over executive salaries and a $15/hour minimum wage, USA Today compiled a list of the 76 top-earning...
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Amazon Nudges Netflix With Video-Only Prime Subscription
Amazon is now offering a Netflix-like option by opening access to its vast Prime Video library for $8.99 a month. The stand-alone service excludes...
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GameStop Launches GameTrust Publishing Unit
GameStop, which has been busy branching out from its core videogame retailing business, has done so again with the creation of GameTrust, a stand-alone...
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Insight: Tech Retail Is Another Year Older But Not Necessarily Wiser
Last year on TWICE.com I wrote an “insider’s perspective” about RadioShack, outlining the challenges it faced, which ultimately led to a bankruptcy filing and...
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Exclusive: Target Testing Connected Health Sections
TWICE Exclusive! Target has begun merchandising connected healthcare devices within dedicated sections of select pharmacy departments. The pilot program is rolling out across the country to...
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Geek Chic: Best Buy Squashing The Bug
Best Buy is retiring its fleet of iconic black and white Volkswagen New Beetles, in which Geek Squad techs have tooled around town for...
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Aaron’s Breaks Guinness World Record With Mattress Dominoes
Furniture, appliance and electronics chain Aaron’s has broken a Guinness World Record. The lease-to-own retailer officially broke the record for the Largest Human Mattress...
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Sears Uses The ‘F’ Word, As In ‘Black Friday’
Many of us — whether we’re sales associates, merchants, store managers, shoppers, or retail reporters — have only just now fully recovered from Black...
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Best Buy Getting In On The Same-Day Delivery Action
Amazon isn’t the only retailer delivering online orders the same day they’re placed. Best Buy, with the help of a Menlo Park, Calif.-based delivery...
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Target Goes Wide With Smaller-Format Stores
Target has a bull’s-eye on your neighborhood. In an effort to increase market penetration (and comply with local zoning regs), the No. 2 discount...
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Newegg Leveraging Facebook Messenger For Customer Support
Tech specialty e-tailer Newegg has added another tool to its customer-service arsenal: private messaging through Facebook. The company said it is among the first...
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Amazon Expands Same-Day Prime Deliveries
Amazon has extended its Prime same-day delivery service to 11 new markets. The expansion raises the number of metro areas to 27 — encompassing more...
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Bezos Still Smarting From New York Times’ Amazon Article
Apparently last summer’s Amazon exposé in the New York Times is still sticking in CEO/founder Jeff Bezos’ craw. In it, Bezos was taken to...
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Take A Look At Apple’s Newest Store Design
Apple’s first major store redesign under retail senior VP Angela Ahrendts is getting a U.S. field trial in Germantown, Tenn. Reportedly developed in concert...
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Successful Retail Ain’t Pretty: Kantar
Some of the most successful chains in retail also have the ugliest stores. Kantar Retail, a market research firm and consultancy, cited Costco, Dollar...
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Cricket Wireless Jumps Into Best Buy, Aaron’s Stores
Prepaid cellular-service provider Cricket Wireless continues to expand its retail distribution with the announcement that 1,300 Best Buy locations and almost 2,000 Aaron’s lease-to-own...