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Which Tech Retailers Will Feel Brexit’s Bite The Most
Amid all the hullaballoo over Britain leaving the European Union (“Brexit”), TWICE wondered which specialty retailers will be impacted by the move the most....
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More On Best Buy’s New In-Home Advisors Pilot
Last week TWICE reported on a Best Buy pilot program designed to drum up business by providing free in-home tech consultations. The retailer is...
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Belkin Opens Retail Store At LAX
Belkin is giving brick-and-mortar another go. The accessory manufacturer opened a new retail space in Terminal 6 at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with...
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Best Buy Testing Free In-Home Tech Consults
In an effort to boost its services business, Best Buy is testing a free in-home advice program to help customers overcome their techno pain...
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A Firsthand Look At Target’s New Smart Shop Pilot
TWICE recently reported on Target’s first formal in-store foray into smart devices — a six-section curated shop that is currently being tested in a...
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A Sneak Peek At Walmart’s Latest Electronics Department Design
To students of Walmart, store No. 5260 in Rogers, Ark., holds a special place. For this isn’t just any run-of-the-mill Walmart box; store No....
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Sears Quietly Launches First Kenmore-Branded TVs
Kenmore has left the kitchen. Sears’ venerable appliance badge is now appearing on a two-line series of aggressively priced HD and 4K Ultra HD...
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Online Sales Growth Vital For CE Retailers
The TWICE Consumer Electronics Top 25 E-tailer’s list, together with our Consumer Electronics Top 100 and the Major Appliance Top 50 rankings, provide the...
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Circuit City Update: ‘Taking Our Time To Get It Right’
Six months ago global sourcing exec Ronny Shmoel announced plans to revive the Circuit City brand, which he acquired last year from Systemax. At...
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Online Shopping Exceeds In-Store According to a UPS report, online orders have finally surpassed in-store purchases. The study, conducted by ComScore and e-commerce consultancy...
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Walmart Drone Fleet Prepares For Liftoff
Walmart could begin deploying drones at its distribution centers within the next six to nine months, the company revealed. The drones will be used...
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Staples Launching Same-Day Delivery Service
Staples has joined the same-day delivery fray. Its new Staples Rush service, which is currently being tested in parts of Boston, Dallas and Manhattan,...
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Conn’s Metrics Worsened In May
The momentum from Conn’s mixed first-quarter results carried into May. According to the company’s monthly performance update — a practice it ended with the...
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Connected Living: Target Testing Its First Smart-Home Shop
Target has installed a smart-home and “Connected Living” section within the CE department of a Minneapolis-area store in what could presage a wider rollout...
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Sears Looking To Cash Out Kenmore As Losses Widen
Sears Holdings will “explore alternatives” for its home services unit and private-label Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard brands amid steepening first-quarter losses and the departure...
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You’ll Be Surprised Which Top Retailer Charges The Least For Electronics
A survey of CE prices last month at four of the top five tech retailers revealed a surprising low-price winner. According to Wolfe Research,...
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World Wide Stereo Turns Up The Volume
World Wide Stereo, the acclaimed Philadelphia-area A/V specialty and custom-installation chain, has opened a second distribution center after outgrowing its original facility. The new...
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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...