Retail

Judging by the growing number of business loan applications dealers are filling out these days with banks and other lending institutions, a major problem...

Retail sales are lagging… component manufacturers are worried about the future… the country is in recession. Yes, we have all read the headlines and...

“As they say at NASA when they are preparing the space shuttle, ‘We’re on the launch pad and ready to go,’ ” said Nationwide...

The North American Retail Dealers Association (NARDA) has begun to interview 150 candidates for its NARDA 21st Century Retail Vision training program. Only 20...

New product introductions at last month’s Consumer Electronics Show were not limited to digital doodads. Among exhibitors presenting innovations were extended service contract providers,...

GERS Retail Systems will hold its 20th annual user conference, Retail World 2002, this Aug. 19-22 at the Westin Horton Plaza, in this city’s...

MIKE LINTON: At Best Buy, we are seeing a huge move to the clicks-and-mortar model. Forty percent of our shoppers at some time of...

TWICE:So what’s up with Good Guys? KEN WELLER: We had good and bad news. The good news is we are in California, and the...

TWICE:Let’s talk product. What’s hot and what’s not? TOM EDWARDS: In television, more than half of the projection sets being sold at retail are...

TWICE:What’s your post-mortem on the holiday season? MIKE LINTON (Best Buy): We saw a slip off starting in September, right after the event. But...

Once upon a time, trade shows were all about writing paper. Retailers would shop a show and, if a vendor had the right product...

Best Brands Plus, the 600-member buying group for independent consumer electronics, furniture, mattress and major appliance dealers, has been renamed Mega Group USA. The...

In the early 1960s, when I was working in the Electronics Division of the Japan Trade Center in New York, my boss, an engineer...

D-Tools is offering a retail version of its system design software, the Retail Solution (RS) package that allows retail salespeople to provide customers with...

Based on the results of a six-month test of RadioShack shops in 130 of its stores, Blockbuster is upping the CE quotient in all...

Decades before the World Trade Center was built and tragically destroyed, there existed a little corner of lower Manhattan known to the then fledgling...

We could call this report on my recent dealings with RadioShack “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” assuming of course that Clint doesn’t...

Storis Management Systems has developed a sophisticated voice processing software program that reads and converts delivery routing manifests into computer-generated voice messages, and then...

Coyote Insight (CI), a high-tech market research and strategic planning consultancy founded here by Verity Group veterans Bill Matthies and Grace Post, has embarked...

Years ago, analysts were predicting that paper currency would be completely replaced by new forms of payment such as electronic, plastic and wireless. And...

The new year has brought with it a new look for Best Buy and Good Guys, which recently opened new prototype stores here and...

Partsearch Technologies, here, which provides repair parts information, software and services to retailers, service centers and manufacturers, has entered an alliance with Best Buy...

For all of us, 2001 will be forever shadowed by Sept. 11. Within the collective consciousness, the tragedy has largely blotted out events that...

It is, in a way, ironic that we call ourselves the consumer electronics industry because we really don’t listen enough to what consumers have...

Wireless sales and marketing strategies continue to change, Samsung executives told TWICE. For one thing, carriers “are investing in Q4 to make the year,”...

Sears’ Appliance and Electronics stores are but one element in chairman/ CEO Alan Lacy’s new three-year plan to boost the company’s top and bottom...

“Sex In The City,” “West Wing,” and “The Sopranos” weren’t the only big winners at the Emmy Awards. Panasonic, Hitachi, JVC, Zenith, TiVo, Faroudja...

It’s been years since Macy’s, and, for that matter, most full-line department stores, surrendered their consumer electronics businesses to sharper priced specialty chains. Now,...

In an effort to demystify broadband for consumers while facilitating the sale of ISP contracts, Circuit City has installed Broadband Stations at virtually all...

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has thrown its support behind a Senate bill that would suspend the collection of state sales tax on most...

The following is offered with apologies to MGM’s “That’s Entertainment”: When one tries To offer them some great buys And you say It’s just...

Best Buy is sponsoring the broadcast premier of U2’s Elevation Tour performance in Boston, airing Nov. 23 on VH-1, and will have a two-week...

Four CE devices and one major appliance were among the 17 products picked by Popular Mechanics magazine as winners of its 2002 Design &...

Best Buy has bolstered its online operation by launching two new Web sites that provide entertainment content and digital downloads. Both are linked to...

Despite the soft economy — or perhaps because of it — three of CE’s leading extended service providers have forged new agreements with dealers....

It’s damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead for retailers who are continuing to add stores and infrastructure in the face of a shell-shocked economy....

The challenging retail environment took a toll on third quarter results for Top Five CE merchants RadioShack and Sears, while online upstart Amazon.com posted...

In advance of the all-important holiday selling season, Best Buy and Circuit City are touting the benefits of digital technologies through in-store and road...

To better tailor its programs to the needs of member dealers serving the rent to own (RTO) market, the Brand Source/Associated Volume Buyers buying...

Amid the e-commerce wreckage of the post-Internet bubble business cycle, leading CE specialty e-tailer 800.com continues to expand its operations. Among the pure-play’s latest...

Back from the brink of insolvency, Internet superstore buy.com has reinvented itself in anticipation of the holiday selling season by redesigning its Web site,...