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Costco CE Sales, And Minimum Wage, A-Rising
Holiday and Super Bowl sales of big-screen TVs helped drive up Costco’s CE comps by the low to mid-teens during its second fiscal quarter....
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4K OK In Q4 … If You Could Find It
The following discussion is an excerpt from TWICE’s annual Executive Retail Roundtable, held during CES 2016. TWICE: Dave, you predicted last year that 4K...
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Holiday 2015 Not All It Was Cracked Up To Be For CE Retailers
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It...
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Holiday Takeaways: A Retail To-Do List For 2016
As retailers count their receipts and/or lick their wounds from Holiday 2015, MasterCard has released what it considers to be the top lessons learned...
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Best Buy Had Ho-Hum Holiday
“Significant declines” in mobile phones, tablets and digital imaging led to a nearly 1 percent dip in Best Buy’s U.S. revenue over the holiday selling...
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Holiday Promos Hurt Sales At hhgregg, Conn’s
Fierce holiday discounting and month-long “Black November” promotions took a toll on two of the industry’s largest multiregional big-box chains. hhgregg president/CEO Dennis May...
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Christmas Weekend Web Sales Outpaced Black Friday: Verizon Study
Santa and crew hardly left the station before shoppers resumed their e-commerce cavorting, a Verizon study showed. According to the carrier’s Retail Index, which tracks consumer...
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Holiday Sales Up 8%: MasterCard
Despite reports of a so-so holiday season, MasterCard said retail sales were up 7.9 percent year-over-year. According to the company’s SpendingPulse report on consumer...
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$50 Fire Tablet Was Amazon’s Top Holiday Seller
Demand for Amazon’s 7-inch Fire tablet set the e-commerce site ablaze this holiday season. The $50 device, launched 15 weeks ago, was the retailer’s...
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ICYMI: Holidays Enter The Home Stretch
Updated! Now that all the gifts are unwrapped and stockings unstuffed, retailers and their customers have entered the last leg of the holiday season....
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Holiday 2015: It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over
As the pre-Christmas shopping cycle winds down, retailers are girding themselves for Round 2. That’s the period between Dec. 26 and New Year’s when...
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Saturday Was Super For Online Retailers
So-called Super Saturday, the last Saturday before Christmas, lived up to its expectations this weekend as one of the busiest shopping days of the...
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Delivery Companies Stressed By Holiday Orders
As e-commerce grows, and shipping revenues fall, retailers also pinched E-commerce has apparently become a victim of its own success. As more and more...
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Amazon Crushing The Holiday Season: Report
A new consumer study by digital services firm BloomReach shows that Amazon has utterly dominated the holiday selling season in online searches, shopping and...
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Best Buy, Sears, hhgregg Lure Last-Minute Christmas Shoppers
With Christmas little more than a week away, retailers are mounting a final round of pre-holiday promotions to grab their fair share of procrastinators....
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Target Wraps Up Holidays With Final Pre-Christmas Push
With an estimated 30 percent of holiday shoppers still waiting to hit the stores, Target is gearing up for its final pre-Christmas promotion of...
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Holiday Shopping’s Far From Over: Report
With only 10 days left before Christmas, retailers had better brace for a final barrage of holiday sales. Despite an earlier-than-ever start to the...
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‘Green Monday’ Promises Another Spike In Online Sales
You searched online for Thanksgiving deals, snagged a Black Friday doorbuster, and blew your budget on Cyber Monday. Well, here comes another chance to...
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Black Friday Postscript: Tech Did Better On Thanksgiving
Sales of consumer electronics were stronger on Thanksgiving than they were on Black Friday, an assessment by Stitch Labs shows. According to the inventory...
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TV Sales Have Doubled This Holiday Season: Survey
Consumers are buying nearly twice as many TVs this holiday season as last year, a new survey suggests. According to a Christmas shopping forecast...
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Reflections On Cyber Black Thanksfriday
America’s annual rite of overindulgence has come and gone, leaving retailers to count their receipts and pundits to ponder the repercussions. What’s become clear...
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Staples, Best Buy Had An Appy Thanksgiving
As more shoppers let their fingers do the walking with smartphones and tablets on Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend, mobile shopping apps also played a bigger...
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How Video & Audio Center Bested Black Friday
Amid last weekend’s holiday shopping frenzy, when doorbuster deals drew large crowds and low margins, at least one independent tech dealer decided to take...
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Storefronts Down, Online Up In Holiday Weekend Tally
The final tallies are in, and it appears brick-and-mortar took a shellacking over the Black Friday weekend, as more and more consumers migrated to...
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Amazon Devices On Fire Over Black Friday Weekend
Amazon’s family of proprietary tech products got a running start to its holiday haul last weekend. The world’s largest e-tailer said it sold millions...
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Which Products, Retailers And Channels Won The Holiday Weekend
Though merchants are still tabulating their weekend takes, and we’re still only midway through Cyber Monday, early returns are pointing to the leaders, and...
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On The Scene: Best Buy Tackles Black Friday
It’s here — or, rather, it’s gone. Despite what some have deemed a backlash against stores opening on Thanksgiving, many shoppers still forsake their...
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hhgregg Starting Weekend Sales Tonight
In the holiday game of early-sale one-upmanship, hhgregg is scoring points by kicking off its weekend event this evening. Beginning online only at 9 p.m....
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Toshiba Tops Staples’ Cyber Monday Stable
Staples has joined the Cyber Monday pre-announcement fray with a notebook-heavy lineup of sale-priced Toshiba Satellites, HP Pavilions and Lenovo Ideapads. Tablets, by Amazon,...
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Amazon’s Cyber Week Begins On Saturday
Cyber Monday is shaping up to be a battle royale for digital dominance, and Amazon is not about to cede any ground. The world’s...
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Kmart Kicking Off Cyber Monday Deals On Sunday
Attention Kmart shoppers! Taking a page from Walmart, the chain will begin its Cyber Monday deals on Sunday, Nov. 29, and transform the one-day...
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Best Buy’s Cyber Monday Ad Leaked
The gremlins are at it again, and have managed to post Best Buy’s Cyber Monday sales circular. In keeping with the day’s digital theme,...
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Toys‘R’Us Cyber Monday Ad Leaked
Santa’s sleigh will be a little less digital on Cyber Monday if Toys“R”Us has its way. The chain’s Cyber Monday ad was leaked on...
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Target’s Cyber Monday Ad Is Leaked
Target.com’s Cyber Monday specials have leaked, and the 75-odd deals are light on tech, heavy on apparel. That should come as no surprise, as...
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Micro Center Begins Black Friday Sale Now
Micro Center isn’t waiting until the day after Thanksgiving to start its Black Friday sale. The regional IT specialty chain has already put more...
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Why Cyber Monday Matters Now More Than Ever
As the battle for e-tail escalates, Cyber Monday has taken on a new significance. Case in point: Target, which is going for broke Nov....
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Everything You Need To Know About Black Friday 2015
Welcome to your one-stop shop for everything Black Friday and Holiday 2015! We’re tracking all plans, ads and openings for consumer electronics and major...
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Target Taking 15% Off Entire Site On Cyber Monday
For the first time ever, Target.com is cutting prices on its entire online assortment by 15 percent on Cyber Monday. In addition to the...
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Walmart Starting Cyber Monday Early With 4X More Deals
Walmart.com plans to get a head start on post-Black Friday sales by launching its largest-ever Cyber Monday event on Sunday night. The discounter’s e-tail...
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Has Black Friday ‘Jumped The Shark’?
When did Black Friday cease being the official Opening Day of holiday discounts and shopping? Was it in 2013 when the trend to open...
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GameStop Drops Black Friday Week Ad
GameStop, which last month declared a moratorium on Thanksgiving hours, has pre-empted the holiday by launching a 10-day Black Friday Week sale. The promotion,...
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Newegg Plans Week-Long Black Friday Sale
Newegg, which has been running sales all month long under its Black November campaign, will really ratchet things up next week. That’s when the...