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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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....
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...
“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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Updated! Now that all the gifts are unwrapped and stockings unstuffed, retailers and their customers have entered the last leg of the holiday season....
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...
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...
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...
A new consumer study by digital services firm BloomReach shows that Amazon has utterly dominated the holiday selling season in online searches, shopping and...
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....
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...
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...
You searched online for Thanksgiving deals, snagged a Black Friday doorbuster, and blew your budget on Cyber Monday. Well, here comes another chance to...
Sales of consumer electronics were stronger on Thanksgiving than they were on Black Friday, an assessment by Stitch Labs shows. According to the inventory...
Consumers are buying nearly twice as many TVs this holiday season as last year, a new survey suggests. According to a Christmas shopping forecast...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
When did Black Friday cease being the official Opening Day of holiday discounts and shopping? Was it in 2013 when the trend to open...
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,...
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...