Retail
Amazon To Invest Over $700M In Employee Training Programs
“Upskill” program to span the next six years
retail
Accessories
Toys ‘R’ Us Set To Return To U.S. In 2019
The iconic toy store will have small-scale re-entry to market
Retailing
Target Takes On Amazon Prime Day With “Target Deal Days”
No membership required to purchase deals
Retail
Amazon: 22 AmazonBasics Products Are Best-Sellers Across 51 Categories
AA batteries and microfiber cleaning cloths most popular AmazonBasics products
Retail
Kohl’s Launches Sensory-Friendly, Adaptive Apparel Line
New clothing part of Jumping Beans, SO and Urban Pipeline brands
Retail
Best Buy Welcomes Fifth CEO Corie Barry
Hubert Joly becomes executive chairman in leadership transition
Retail
Target Rolls Out Enhanced Family Care Benefits
Part-time, hourly and salary team members to benefit beginning fall 2019
Computers
Best Laptops Of 2019 – Tested & Reviewed: Laptop Mag
Best picks include Dell XPS 13, Acer Aspire E 15
Research
CouponFollow: 42% Of Online Shoppers Blowing Their Budgets
78% of online shoppers search for coupons before purchase
Retail
Sears Hometown And Outlet Stores To Reunite With Sears And Kmart
Transform Holdco LLC to acquire both in Q3 merger
Retail
Electronic Express Sets Open Date For 3rd Alabama Store
Electronic Express announced the date when its third Alabama retail store will open: July 11.
Retail
Stores Are Understaffed & Inefficient, Say The Workers Inside Them
New polls points to opportunities in AI, predictive business models.
Retail
Video & Audio Center Doubling Down In Century City
VAC's new Galleria showcase is due next month.
Industry
Shocking: Consumer Creep Factor Is High With Invasive Technologies
(I always feel like) somebody's watching me...
Products
Retail Sales Strategies for the Ecosystem of 4K Products
Watch this video series for real-world sales strategies and tips to help position your store to sell more 4K products. Top 5 Things Retailers...
Keeping Current
Why Retail Will Survive AR, VR & Drones
Technology can be a boon to brick-and-mortar too.
Retail
Consumers Ponying Up For Cutting-Edge Tech
They want it all, they want it now — and they’ll pay for it
Blogs
Using Retail Technology To Empower Your Team
Tech retailers, more than most, should have the right tools at hand.
Retail
Driving Revenue Through Convenience and Hospitality
You will never, ever meet a retailer who says, “I’m making enough money now, thanks! I don’t need additional revenue!” No, every retailer in...
4K UHD Resource Center
On-Demand Webinar: Retailer’s Inside Guide to 4K UHD TV Sales
Cindy Davis, Chief Content Officer of CustomCo Media, and panelists Brian Markwalter, Senior Vice President, Research and Standards, from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)and...
Retail
Retailers To Trump: No Chinese Tariffs
Best Buy, Walmart and 23 other national chains are imploring the president to re-think his import duties.
Retail
Retail Retrenchment To Continue Into 2019: Tiger Group
In retail, as in baseball: It ain’t over ’til it’s over
CE Financial Strategies
Case Study: Protecting Orders in an Unpredictable Retail Environment
Keeping up with the Joneses — much less keeping ahead — is an ongoing challenge for all consumer technology companies. If you’re going to...
CE Financial Strategies
Protecting Your Biggest and Most Important Accounts from All Contingencies
In a volatile retail environment that often includes a significant reliance on a few large, important accounts, consumer electronic product vendors can protect themselves...
news
U.S. Retailers Upbeat About Biz But Behind In Digital: KPMG Panel
Chief execs at retail and consumer goods companies are overwhelmingly upbeat about business, though most concede they’re behind the eight ball in digital capabilities,...
Keeping Current
Wall Street Bets Amazon Will Doom Department Stores, Retailers
The report notes that although investors haven’t been this down on retail since 2008 and the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, they’ve been wrong before (many...
Keeping Current
Next-Gen Retail May Be Unrecognizable
In this controversial think piece, retail industry futurist Doug Stephens extrapolates current industry trends to portend that as Amazon becomes the world’s Sears catalog, and...
Blogs
Behold The Retail Renaissance
The following column was filed prior to Hurricane Irma. TWICE wishes all Florida retailers and residents a speedy recovery. Recent news has highlighted a...
news
IHL Group Debunks The Retail Apocalypse
U.S. retailers are opening 4,080 more stores in 2017 than they are closing, and plan to open over 5,500 more in 2018, according to...
Keeping Current
Are You Committing The Seven Deadly Sins Of Retail?
Retail analysts at Credit Suisse have identified seven industry “sins” that are contributing to the current retail retrenchment. “Credit Suisse has released a list of “seven...
news
Independents Thrive As Box Stores Dive: Report
A retail apocalypse may be upon us, but it appears to be limited to big-box chain stores. According to an analysis by small-business advisor...
Blogs
The Future Of Shopping: It’s In The Details
Despite the growth of online shopping, many consumers still revel in the experience of going to brick-and-mortar locations to purchase goods. In a physical...
Blogs
Free Mints At Checkout
In the early 2000s, some U.S. psychologists wanted to see if preemptive reward, in the form of free mints at a restaurant, would lead...
news
Retail Is Dead, Long Live Retail
Sometimes it really is hard to see the forest for the trees. As students of CE retail, it’s all too easy to get caught...
Blogs
How Brands Can Become Mobile-First
2016 proved that digital is the way of life, which means mobile capabilities need to be incorporated to any brand’s or retailer’s sales strategies....
news
Get Ready For A Retail Retrenchment
“These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood.” — Pete Clemenza, “The Godfather”...