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.
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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...
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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”...
Another View
Retail: More Than Just Transactions
When asked by industry friends how I am spending my “semi-retirement” as I like to call it, aside from my continued work with TWICE,...
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China’s Tech Dealers Doing It Right
China is already a manufacturing center for consumer electronics. Now it’s retail’s turn. A visit this week to the ritzy The MixC shopping mall,...
Blogs
Gay Marriage Gets Support From Tech & Retail
Today’s landmark decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the legality of same-sex marriage was the culmination of decades of struggle. And, in the...
news
Imports Recovering After West Coast Port Strike
Washington — Import cargo volume for the nation’s retailers is rebounding after the long West Coast port strike, according to the National Retail Federation...
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