BLACK FRIDAY WAS BLU
December 5, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
What with Walmart selling Blu-ray Disc players for $38 on Black Friday, sales of the devices soared 20 percent versus the same day a year ago, even as consumer electronics sales as a whole fell 5.6 percent on the biggest day of the year for retail sales, according to a study by researchers NPD Group […]
JAPAN DISASTERS COULD HIT CONSUMER ELECTRONICS HARD
March 24, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Sales of consumer-electronics items, including television sets, DVD players, cameras, personal computers, and video-game players are likely to be impacted by the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami, Advertising Age observed today (Thursday). The trade publication observed that while the final assembly of those products takes place in other Asian countries, the components are made in […]
LONGTIME L.A. TV RETAILER CALLING IT QUITS
June 21, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Suggesting that the economy in general and the consumer-electronics business in particular are not making the recovery that some pundits have claimed, a 62-year-old California retail chain that has specialized in low-priced big-screen TV sets is calling it quits. Ken Crane’s, which had already shut down six of its 10 stores in January, said on […]
