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Toys R Us drove their customers away. Huge boxes poorly merchandised with mediocre assortments, ineffective supply chain management, and dirty, dingy stores. Wal-Mart and Target really didn’t have to do much to take share. Provide clean, well lighted departments with key item assortments supported by...

Is it good business to explore additional and complementary revenue sources?  Does it stand to reason that home electronics and home improvement should be very complementary businesses?Are CE manufacturers alarmed about their increasingly concentrated volume with a shrinking set of retailers, like...

After rolling back prices on toys last month, Wal-Mart has now earmarked nearly 100 CE products for "price rollbacks", and announced that this is just the second set in a series of planned price cuts on thousand of key holiday items.How aggressive are the price cuts? Last week Wal-Mart reduced a current...

Using Geek Squad as the model, Firedog has the potential to become a billion dollar business without taking any share from Best Buy.Geek Squad is projected to generate one billion dollars in revenue in 2007. That's just 5% of the $20 billion small business and home services market vs. a 17% share in...

Wider assortments, good in-stock position and ability to shop from the convenience of your own chair on your own schedule are three great benefits for anxious, time strapped holiday shoppers. Recent strides in allowing on-line orders for in-store pick up can sweeten the experience significantly.

Consumers are ready to do their part to make for a happy holiday, and this year brilliant gift giving sounds like a nice antidote for all the recent bad news. Brilliant will not be defined by one or two stand out items,  but by a variety of smart, thoughtful and useful gifts purchased from retailers...