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Tag Archives: COVID
Report: CE State Of The Industry 2023
Sales of premier consumer technology products – smartphones, TVs, PCs/tablets, smart home, for instance – continue to dip. High-interest rates, inflation, and recession fears continue to either delay discretionary consumer purchasing or are pushing consumers to “trade down” to lower-priced … Continue reading
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Tagged AVB, BrandSource, COVID, CTA, desktop PCs, IDC, inventory, LG, recession, retail, Samsung, smart home, smartphones, supply chain, Ukraine, Vision Pro, VR, World Wide Stereo
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The Consumer Technology Business In 2022: A Return To Normalcy?
As the impact of the pandemic and supply chain problems fade, and even considering lingering economic uncertainty, a sense of normalcy seems to have returned to the consumer tech industry in 2022. Read the rest of this story here at … Continue reading
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Tagged brick & mortar, China, COVID, holiday shopping, inventory, pandemic, PC, quarantine, supply chain
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Consumer Tech 2022: The State of the Industry
How are manufacturers and retailers holding up under multiple supply chain, product and component shortages, the Great Resignation, distribution backlogs, fuel prices, and inflation/recession pressures? Read the rest of this report here are TWICE.com.
Posted in cell/smartphones, home office, smart home, TV/4K/UHD/8K, TWICE
Tagged Consumer Technology Association, COVID, CTA, inflation, LG, Nationwide, Reticle Research, Samsung, Sony, TCL
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Executive Insight: Howard’s Riddle Shares Insights Into Pandemic Trends
How will the experience dealing with Covid thus far help retailers deal with these current pandemic conditions? What lessons are likely to carry forward beyond the current Covid crisis? Are there differences between how entertainment and home office device retailers … Continue reading
Posted in smart home, TWICE
Tagged appliances, BOPIS, COVID, Howard's, Omicron, retailing, smart appliances
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SmartTechCheck Podcast: CES 2022 Preview
My December 30, 2021 appearance on the SmartTechCheck podcast with host Mark Vena and fellow tech reporter John Quain. This week we previewed the upcoming CES 2021 and recapped the top tech trends of the year. Watch the video of … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, cell/smartphones, home office, smart home, SmartTechCheck Podcast, TV/4K/UHD/8K, VR/AR
Tagged 8K, CES, CES 2022, COVID, home office, Matter, virtual reality, VR
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Business in the COVID-19 Era? ‘Challenging’
In-store traffic is down. Staffing presents uncomfortable and conflicting moral and economic conundrums. Vendors can’t seem to produce the products they want or deliver the products retailers need. Retailers are discovering demand for products in unexpected volumes. And yet…. Read … Continue reading
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Tagged BOPIS, Consumer electronics, coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, NPD Group, ProSource, U.S. Census Bureau
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COVID-19 Uncertainty Clouds Q4 Outlook
Will we experience a second wave of coronavirus – or an extended first wave – that will stall economic revival through the fall? How do consumer technology retailers and vendors plan for the holiday season with so many unknowns? Read the rest … Continue reading
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Tagged 4K TV, 5G, BOPIS, consumer technology, coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, iPhone 12, NPD, PlayStation 5, Sony PlayStation 5, webcams, webrooming, WFH
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COVID Prompts Higher Appliance Replacements
Wary of in-home repair in the age of COVID, consumers are opting more than ever to replace their quickly-aging appliances. Read this report here at TWICE.com.
Posted in smart home, TWICE
Tagged appliances, caronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, electronics, repair, replace, retailer, TWICE
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