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Appliance Community Featured Group 

Confessions of an Organ Donor: Somebody Got a Piece of Me, and I Got Peace of Mind

December 30, 2020January 5, 2021 YSN Staff

“Ms. Donadieu, we are very sorry, but there is nothing that can be done to help your daughter. You are going to have to watch her disease progress.”

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BrandSource Embracing the Luxury Appliance Biz

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 Alan Wolf

While the box stores slug it out for opening-price point volume, premium appliances have largely stayed above the fray.

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Appliance CE Featured Furniture Industry 

November Sales Seesaw for Furniture, Appliance and CE Dealers

December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 Alan Wolf

November was a mixed bag for specialty retailers selling furniture, appliances and consumer electronics.

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Appliance Featured Furniture 

You’re Not Gonna Believe How Much Online Furniture and Appliance Sales Have Grown

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Alan Wolf

Even before the pandemic, AVB has long preached the need for a compelling digital presence in order to win in the evolving retail marketplace.

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Appliance Featured Members 

Why Every Retailer Needs a Stephen in Their Lives

December 10, 2020December 11, 2020 Rich Lindblom

Back in the late 1980s our family-owned appliance business had already been around for over 30 years and we had two stores. Maytag had announced yet another reorganization of its sales territories and our store was assigned a new sales rep. When I found out who our new rep was, I was not happy.

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Appliance Featured Industry Members 

Blast from the Past: When Doing the Laundry Was a Gas

December 10, 2020December 11, 2020 Andy Kriege

We all take it for granted that doing a load of laundry is an almost effortless task. However, in my grandmother’s day, laundry was a full-blown chore. Her traditional day for laundry was Monday. She called it “laundry day” because it took the entire day to knock out a week’s worth of wash for the family of six.

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Appliance Featured Industry 

Home Depot Banking on its Burgeoning Furniture Biz

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 Alan Wolf

The fact that quarantined consumers are spending their vacation funds on furniture has hardly been lost on The Home Depot.

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Appliance Featured Industry 

GE Goes Off into the Wild Blue Yonder to Improve Deliveries

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Alan Wolf

GE Appliances (GEA) is leveraging the latest information technology and machine learning tools to help make its fulfillment function smarter and more efficient.

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Appliance Community Featured 

Electrolux Helps Stock Kitchens with Hope

December 2, 2020December 3, 2020 Alan Wolf

Electrolux North America helped make Thanksgiving a little brighter for thousands of Tennesseans last month by donating $150,000 worth of pots, pans and kitchen utensils to United Way of Greater Nashville.

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Appliance Featured 

Electrolux’s New $300M Refrigeration Plant to Hit its Stride Next Year

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 Alan Wolf

Electrolux’s three-year-long revamp of its Anderson, S.C., refrigeration facilities is expected to come to fruition by the middle of next year.

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Appliance Featured 

Electrolux Enters Garment Care Biz

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020 Alan Wolf

Electrolux is looking to clean up this holiday season with a licensed line of garment care products.

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Appliance CE Featured 

Retail Sales Return to Earth for Appliance and Electronics Stores

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 Alan Wolf

Sell-through at appliance and electronics specialty stores slipped 3.9 percent in October, according to the latest monthly sales estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Appliance Featured 

Whirlpool Launches Laundry Detergent Line

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 Alan Wolf

Whirlpool is looking to clean up the laundry business, and not just with its popular front- and top-load washers.

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Appliance Featured 

LG Launches Celebrity ‘Homestyle’ Campaign

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 Alan Wolf

Quarantines may have kept people apart this year, but a new social media marketing effort by LG Electronics is bringing a diverse group of celebrities together in the kitchen, albeit virtually.

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Appliance Featured Industry 

Best Buy Breaks the Black Friday Barrier, Home Depot Right Behind

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 Alan Wolf

Once upon a time, Black Friday promotions were actually held… on Black Friday.

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Appliance Featured Group 

Washington Post Spotlights Appliance and Service Tech Shortages

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 Alan Wolf

An article in last week’s The Washington Post has helped bring national attention to a topic near and dear to self-servicing BrandSource members: the dearth of trained repair techs.

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Appliance Featured 

Whirlpool CEO Marc Bitzer Talks Supply Constraints, Consumer Trends

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 Alan Wolf

Coming off a solid third quarter that saw net earnings rise nearly 11 percent and North American margins hit a record 19.2 percent, Whirlpool chairman/CEO Marc Bitzer was nevertheless quizzed about continuing inventory tightness during an earnings call with investors last week.

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Appliance Events Featured 

KBIS, Builders’ Show Go All Virtual

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 Alan Wolf

Taking a page from the BrandSource playbook, the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show (KBIS), the country’s largest trade event for home appliances, has decided to go all virtual for its annual exhibition this winter.

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Appliance Featured 

LG Announces Laundry Breakthrough with ‘LG Washtower’ Innovation

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 YSN Staff

LG Electronics USA is modernizing laundry with the rollout of the revolutionary LG WashTower™.

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Appliance Featured 

Whirlpool Launches Largest-Capacity Third Rack Dishwashers

October 16, 2020October 20, 2020 Alan Wolf

In response to a COVID-related increase in home-cooked meals — and the concomitant rise in sinks piled high with dirty dishes — Whirlpool has introduced what it describes as the brand’s largest-capacity third-rack dishwasher line.

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