Daugherty Appliance Talks Fridge Sales, Safety on Local News
Minnesota BrandSource member Daugherty Appliance Sales & Service was featured on a local TV news segment this week regarding brisk refrigeration demand amid the COVID outbreak.
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Pattersons Providing ‘Virtual’ Service to Keep Staff and Customers Safe
The times they certainly are a-changin’ and so too are BrandSource members, who are turning to digital platforms to assist their customers during the coronavirus outbreak.
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No Stranger to Danger, Moderno Moves into Crisis Management Mode
Moderno Appliance in Lawrence, Mass., is no stranger to disasters.
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Why Duerden’s and its Customers Are Attached to Warranties
Product warranties and the high margins they provide play an important role in retail. Indeed, attachment sales of these highly profitable products have often made the difference between red and black ink for big-box chains.
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Live Chat Providing a Lifeline to Homebound Customers
With many members’ showrooms either closed or limiting hours and traffic, websites in general and live chat in particular have become crucial conduits to the consumer.
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Grand Appliance Continues its Tradition of Community Service Through the COVID Crisis
Given its long track record of helping others, it should come as no surprise that Grand Appliance and TV’s response to the pandemic, through its charitable Grand Foundation, has been just that: grand.
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Coping with COVID: L.H. Brubaker Shares its Safety Guidelines
L.H. Brubaker Appliances & Water Treatment is a family-owned appliance chain in Eastern Pennsylvania with three stores and 67 employees, and owner Don Frank Sr. takes the health and safety of his staff and customers very seriously.
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Urner’s is Back in the Saddle
Urner’s, the 101-year-old BrandSource dealer in Bakersfield, Calif., reopened two of its three locations on May 1.
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From Marching Bands to Household Brands, Mark Wayman Remains the Conductor
Mark Wayman left Martinsville, Ind., in the 1980s to pursue a career teaching music. He never dreamed that his journey would come full circle and that he would be back running the family business selling furniture and appliances in the town he grew up in.
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Meat and Greet: Logel Appliance Supports New York Farmers
BrandSource member Jennifer Lingenfelter was perplexed. On one hand, the President of Logel Appliance in Upstate New York was hearing reports of a meat shortage that could put a crimp in family meals.
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Ken’s Announces Winners of Nurse Week Promotion
BrandSource member Ken’s Appliance and Mattress in Grand Island, Neb., conducted a National Nurse’s Day giveaway that culminated this week with the winners announced in a drawing on Facebook Live.
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Ken’s Appliance Salutes Nurses with Online Promotion
The world may feel like it is on pause right now, but it’s the complete opposite for the countless nurses tirelessly working day-in-day-out to keep people alive amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Don’s Appliances’ Laundry Event Cleans Up for Area Food Bank
Never in its 40 year history has the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank (the Food Bank) experienced need on the scale wrought by the current health and economic crisis.
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Your Salesperson Will See You Now…
Got an appointment? You can now add appliance sales associate to the list that includes your doctor, your barber, your accountant and your dog groomer.
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Ken’s Appliance Holds Record Tent Sale, Minus the Tent
Ken’s Appliance & America’s Mattress Gallery in Grand Island, Neb., reinvented its annual Memorial Day tent sale by conducting the event entirely online this year.
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Heartland Home Store Takes Design Inspiration from AVB Summit
Tracy and Daniel Ainslie started their business just under a year ago in an old T-shirt shop in Sturgis, S.D., a town known more for the roar of Harley Davidson engines than boutique retail stores with a flair for design.
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If You Promote it, They Will Come
David Jones knew that digital promotions were successful in other places; however, the owner of Jones Appliance & TV was skeptical that they would be as effective in Iowa Falls, a town of 5,000 just big enough to poke through the corn stalks.
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Colders Giving COVID the Cold Shoulder
Tom Balistreri and his team at Colders Furniture and Appliance in Milwaukee embraced a new maxim when the COVID crisis first hit these shores: “We need to be flexible; we need to be resilient; and we need to persevere!”
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COVID Burning You Out? You’re Not Alone
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines “burnout” as “chronic stress that is not successfully managed.”
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Whirlpool, Ashley Make Tough Calls on COVID
The global pandemic has forced dealers and vendors to respond to supply chain disruptions and COVID outbreaks in creative and often dramatic ways.
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