The U.S. Labor Department released its May jobs report last week and it left many economists a little confused.
Should we be excited about 559,000 additional jobs last month, which is one of the highest monthly employment gains in U.S. history?
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A key to achieving business success is growth.
Whether choosing to grow within a market or extending reach statewide, nationally or internationally, businesses must expand continually. The opposite choice — to remain motionless — is to be resigned to stagnation and demise.
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Tragedy struck Crane’s L&M Appliance Center last December with the passing of business owner and family patriarch Raymond Crane.
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Turns out time is money when it comes to furniture delivery.
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Your company is neither a not-for-profit organization nor a charity … so why do some of you insist on running it like one?
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Economists may dismiss recent price increases as temporary aftereffects of the pandemic, but Costco, the nation’s No. 1 wholesale club, is starting to sound the inflationary alarm.
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Best Buy said shoppers’ “extraordinarily high” focus on the home continues to drive consumer demand for appliances and tech products, surpassing even the company’s own projections.
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Records (especially ’80s glam rock) were made to be broken. It’s true in our retail world too.
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In this last of a three-part series honoring those among us who served, we highlight three of the many honorable people in our extended AVB/BrandSource family who answered the call of duty.
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In this second of a three-part series honoring those among us who served, we highlight two of the many honorable people in our extended AVB/BrandSource family who answered the call of duty.
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Memorial Day is a time to honor and remember each of the men and women who have served our country faithfully. We salute all those who effectively gave a blank check payable to the rest of us, for an amount up to and including their lives.
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BrandSource’s Canadian affiliate Mega Group has been recognized as a Platinum Club Member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies program for its 14th consecutive year.
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Good news for retailers this Memorial Day weekend: Amid record-low avoidance of public places in the wake of the pandemic, consumers plan to spend their holiday weekend … spending.
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With folks largely homebound for the better part of 14 months, that finicky refrigerator or cranky cooktop quickly became grating, leading to record purchases of replacement appliances.
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There are two ways to look at the April retail sales numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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I’m serious about that question. I’d really like you to take the time to consider exactly why you get out of bed every morning and go to your store.
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Not many companies get to celebrate their 75th anniversary, but we’re happy to report that BrandSource distribution partner Almo Corp. is an exception.
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Now that registration has gone live for BrandSource’s August 21-24 Convention in Nashville, one could almost taste the barbeque and hear the strains of a slide guitar.
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In the four-and-a-half decades that I’ve been driving, I’ve owned 22 vehicles.
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If there is ever a 10-car pileup on Highway 55 outside of Litchfield, Ill., it might likely be caused by local drivers doing double-takes of a billboard featuring the once larger-than-life “Big Ed” Wernsing, owner of Wernsing’s Appliance, looking fit and trim alongside his doctor.
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