The Top 5 Digital Tools for Winning Online: A Checklist
No doubt dealers’ transactional websites kept their businesses going during the state-mandated lockdowns.
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Sign of the Times: AVB Offers Free Showroom Safety Signage
Whether by choice or government stipulation, most BrandSource members have implemented safety measures to help prevent customers and staff from contracting coronavirus.
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AVB Bows ‘Apply & Buy’ Consumer Credit Program with Citi
Frictionless transactions are the goal of all e-commerce sites, and a new on-the-spot consumer credit program from AVB can help make members’ online sales downright seamless while giving them payment parity with national chains.
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Feds Release PPP Loan Forgiveness Application
The Small Business Administration (SBA) and the U.S. Treasury Department have released an 11-page application for borrowers seeking loan forgiveness under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
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Making a Splash in a Sea of Sameness
Rule No. 1 of marketing, and retail in particular, seems to always be the same: If something works, then run it until you beat the snot out of it and watch it die.
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JCPenney Given Two Months to Avoid Liquidation
JCPenney’s lenders are giving the bankrupt retailer two months to come up with an acceptable turnaround plan or face either a sale of the business or liquidation.
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Most Consumers Express Caution Over Post-Lockdown Lifestyle
Although everyone is surely stir-crazy at best by weeks of mandatory lockdowns, consumers are still leery about resuming their pre-COVID lifestyles even after stay-at-home orders are eased.
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U.S. Retail Takes a Pounding in April
Despite a solid showing by BrandSource members, the majority of the nation’s retailers took it on the chin last month as the full effects of the COVID crisis took hold.
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BrandSource Members Say Business is Booming
BrandSource dealers are generally reporting solid sales amid the health crisis, limited only by product availability.
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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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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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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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AVB’s Checklist for the ‘New Normal’
As states relax their shelter-in-place regulations and consumers reemerge from their homes, dealers must be ready to conduct business in the new retail environment.
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Whirlpool Easing the Anguish of the Global Pandemic
As one of the world’s largest manufacturers of home appliances — products that sanitize our clothes and cookware and keep our food safe — Whirlpool Corp. is uniquely positioned to help in the fight against coronavirus.
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Doing Business in the ‘New Normal,’ Part II
AVB will hold the second in a two-part webinar series tomorrow (Tuesday, May 12) on conducting business in the “new normal.”
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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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The Brave New World of Furniture Retail
No question the world has radically changed in the last two months, and furniture retail is no exception.
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AVB Offers Guidelines on Getting Back to Business
As states began lifting stay-at-home directives and sidelined stores started reopening, AVB presented the first in a two-part webinar series this week to help BrandSource members resume showroom operations.
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Retail Group Foresees Gradual U.S. Recovery
The nation’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis is likely to be an uphill climb and will probably vary by location.
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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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