Also known as Electric Town, Akihabara is a district of electronics stores clad in illuminated signs.
Retailers like Wal-Mart and Amazon are taking business away from pure-play consumer electronics stores by offering huge discounts.
And Japanese electronics stores are filling up with smartphones from Apple and Samsung.
Today, Bare Paint jars and pens are sold on the Internet and stocked by Radio Shack electronics stores across the United States.
While consumers are still lining up for Wiis, reports come from around the country of unwanted PS3 boxes sitting in electronics stores for days at a time.
The first winners, however, could be the dudes in the back of electronics stores who have had to steer their customers through the wreckage over the past month.
Woolworths' shares ended almost flat after profit dropped 17% on restructuring costs and sale of its Dick Smith electronics stores, but came in broadly in line with market expectations.
When e-commerce swept through the world of tangible products, we saw all kinds of startups try to become successful bookstores and toy stores and electronics stores on the Web.
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Thousands of fans line up around electronics stores, pockets brimming not with sharpies and headshots for autographs, but with cash and lots of it, to buy the latest and best the industry has to offer.
Childhood friend Tim Brouk, who attended punk rock shows with Mr. Dorsey, also remembers that Mr. Dorsey liked to browse in specialty electronics stores and ran a fantasy football league for a group of students at their Catholic high school.
Wall Street, meanwhile, is doing its best to handicap the upcoming slugfest, presenting investors with their best and worst bets on department stores, electronics sellers and specialty stores.
Sales were also healthy at building materials and garden supply stores, as well as electronics and appliance stores.
Long lines of customers packed Venezuelan electronics and appliance stores after Friday's announcement of plans to devalue the country's currency by nearly a third.
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Electronics and appliance stores (NAICS code 4431) over the last 12 months have generated around 16 percent sales growth, and net profit margins have strengthened to 4.44 percent.
Propelling that expansion: shopping at electronics and appliance stores.
Schaefer said electronics and appliance stores stand to benefit as students replace smart phones and calculators, and as more schools allow or even encourage students to bring laptop computers to the classroom.
Car dealers, department stores, grocery stores, electronics retailers and sports goods shops all reported a fall in business.
And arriving in Sony Stores and electronics retailers nationwide from the end of the month, check in store or online for the price in your country.
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One famous retail acquisition last year was when Chinese electronics retailer Suning Appliance Co. acquired Laox, a consumer electronics chain with huge stores in Tokyo, Osaka, and other major Japanese cities.
We can imagine big-box electronics companies using their cavernous stores to host gaming tournaments, local DJs shows, or Sunday football parties.
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Growing electronics sales at Best Buy Mobile stores is being driven by demand for smartphone and tablets.
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According to industry analysts, of all the products in stores after the holidays, electronics are the least likely to go on sale.
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The street was dotted with discount stores, souvenir shops and electronics kiosks, as well as a number of locations that stayed vacant for years.
By the end of September, HMV plans to have converted 150 outlets - it's larger stores - into the new electronics-heavy format, in time for the vital Christmas selling season.
Best Buy shares have doubled since the start of the year, but some Wall Street analysts think there is a limit to how much the stores can rebound as online electronics sales continue to grow.
"An owner of a small business is likely coming into their stores already" to look for electronics and other products, he adds.
Merchants of various product types (i.e. electronics, fashion, health, pets) build online stores on the Rakuten platform and sell directly to customers.
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Huge stores hawking a wildly diverse range of complex electronics, computers and appliances with minimal staffing virtually guarantees that repeat customers will be rare.
It also turned out to be a nice fit for Federated, whose Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores can't compete in the consumer-electronics business with discounters like Best Buy.
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