Retailers Scramble for Holiday Shoppers With New Lines, Shipping, Pickup Offers
Bose and Sony’s XBR products are among the “expanded assortment” of products Walmart announced Tuesday for the holiday season. The retailer said it spent the past year expanding its assortment in stores and online to offer its “widest assortment of…
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top gifts at the season’s best prices.” Other brands added to the Walmart vendor list are De’Longhi and Braun in the home products category. Walmart didn’t break out which Sony XBR products would fill the Walmart aisles but said they would launch mid-November. Sony sold 2.8 million TVs globally in Q2 ended Sept. 30, an 8 percent increase sequentially, but a 12.5 percent decrease from Q2 a year earlier, said the company Tuesday (see 1810300012). Sony didn’t respond to questions. The Walmart website showed Tuesday a comprehensive listing of Bose products, including $29 accessories and $99 speakers, going up to $1,398 for a SoundTouch 300 sound bar and Acoustimass 300 base module bundle. Bose didn’t respond to questions. Best Buy said Monday it’s bringing free shipping back for the holiday season with no minimum purchase or membership required. It’s also offering same-day shipping for an unspecified fee for products ordered before 3 p.m. local time (2 p.m. on Sunday) along with store pickup. The free shipping offer for all orders on its site runs through Dec. 25. Target said last week it will offer free two-day shipping to all customers on “hundreds of thousands” of products, no minimum purchase required. Like Best Buy and Walmart, Target noted its free shipping offer doesn’t require a membership, taking a poke at Amazon Prime. Target’s Drive Up service is now available in nearly 1,000 stores, enabling customers to place an order in the Target app and have purchases brought to their car by a team member within an hour, and to the car within two minutes of arrival in the parking lot, it said.