electronics sales

Best Buy is reducing the number of DVDs and CDs it sells to make room for more current and popular products. While the retailer isn't doing away with the category entirely, it has been scaling back over recent years, consistent with the decline of packaged media and rise of digital downloads....

Despite the searing weather and a lukewarm economic recovery, major merchants are expected to report growing retail sales in their August tallies on Thursday. But don't count on the kind of increases we saw at the beginning of the year.

Retail sales keep creeping upward toward the holiday season. Numbers just released by the federal government show most retail segments had higher sales in October than September but, except for a few areas, sales are still lower than even the dismal totals seen in October of last year. Figures...