WATSONVILLE, CA — Enjoy tranquil Kelly Lake from this recently reduced lakefront home in Watsonville.
This three-bed, three-bath gem saw an $11,000 price drop to $1.6 million last week.
Expansive windows and a waterfront deck allow residents to bask in natural light and enjoy the stunning views from the property, which is home to abundant wildlife and flora. The gated home features a wet bar and granite kitchen with modern appliances.
Address: 149 Cutter Dr, Watsonville, California
Price: $1,648,000
Square Feet: 3386
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 3 Baths
Built: 1967
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J.C. Penney on Tuesday announced it launched a new home brand, Linden Street.
The brand includes bedding and sheet products ranging between $40 and $220, according to a company press release.
The retailer said it had sustainability in mind when launching the brand, which includes products that are free of more than 300 harmful substances, and feature packaging made with biodegradable labels and recycled polyester.
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Just days after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, J.C. Penney introduced a new collection aimed at bringing "a fresh beginning" to its home private labels, and possibly the retailer itself.
Although launching a new brand while in the bankruptcy process may come as a surprise, part of the retailer's restructuring plan included "offering compelling merchandise." Similarly, Toys R Us in 2017 launched a rebranding campaign and formed a new partnership with marketplace platform Mirakl just days after it filed for Chapter 11. However, the move cost the struggling toy retailer in the long run and Toys R Us eventually ended up liquidating.
The home space is also a sector J.C. Penney had been moving away from in recent years. When then-CEO Marvin Ellison took the helm in 2016, he made a big push to return appliances and furniture to the retailer's stores after it discontinued sales of non-apparel items back in 1983. The move paid off for a while, but in November 2018, Penney executives said that underperforming categories in the third quarter included "big ticket areas and home such as appliances." In February 2019, the retailer announced it would pull appliances and furniture items from its U.S. stores.
The home category is also a sector that has seen increased competition from off-pricers and e-commerce retailers, battering the more traditional players. Pier 1, which filed for bankruptcy protection in February and last week announced it would wind down its U.S. retail operations, had ceded market share to the likes of Wayfair, Amazon and TJX's HomeGoods. Regional chain Art Van furniture also filed for bankruptcy in March, and discount home goods retailer Tuesday Morning is reportedly eyeing a filing as early as this week.
Though, with the sustainability element to the collection, Penney may be trying to attract a younger set of consumers, who tend to favor more environmentally conscious brands.
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The market is fragmented, and the degree of fragmentation will decelerate during the forecast period. AB Electrolux, General Electric Co., Koninklijke Philips NV, LG Electronics Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Panasonic Corp., Robert Bosch GmbH, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sharp Corp., and Whirlpool Corp. are some of the major market participants. The adoption of wireless connecting devices will offer immense growth opportunities. To make the most of the opportunities, market vendors should focus more on the growth prospects in the fast-growing segments, while maintaining their positions in the slow-growing segments.
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Smart Home Appliances Market 2020-2024: Segmentation
Smart Home Appliances Market is segmented as below:
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Smart Washing Machines and Dryers
Smart Air Conditioners
Smart Refrigerators
Smart Microwave Ovens
Smart Dishwashers
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Geographic Landscape
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APAC
Europe
South America
MEA
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Market Sizing
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Market size 2019
Market outlook: Forecast for 2019 - 2024
Five Forces Analysis
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Bargaining power of buyers
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Threat of new entrants
Threat of substitutes
Threat of rivalry
Market condition
Market Segmentation by Product
Market segments
Comparison by Product placement
Smart washing machines and dryers - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
Smart air conditioners - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
Smart refrigerators - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
Smart microwave ovens - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
Smart dishwashers - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
Market opportunity by Product
Market Segmentation by Distribution Channel
Market segments
Comparison by Distribution channel placement
Offline - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
Online - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
Market opportunity by Distribution channel
Customer Landscape
Geographic Landscape
Geographic segmentation
Geographic comparison
North America - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
Europe - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
APAC - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
South America - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
MEA - Market size and forecast 2019-2024
Key leading countries
Market opportunity by geography
Geographic Landscape by Volume
Geographic segmentation
Geographic comparison
Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
Market drivers
Volume driver - Demand led growth
Volume driver - Supply led growth
Volume driver - External factors
Volume driver - Demand shift in adjacent markets
Price driver - Inflation
Price driver - Shift from lower to higher priced units
Market challenges
Market trends
Vendor Landscape
Overview
Vendor landscape
Landscape disruption
Vendor Analysis
Vendors covered
Market positioning of vendors
AB Electrolux
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Koninklijke Philips NV
LG Electronics Inc.
Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
Panasonic Corp.
Robert Bosch GmbH
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Sharp Corp.
Whirlpool Corp.
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Currency conversion rates for US$
Research methodology
List of abbreviations
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Home Depot Memorial Day sales are going strong all weekend long, and now's your best chance to score some new home goods at a steep discount. In general, the best Memorial Day sales tend to focus on appliances, outdoor furniture, and grills — all of which Home Depot is renowned for selling.
So now that Memorial Day weekend is here, we're rounding up the best Home Depot Memorial Day sales you can get. If you're shopping for major appliances, Home Depot has some of the most aggressive deals we've seen. They're taking up to $1,700 off appliances packages from Samsung and LG. As far as standalone appliance sales go, you can expect to save up to 40% on refrigerators, washer/dryer units, and microwaves.
Meanwhile, with summer rapidly approaching, Home Depot is taking up to 40% off portable air conditioners. While not the most efficient, these AC units feature built-in wheels that let you take them to and from any room. After discount, prices start at as low as $260.
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In the coronavirus era, stuck-at-home Americans are loading up on more than just breadmakers. Take Mr Peter Camardella, the 63-year-old owner of a small appliance store in New York. He could not find a deep freezer for his own daughter after his shop sold out.
"Customers have bought one, and they already have two or three. Many buyers are afraid of food shortages," he said.
Even as personal spending in the US plunged the most on record amid stay-at-home orders, people bought all kinds of appliances. Sales from March 15 to April 11 rose for about 70 per cent of the 88 subcategories for home and kitchen goods tracked by market researcher NPD Group.
Some of the gains were just staggering, including electric pasta makers (462 per cent), soft-drink machines (283 per cent), handheld cleaning devices (284 per cent), water filtration machines (152 per cent) and air purifiers (144 per cent).
The much-written-about baking trend also showed up, with purchases of those breadmakers surging more than sixfold.
Lockdown life has forced people to rethink their homes, as they have morphed into spaces where schooling, working, exercising, inventory-stockpiling and germ avoidance are new, high-stakes activities. If history is a guide, that will not change when the world returns to some semblance of normal, according to Mr Ian Bell, a researcher with Euromonitor International.
He noted that people will not fall back into a "psychology of abundance" once the crisis passed. That portends a major shift towards appliances, including adding more space for refrigeration and food storage.
"It won't be business as usual," he said. The phenomenon is global, with regional differences. In countries where people ate out a lot, like Singapore, there are now more pots and pans to clean, thus new interest in dishwashers.
In places where domestic help was common, such as Brazil, the practice has ended due to social distancing, leading to a boom in cleaning devices.
"People are using their appliances more than ever."
The appliance industry is poised to respond because wellness-certified designs and high-tech features, such as voice activation, were already in the innovation pipeline, said Seattle-based kitchen and bath designer Paula Kennedy. "It's amazing, some of the sci-fi things they come up with," she said.
Washing machines with sanitising cycles and Samsung's touchscreen refrigerators are primed to go mainstream more quickly with the added attention on home hygiene in the coronavirus era.
For consumers stockpiling food, a fridge or freezer will be able to alert them when items are about to expire or need to be reordered, Ms Kennedy said.
There are also bathroom exhaust fans equipped with germ-killing LED lights from Wisconsin-based Broan-NuTone.
Consumers can reduce the use of towels, which can spread germs, with hand dryers from UK-based Dyson, or full-body models from Spain's Valiryo Technologies. Even motion-triggered faucets, so hard to turn on in public restrooms, may find traction in the new multi-functional, post-pandemic home.
"If we listen to consumers, there's a whole lot of new need being created," said Mr Joe Derochowski, a home industry analyst at NPD. "This is when stress creates great innovation."
Even big-ticket items are selling amid surging unemployment.
In March, sales in the large-appliance category, which includes washers, ovens and fridges, rose almost 6 per cent from a year ago, according to the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM).
That bucked declines in January and February.
One reason for the gains is that due to social distancing, people are shunning appliance repairs - something they would normally do to save money in an economic downturn.
That has pushed more people to splurge on new dishwashers and refrigerators, according to Ms Jill Notini, a spokesman for the AHAM.
Deep freezers have done especially well, with sales up 45 per cent versus a year ago, according to AHAM data. Most models at the websites of Home Depot and Amazon.com were sold out at the time of writing this story.
The trend appears far from over. Fears over meat shortages spurred another surge in freezer storage, according to Ms Whitney Welch, a spokesman for GE Appliances.
The company, a unit of Qingdao-based Haier Group since 2017, continues to see higher demand. "People are using their appliances more than ever," she said. "They are spending more time with their families under one roof cooking, cleaning and storing food."
For Mr Camardella, the shop owner who sold about 40 deep freezers before running out, there is no relief in sight. He has tried to place orders through a buyer's cooperative only to have delivery dates pushed back.
But he said that has not stopped his customers from pulling out their wallets. "People have been buying refrigerator-freezer combos just to get the freezer."
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A group of Turkish business associations is looking to buy the household appliances operations of Dutch health care equipment maker Philips, Turkish newspaper Sabah reported Friday.
Philips said in January it was looking to separate the household appliances arm, which makes vacuum cleaners and coffee machines and had $2.6 billion in sales in 2019.
Spokesman Steve Klink said the company is still in the process of disentangling the operations, a process expected to take 12-18 months.
"We would only expect to engage... (with potential buyers) after the summer," he said.
The Turkish group includes five leading organizations in the business world: The Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK), exporters' assembly TİM, the chambers and commodity exchanges union (TOBB) and business associations TUSİAD and MUSİAD.
"We as Turkey are the most powerful country in production between Germany and China. Hence an economic model must be created by the Turkish business world forming consortiums and buying global brands," said DEİK board member Murat Kolbaşı.
Turkey has a $1 billion small household appliances market while there are 10,300 small household appliances brands in the world market which are worth $100 billion.
Kolbaşı said that among those, Philips's home appliances arm is the largest with a 2.3 billion euro ($2.5 billion) turnover.
Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan had expressed support for the project, as well.
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Technology has, in one way or another, become one of the driving forces in just about every aspect of our lives. From communication to cooking, as the saying goes, "There's an app (or device) for that." Specifically in the kitchen, however, gadgets are nothing new. However, the introduction of Brava, adoringly dubbed the "Easy-Bake oven for grown-ups," has the sauce that shoppers say is both "game-changing" and "life-changing."
Credit: Brava
While there are seemingly countless countertop appliances on the market that boast signature tech features like the ever-popular Instant Pot and the slew of air fryers available at our fingertips, none seem to boast the elegance and targeted execution of the Brava.
So what exactly makes this appliance so special? Firstly, unlike conventional ovens and heat-powered appliances, it uses light only throughout the entire cooking process.
According to the product's description, this particular technique "allows Brava to achieve a blend of speed and consistency." With lamps located all throughout the device's interior, the Brava "can roast vegetables in half the time, poach eggs with ease, and sear steaks without overcooking them." Also, all throughout this robust cooking time, the outside of the device remains completely cool to the touch.
Credit: Brava
The cooking process also couldn't be simpler thanks to the guided prompts and instructions showcased on the touchscreen, which is located at the top of the device.
Here's how it works: Eliminating the need to stand over a stove or grill or constantly having the need to flip any proteins, Brava just requires that users prepare the ingredients. Once seasoned to your liking, place the ingredients on the suggested tray (included in the purchase), and slide them into the device. Now for the fun part: Follow the prompts, and let Brava work its magic — It's that easy!
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Also, users can cook up to three courses at once with this device, and, thanks to its internal cameras, the cooking process can be monitored from the screen or via the Brava app which also alerts you when your food is done.
On days when you're also not sure of what to prepare, Brava's built-in recipe guide features hundreds of full meal recipes (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, desserts and more) and directions to get you started.
Credit: Brava
Proving that this kitchen gadget is arguably the only powerhouse your kitchen needs, Brava can sear, toast, bake, dehydrate, air fry, reheat and keep food warm. To give you an idea of its power and precision, this appliance can even roast an entire whole chicken in just 30 minutes!
So, what are shoppers' honest opinions of this one-of-a-kind kitchen gadget? According to one five-star reviewer, it's hands down, the "best appliance ever!"
"It took my mom a lot to convince me to get to buy the Brava. Mostly because I did not believe that something that good existed!" the shopper wrote. "It was love at first sight! it is sooooo easy and the meals come out just perfect. Love it!"
A second shopper dubbed it a "game-changing, life-changing oven" before gushing that it "has solved all of my problems when it comes to cooking and eating well."
"It has never been easier, faster, and simpler for me to make any food or meal of choice!" the shopper added. "I can make a full tray of butternut squash in 12 minutes, start to finish! I can make incredible seared salmon in 5 minutes and 30 seconds!"
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A New York Times review of the Brava also sang its praises, dubbing it the next best kitchen invention to take over.
"The microwave oven did not revolutionize home cooking," author Florence Fabricant wrote. "Nor did sous-vide gadgetry. Now there's a new contender: the Brava Oven."
The folks at Brava have offered In The Know readers an exclusive $200-off discount on any of the three models(Starter Kit, Bake & Breakfast or Chef's Choice). Simply click on this link and a banner indicating that the discount is applied will appear at the top of your screen.
It should be noted that the only difference among these three options is the included number of extra cookware pieces and pans — each package comes with the appliance as well as a two-year Brava Plus Membership.
This complimentary membership is described as "the cloud service" that brings Brava chefs "into your kitchen." Through this program, premium recipes, cook modes and more are added to your Brava via an automatic software update that's pushed to the device every week via WiFi. The latest update (May 20) included a new slow cooker function, adding to the slew of features currently available for the device.
Brava's certainly the future of cooking. Take advantage of the exclusive offer, above. It expires on May 25 at 12:00 p.m. PST.
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