Consumer electronics, are electronic (analog or digital) devices typically used in private homes for everyday use. Consumer electronics include devices used for entertainment, communication, and recreation. They are often referred to as black goods because many are housed in black or dark-colored cases. This term is used to distinguish them from "white goods", which are used for cleaning tasks such as washing machines and refrigerators, although today these are considered black goods, some of which are connected to the Internet, and are often referred to as brown goods by producers and sellers in British English. In the 2010s, this distinction did not exist in large, large consumer electronics stores, which sold both entertainment and communications as well as home office equipment and kitchen appliances such as refrigerators.

Radio broadcasting in the early 1900s brought xxx major consumer product, the radio receiver. Later products included telephones, televisions, and calculators, followed by audio and video recorders and players, game consoles, personal computers, and MP3 players. In the 2010s, consumer electronics stores often sold GPS, automotive electronics (car stereos), video game consoles, electronic musical instruments (e.g., synthesizer keyboards), karaoke machines, digital cameras, and video players (VCRs in the 1980s and 1990s) through DVD players and Blu-ray players. Stores also sell smart appliances, digital cameras, camcorders, cell phones and smartphones. Some of the newer products sold include virtual reality head-mounted display goggles, smart home devices which are connected home devices connected to the Internet and wearable technology.

In the 2010s, most consumer electronics products have been based on digital technology and have converged to a large extent with the computer industry in what is increasingly referred to as the consumerization of information technology. Some consumer electronics stores have also begun selling office and baby furniture. Consumer electronics stores may be "bricks and mortar" brick-and-mortar retail stores, online stores, or a combination of both.