Risks and Uncertainties - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($)	12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017	Mar. 31, 2016
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Allowance for doubtful accounts	$ 4,000	$ 9,000
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash balances in excess of FDIC-insured limits	27,000,000	30,100,000
Maximum
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Cash and restricted cash deposit	$ 250,000	$ 250,000
Customer Concentration Risk \| Net Revenues
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	83.00%	81.00%
Customer Concentration Risk \| Net Revenues \| Target
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage		42.00%
Customer Concentration Risk \| Net Revenues \| Fred Meyer
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	17.00%
Customer Concentration Risk \| Net Revenues \| Walmart
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	53.00%	31.00%
Customer Concentration Risk \| Net Revenues \| Funai
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	13.00%	8.00%
Product Concentration Risk \| Net Revenues
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	82.00%	93.00%
Product Concentration Risk \| Net Revenues \| Microwave Ovens
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	71.00%	56.00%
Product Concentration Risk \| Net Revenues \| Compact Refrigerators
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	11.00%	37.00%
Credit Concentration Risk \| Trade Accounts Receivable, Net of Specific Reserves \| Target
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage		0.00%
Credit Concentration Risk \| Trade Accounts Receivable, Net of Specific Reserves \| Fred Meyer
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	0.00%
Credit Concentration Risk \| Trade Accounts Receivable, Net of Specific Reserves \| Walmart
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	91.00%	88.00%
Supplier Concentration Risk [Member] \| Products for Resale \| Three Largest Factory Suppliers
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	98.00%	98.00%
Supplier Concentration Risk [Member] \| Products for Resale \| One of the Three Largest Factory Suppliers
Unusual Risk Or Uncertainty [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	75.00%	53.00%

Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents.

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- Definition

A valuation allowance for trade and other receivables due to an Entity within one year (or the normal operating cycle, whichever is longer) that are expected to be uncollectible.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-Paragraph 4
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The amount of cash deposited in financial institutions as of the balance sheet date that is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

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- Definition

For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 275
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 18
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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