Author: wshoulberg

What better way to end the year than with yet another chapter in the ongoing soap opera that is Sears. Spoiler alert: the end is

Forget about Wall Street, tax legislation, unemployment rates and government shutdowns. What really impacts the mood of the American shopper more than any other single

Pier 1 is sinking…fast. Yesterday, it fired its CEO, trashed his slow-moving turnaround plan, secured what could be some last-ditch financing and, most tellingly, hired

Williams Sonoma is in my opinion one of the best home furnishings retailers in the business today. It does so many things right and is

Why can’t department stores spin off specialized stores from the mothership and make them work? Saks closing its womens-only store in lower Manhattan is just

Eddie Lampert wants to buy Sears back and has bid $4.6 billion for the privilege. All kinds of theories have been raised as to why