Some assorted thoughts on the wonderful world of retailing, Target’s 1,800-person layoffs: Yeah, it’s a big number but let’s remember it’s only 8 percent of
Category: #mass merchants
Meatballs Over Manhattan
It’s not your college kids’ IKEA anymore. The giant home furnishings retailer with giant stores is bringing its act to Manhattan next year with the
Can You Say Panic Buying?
Is this the calm before the tariff storm? How else to explain the surprisingly positive retail numbers we’ve been seeing over the past few weeks.
The Fall of the Home Business
Key sectors of the home furnishings business will have important trade shows over the next few weeks but they could be particularly ugly given the
Here’s What’s Really Wrong with Target
As it waits for its next CEO, the Big Box discounter curiously has a lot in common with another very broken institution in the country:
Sleep Number, Bed Bath & Beyond Home, Best Buy and Ikea & Other Retail Musings
No shortage of strange things going on in the retail world these days…and I’m not even talking about the fact that the rumors are hot