With a few key retailers like At Home and Bed Bath & Beyond struggling, some people are starting to say the home furnishings and improvement
Can You Say Malapertness?
I did — three times — in this piece on the latest in the oh-so-sad saga of Sears and Eddie Lampert’s ongoing and frankly unbelievable
Tariff Terror
Stupid. There’s just no other word to describe the game of chicken the White House is playing with China on tariffs. American retailers are nearly
Amazon Is No Longer a Retailer
With its move to relegate what could be thousands of smaller vendors to its Marketplace format, Amazon is telling the world it is no longer
Must Have Been The Right Moves…But At The Wrong Time
With apologies to Dr. John, JCPenney’s new CEO Jill Soltou is making some smart decisions on personnel, merchandising and inventory management. But she’s just making
More Than Just Meatballs
It has relatively few U.S. stores and is generally off the radar of most competing retailers in the home furnishings space but Ikea is the