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Along the Wayfair Way

The big online home furnishings retailer reported better numbers — actually less bad numbers — last week as it gets set to open its first

It was a tale of two trade shows this week as two of the biggest segments of the home furnishings business got together to engage

It was originally supposed to be open by now but Wayfair says, not to worry, it is still opening its first big Flagship store…it’s just

Call it Rexit — Retail Exit — if you’d like, but whatever the name, it’s a serious problem for urban retailing as so many stores

The housewares industry returned to Chicago for its first true show in four years and while it wasn’t quite back up to pre-pandemic levels, it