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Thomas Lester

Greensboro

Digital Managing Editor at Home Accents Today

Retail Editor at Furniture Today

Retail Editor at Casual Living

Retail Editor, @FurnitureToday; @emoryandhenry alum, left-handed, #pun artist, decent #bassist, learning guitar, #RetailRecon. Be kind always, no matter.

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  • 1 week ago | hometextilestoday.com | Thomas Lester

    Plano, Texas — A report from Bloomberg says At Home Group is preparing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The report, which cites unidentified people with knowledge of the matter, notes that the  home décor specialist, owned by Hellman & Friedman, missed an interest payment on May 15 and entered a forbearance agreement with lenders on May 23.

  • 1 week ago | furnituretoday.com | Thomas Lester

    PLANO, Texas — A report from Bloomberg says Top 100 retailer At Home Group is preparing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The report, which cites unidentified people with knowledge of the matter, notes that the Plano, Texas-based home décor specialist, owned by Hellman & Friedman, missed an interest payment on May 15 and entered a forbearance agreement with lenders on May 23.

  • 1 week ago | furnituretoday.com | Thomas Lester

    SANFORD, Fla. — Top 100 retailer Hudson’s Furniture‘s Memorial Day sale continued a solid run of business this year. “I think it’s interesting that most of the people and businesses we know, furniture and non-furniture, are having a successful year in spite of all the noise you hear,” CEO Josh Hudson told Furniture Today.

  • 1 week ago | furnituretoday.com | Thomas Lester

    ROANOKE, Va. — Top 100 retailer Grand Home Furnishings kicked off its Memorial Day promotions at the beginning of the month, with doorbusters and deals throughout. But even then, it saved some of its biggest salvos for the holiday weekend itself. So how did things rate? “Everybody reported strong traffic, strong sales,” Mike Virok, vice president of marketing for the Roanoke, Va.-based retailer, told Furniture Today.

  • 1 week ago | furnituretoday.com | Thomas Lester

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. —  For its first Memorial Day weekend with a stronger furniture assortment, things couldn’t have gone much better for Queen City Homestore. “It was a good holiday. It was a robust event,” David Horvath, category manager, furniture division, told Furniture Today.

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