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1 week ago | 
giftsanddec.com | Warren Shoulberg
Just being big is not necessarily the best strategy as we’ve recently learned in the business of retail. A rash of bankruptcies, near-bankruptcies and generally dismal performances from some of the country’s biggest retail chains has once again confirmed that size alone doesn’t guarantee success.
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1 week ago | 
businessofhome.com | Warren Shoulberg
When At Home filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, no one was shocked. The brand’s struggles were one of the worst-kept secrets in the business, as endless speculation—no doubt driven by Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal reports of the looming filing—rapidly moved the bankruptcy from possibility to probability.
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1 week ago | 
therobinreport.com | Warren Shoulberg
This is not your grandma’s Walmart anymore. Hell, it’s not even your Walmart anymore these days. With an unprecedented number of initiatives on its plate today, the world’s biggest retailer — almost twice as large as its closest competitor — is both playing catch-up and pull-out-ahead in the retail world. If you legitimately ask what took them so long, they will answer, “Yeah, we know. But retail has to stop living in the past.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessofhome.com | Warren Shoulberg
When it comes to RH, it’s complicated. In reporting its first-quarter numbers after close of market on Thursday, the luxury home furnishings retailer had some good news, some disappointing news, and some news that didn’t neatly fit into either end of the spectrum.
For the quarter, it hit a nice 12 percent increase in sales versus a year ago … but that was below a consensus analyst forecast of a 12.7 percent bump.
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2 weeks ago | 
hometextilestoday.com | Warren Shoulberg
Plano, Texas – HGTV personality and Atlanta interior designer Egypt Sherrod introduced her new Indigo Road bed, bath and window program last month with in-store appearances at two JCPenney stores in the Atlanta metro area. Last week, she continued her tour with stops at Penney stores in New Jersey and on Long Island. The program, licensed and produced by S. Lichtenberg, features a wide assortment of products in an urban casual theme, all created by Sherrod.
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2 weeks ago | 
hometextilestoday.com | Warren Shoulberg
Plano, Texas – HGTV personality and Atlanta interior designer Egypt Sherrod introduced her new Indigo Road bed, bath and window program last month with in-store appearances at two JCPenney stores in the Atlanta metro area. Last week, she continued her tour with stops at Penney stores in New Jersey and on Long Island. The program, licensed and produced by S. Lichtenberg, features a wide assortment of products in an urban casual theme, all created by Sherrod.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessofhome.com | Warren Shoulberg
On the heels of celebrating the one-year anniversary of its first large-format store, a 150,000-square-foot Chicagoland flagship, Wayfair has announced its next two physical locations, which will open in rapid succession and signal a stepped-up effort by the company to bring stores into its business model.
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3 weeks ago | 
therobinreport.com | Warren Shoulberg
First things first: Brian Cornell has been an incredible CEO at Target for most of his time leading the retail chain since he joined in 2014. People forget how lost Target was a decade ago and what Cornell did to rebuild the company and turn it into perhaps the best retailer in America for much of his stint. But that was then…and this is now.
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1 month ago | 
businessofhome.com | Warren Shoulberg
When it opened 20 years ago, HD Buttercup was one of the most innovative, creative and talked-about retailers in the home furnishings business. But in the decades since, the conversations have faded, and the store has gone through several changes in format as well as ownership and management. Soon, that talk will end completely: HD Buttercup is going out of business.
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1 month ago | 
businessofhome.com | Warren Shoulberg
With another 20 stores scheduled to join its current roster of 200 locations this year, and a continued push to cover more of the country, one has to ask: Is an IPO on the horizon for Bob’s Discount Furniture?
The furniture chain has been owned by the giant private equity firm Bain Capital since 2013, and while the company isn’t openly talking about going public, cashing out its investors through a public stock offering would seem like the next logical step.
