Just for fun: We asked our editors about their next home purchase
Q: What’s the next thing you are planning to buy for your personal home?
Listening to a 20-something on furniture, housing and more | Jerry Epperson
I am proud of my 20-year-old granddaughter ... and we had a long conversation this weekend about her plans for graduate school and life ... and her furniture feelings.
Who is minding your store? | Sheila Long O’Mara
I have a question for mattress retailers. Who is minding your bedding floor’s merchandising strategy?
Are Barbie, Beyonce and Taylor Swift killing the furniture business? | Bill McLoughlin
There’s been ample evidence over the past two years that consumers have been reallocating discretionary spending away from their homes and toward ...
Furniture retail sales expected to rebound in Q2 2024 | Ben Haverty
While sales will continue to stall into the first half of next year, industry experts are anticipating a transformational shift ...
Let’s see how this third round of antidumping petitions plays out | Sheila Long O’Mara
The bedding category is now in its third round of antidumping actions following a July filing with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Department of Commerce.
Time for a reset? Increasingly complex challenges put premium on change management | Bill McLoughlin
Hopeful. It has replaced “cautiously optimistic” as the description of choice for business leaders trying to describe their assessment of what remains of 2023 and beyond. The recession that was predicted for the first half of the year has so far failed to materialize. However, after disappearing from news analyses and pundit predictions over the […]
What song captures your summer’s business? | Mike Root
Now that Labor Day is officially over, we can all collectively look forward to getting back to work. I wonder where the summer went, ...