We may have found our winner in the most Stupid Business sweepstakes: the Trump Trade Wars. Nobody is denying that U.S.-China trade needs to be
With 6 You Get Failure…
Nice piece from the usually excellent retail e-letter Retail Dive on 6 of the biggest blunders in the history of retailing. How many can you
Dirty Little Secrets
The furniture industry does lots of things right — lots of things wrong too — but what it can’t seem to get right is translating
Second Acts? Maybe
Will this be a San Francisco treat? The number of retailers, once presumed dead, but resurrected, recreated and otherwise returning to the marketplace continues to
Oh, Eddie…
It’s taken a long time, but I’ve finally changed my mind about Eddie Lampert. No, not that he’s been terrible for Sears and has destroyed
Latte & Lumber
The news that a giant Starbucks will open in the Chicago space that was formerly the defacto flagship of home furnishings retailer Crate & Barrel