Warren Shoulberg

Williams-Sonoma didn't disappoint. The home furnishings retailer was one of the last to feel the impact of the sector's slowdown over the

Nearly eight months after opening its first large-scale store , Wayfair is finally providing some information on how it's performing.

It may be the most misunderstood retail brand out there – is it Bealls, Bealls Outlet, Bealls Florida – not to mention the most-mispronounced. (It’s like a bell, not a beall…whatever that is.)

As we gear up for 2025, it seems like the right time to lay out a few topics and themes to get the conversation started.

There may still be another shoe or two to drop in 2024 before that Times Square ball does the same, but it won't change much: This has been a rough year to sell home furnishings.

My oh my. Where has the time gone? Hard to believe we are at the end of yet another year – harder still to believe we made it through this one, right? So that means it’s all about the annual bestowing of holiday giftables upon those in the industry who are truly needy of recognition.

RH chairman, CEO and impresario-in-chief Gary Friedman was in a buoyant mood on the company's earnings call last week—and for good reason.

They say most industries are a zero-sum game where the winners balance out the losers. That was hardly the case for the home furnishings retail business thi...

I didn’t learn much when I studied journalism, but they did teach you that if you wrote a regular column you were required to do a NewYear Preview piece every January. This was not optional and if you knew what was good for you, you went along with the program.

It's a New Year's miracle: Big Lots will live to fight another day.