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Lidl Could Have Big Impact On U.S. Retailing
Music in America during the 1960s forever changed when the Beatles led a host of bands from the U.K. to the U.S. in what would forever be known as the British Invasion. Today, the supermarket segment...
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Wanting Macy’s To Be Something More
If imitation is indeed the most sincere form of flattery, then there are a few retailers that should feel good about themselves. Recently, Macy’s held its annual meeting and discussed several...
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Home Proving To Be Retail’s Shining Star
The first eight months of 2017 have been focused on the retail apocalypse (overblown), the growing impact of Amazon and the struggles of department stores. But as housewares suppliers and the retail...
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The Grocery Wars Are Getting A Bit Silly
So Walmart wants to stock my refrigerator? Really? There’s something off-putting and a bit creepy about a Walmart employee entering my home and putting away my groceries. I don’t even go into my...
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The Holiday Shopping Season Starts Early
The clock had barely ticked past midnight on November 1 and several retailers, in announcing holiday season sales, were tripping over themselves like Black Friday shoppers trying to buy a new...
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Retail Challenges Open Doors To New Opportunities
Retail in 2017 has been a mad, mad, mad, mad world. But with the madness also comes a host of opportunity for retailers and suppliers alike. It’s difficult to remember another period of time when so...
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A Back-To-Basics Wish List For Retailers
Throughout 2017 there has been much discussion about the future of retailing, with the crystal balls of some showing a future without stores and a consumer base using their digital devices to buy what...
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Keeping Pace With The Retail Evolution
Few would argue that 2017 was a strange year at retail and a time of significant change. Despite strong consumer confidence and a growing economy, there were a number of leading retailers that slogged...
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Unique Experiences At The Home + Housewares Show
HomeWorld’s Greg Sleter with Olympic Gold Medalist Matt Hamilton. The Housewares Show. Utter that phrase to anyone who worked the annual event held recently in Chicago and it will conjure up a...
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The Amazon Effect On Shipping Products
If there are two topics of discussion many in the housewares segment are tired of talking about, Amazon and Millennials may top the list for most. While we’ll leave Millennials alone, for now, Amazon...
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The Lost Art Of Conversation
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had several discussions with my friends on the PR side of the world regarding what feels like a decrease in marketing efforts across the housewares industry. It was...
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For Retailers Stores Remain In The Fore
Summer 2018 is now in the rearview mirror and the holiday season is on the horizon. And despite predictions to the contrary just a couple of years back, most consumers will be shopping for their...
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Target Scores With Latest Store Remodel Effort
If you haven’t gone shopping recently, do so. Shopping at a store, that is. Several retailers are investing in their stores and rolling out major remodel programs in an effort to make new what is old...
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Kohl’s/WW Partnership Another Sign Of Store Relevance
In recent years, we have discussed the need for retailers to rethink how each uses their physical space to keep their brick-and-mortar stores relevant as digital commerce continues to grow. The latest...
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The True Value Of Trade Shows
As an industry, we’ve long discussed trade shows, especially when we’re at, well, a trade show. We have discussed their pros and cons, the continual challenges of traveling to and from our home bases...
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Bed Bath’s Store Remodels The Latest In A Growing Trend
The cover story of HomeWorld’s March 1 International Home + Housewares Show issue focused on the on-going importance of stores. Written by my colleague Mike Duff, the story was the first in a...
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Inspire Consumers By Taking A New Approach To Merchandising
So, what’s new? For the sake of this column, the question is posed rhetorically. (But if you do want to answer, feel free to e-mail me: gregs@homeworldbusiness.com) The long history of the housewares...
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The Art Of Promotion
One of the enjoyable aspects of my job is the opportunity to write about the constant flow of new products and the ever-changing retail marketplace. During the early part of the summer, I spent time...
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Stay Focused To Find New Opportunities
As 2019 has taken a turn into the home stretch, retailers will be focused on squeezing every dollar out of the holiday season whose start seems to inch closer and closer to Labor Day each year. But...
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Fixing Bed Bath & Beyond’s Stores Should Top Tritton’s To-Do List
Another chapter in the ongoing Bed Bath & Beyond saga of reinvention has been written with the hiring of former Target executive Mark. J. Tritton as the home specialty store’s new president/CEO....
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