A Feel-Good Retail Story Everyone Needs
Need a feel-good story about brick-and-mortar housewares retailing as we head into the heart of the holiday shopping season?
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Placing Bets On The Retailers To Watch
The holiday retail predictions are in.
Living In The Past, Present & Future
David Houle is a futurist, which means it’s his job to look forward, not backward. He doesn’t have to deal…
Can Kohl’s Jump To Front Of The Line?
After being disrupted by Amazon for long enough, it seems Kohl’s hopes to get in on the disrupting.
Look To Consumers For The Answers
The September 25, 2017, issue of HomeWorld Business is paired with the 19th annual HomeWorld Forecast, our exclusive consumer survey of housewares shopping preferences and expectations.
With Tragedy Comes An Obligation To Help
I have used this space often in recent years to encourage and endorse the housewares industry’s resolve to overcome challenge after challenge in a precarious consumer and retail marketplace.
Set Your Sights Beyond Millennials
HomeWorld Business was an early adopter in identifying the unique marketing challenge and opportunity for housewares that is the Millennial generation.
Changing Channels As The Picture Gets Blurry
I’ve been privileged the past several years to help kick off the annual Chief Housewares Executive SuperSession (CHESS) by moderating a panel of industry leaders exploring some of the day’s most pressing issues.
Give Them Something To Celebrate
The HomeWorld Business team lately has received several press announcements on housewares companies celebrating anniversaries.
What Housewares Does Best Deserves An Award
The turbulence of a mainstream retailing shakeup that intensified during the first half of 2017 hasn’t stopped the housewares industry from doing what it does best… introducing products designed to improve daily living.
Separating Made In America Reality From Rhetoric
Welcome to HomeWorld’s ninth annual “Made in the U.S.A.” issue (July 3, 2017).
Where Retailing & Hospitality Converge
Some of you might know we have a sister publication, Hotel Business, covering the hospitality market.
Depending On Housewares Again
Housewares veterans like to remind everyone how the category historically has been a dependable business, prone to neither steep gains during economic booms nor steep declines during downturns.
Walmart’s Best Defense Is A Stronger Offense
In nominating HomeWorld’s 2017 Retailer of the Year (see the May 22 issue) after a shaky end to 2016 and beginning to this year for many operators, one particularly intriguing example of resilience was hard to ignore: Walmart U.S.
Renew Your License To Drive Sales
The Licensing Expo sets up shop in Las Vegas May 23-25, promising a bounty of brands, characters and entertainment properties ripe for the picking by vendors and retailers.
The Voice Of The People
This space typically is reserved for my views on the housewares business. But, this time, I’m giving someone else a voice.
Cultivating The Future Of Housewares
The recent International Home + Housewares Show provided an important showcase for the future of the housewares industry.
Rooting For Ron Johnson Again
They might not admit it now, but there were plenty of people in retailing rooting for Ron Johnson after he announced JC Penney’s plan to attract new customers with exclusive brands and experiences that wouldn’t need coupons and one-day sales as the primary bait.
Raise Your Hand For Housewares Charity
Raise your hand: How many of you were at the first Housewares Charity Foundation gala during the 1998 Housewares Show?
Look Closely For New Opportunity
Expect a busy day two at the International Home + Housewares Show.