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Warren Shoulberg

Warren Shoulberg knows home furnishings. He has been a regular contributor to The Robin Report, Forbes.com, The Business of Home and Home Textiles Today as well as his own blog Warrensreport.com. As the former editor-in-chief for several leading business-to-business publications specializing in home furnishings retailing he has chronicled the good, the bad and the ugly of the business in a career spanning four decades.

His award winning commentaries elicit both praise and complaints. He welcomes them both equally. He has guest lectured at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and been honored by the International Furnishings and Design Association, Gift for Life and the Fashion Institute of Technology. He has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, ABC News and other media as an expert in the field.

He expects to be doing this for the duration.

Neighborhood Intelligence: The Robin Report Retail Miss of the Week, 10. 10. 26

If the name doesn't ring a bell, maybe you'll recognize its former name: Bed Bath & Beyond. Not the fabled Big Box category killer that ...
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A Toy Story of Resilience

Unlike many of the “walking dead” retail brands that went out of business but have hung on in a virtual state, TRU is aggressively opening ...
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Caraway: The Robin Report Retail Miss of the Week: 10. 3. 26

At first, one might think that this DTC cookware company, being sued by two of the biggest players in the business— Groupe SEB and Meyer—for ...
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Patagonia: The Robin Report Retail Hit of the Week, 9. 26. 26

Unlike a certain President of the United States who offered a bordering-on-bribery $5,000 to anyone who voted Republican in the midterm elections, Patagonia—the iconic, admired ...
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Novig: The Robin Report Retail Miss of the Week, 9. 19. 26

Hey, we get that wherever Sydney Sweeney goes controversy follows. Companies who have used her in their marketing think they are getting good publicity when ...
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So, What Are Retailers Doing With All Those Tariff Refunds?

Billions of dollars’ worth of refunds have been issued, and America’s retailers have used
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Petco: The Robin Report Retail Miss of the Week, 9. 12. 26

Apparently, the marketing and promotion planning folks at Petco never studied their retail history about programs that went terribly wrong or they would have never ...
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J. Peterman: The Most Famous Fictional Retailer in America

The famed mail-order catalog was a better TV plotline than a retailer, and it appears to have made its last curtain call. Its real-life hero, ...
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