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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.

Walmart, Ace & Ikea Want to Fix Your Home…Not Just Sell You the Stuff to Do So

Back in the day when Sears Roebuck was the biggest retailer in the world, they would sell you everything, from underwear and lawn mowers to ...
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Is This the Beginning of the End for Retail Salespeople?

Forget about factory worker, coal miner and taxi driver jobs being in jeopardy. They are nothing compared to the emerging threat to the jobs of ...
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The Supply Chain Remains Broken in ‘22

Predictions about the end of worldwide pandemic conditions – and their impact on global supply chain logistics – have been ridiculously wrong. Every time “the ...
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Hubert Joly: The Unlikely Retailer

Who is the executive who fixed a retailer that just about everybody thought was unfixable? One who quotes both The Godfather and Camus with equal ...
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Grocery Goes General Merchandise

The deep discount grocery store model pioneered by the twin German retailers Aldi and Lidl is arguably the only all-new physical store format to come ...
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The Joe Behind Trader Joe’s

In the entire world of retailing perhaps there is no single operation that breaks more rules, defies more standard practices and is so successful as ...
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Auto Checkout: Oops, They Let Amazon Do It Again

You would think they would have learned their lesson. After giving Amazon a 10-year (really closer to 15 when you come right down to it) ...
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A Dream Swamped in New Jersey

They say if you build it, they will come. But they never said you had to finish building it first to get them to show ...
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