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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.

Can Tom Kingsbury Really Fix Kohl’s?

It may be hard to believe, but Kohl’s was once the darling of the retail world, expanding at a frantic pace to go national while ...
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The Boomers Aren’t Quite Done…Well, Booming

I am of course not exactly objective about this topic, but when a major new research report confirms it, that’s a big deal. Baby boomers, ...
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Why Banana Republic, Boll & Branch and Others May Have Picked the Wrong Time to Get into Furniture

During the pandemic, American consumers bought furniture like they didn’t have a stick of the stuff in their homes. Ever since, not so much. Among ...
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Grand Theft Retail? Maybe…Maybe Not

It’s the retail crisis du jour: Crime.  Specifically, in-store theft and robberies are what the industry still refers to as shrinkage. Theft seems to be ...
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Are Major Drug Chains Losing It to Walmart?

For years, the big national drug chains led by the biggest of the big – Walgreens, CVS and the now bankrupt Rite-Aid – have been ...
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New York Not Exactly Going to Pot

New York State legalized the sale of recreational marijuana in April 2021. But now, nearly 30 months later, anyone trying to buy legal pot in ...
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Going Local Requires More than a Strategy

As retail chains have gotten ever larger – stretching into the hundreds, thousands and even tens of thousands of units – management at the country’s ...
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Aldi: The Little Store That Could

When it opened its first American store in March of 1976, both shoppers and the grocery industry, in general, must have been a bit befuddled ...
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