Articles on
Experience
CB2 Grows Up
Warren Shoulberg
December 5, 2017
It’s taken a little longer than probably most people expected, but it appears that CB2 is finally entering puberty.The little kid sister to Crate & ...
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Home on 59th Street
Warren Shoulberg
November 28, 2017
Bloomingdale’s is in the midst of a full-blown, gut-job renovation and remodeling of its New York flagship store home floors…and not a minute too soon. ...
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Celebrity Sweepstakes
Warren Shoulberg
November 7, 2017
So, millennials only want authenticity, they want a genuine backstory from real people and will not be swayed by celebrity endorsements, phony brands and glitzy ...
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Finding Opportunity in the Post-Aspirational Kitchen
David Portalatin
October 17, 2017
Consumers rarely stay in the same frame of mind for long, and they often change in surprising, unexpected ways. So while the pre-recession shopper might ...
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Housing and Home Improvement: Intertwined or Diverging?
Judith Russell
October 11, 2017
The U.S. housing market, which has been undergoing a relatively steady recovery since the Great Recession, seems to be hitting a speed bump. However, that ...
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An Anthropology Study
Warren Shoulberg
August 29, 2017
Anthropology is the study of how human societies interact. Anthropologie is a case study of how certain human societies shop for home products. What a ...
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Slicing and Dyson
Warren Shoulberg
August 8, 2017
OK, here’s today’s retail quiz: How many companies that make household appliances have opened up their own stores on one of the most expensive retail ...
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Ships of Fools
Warren Shoulberg
July 18, 2017
The home furnishings industry, if you’ll excuse the expression, is scared silly. Virtually every product that you plug in, sleep on, dry yourself off with, ...
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