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Celebrity Sweepstakes

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

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?

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

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

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

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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A TreeHouse Grows in Dallas

Imagine if Home Depot and Whole Foods decided to open a store together…and got Deepak Chopra to run it. What you’d have is something not ...
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It’s a Store, It’s a Restaurant, It’s…Eataly

A friend wanted to recreate a delicious pasta dish we had in Sicily last spring. It was a strozzapreti—“strangled priest” or “priest strangler,” an elongated ...
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