While many of our furniture retail members are busy with the first quarter “tax time bounce,” there are concerns in our industry about what the second quarter and the rest of 2020 will look like for the furniture supply chain as a result of the coronavirus outbreak in China.
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No matter your business model, your marketing savvy or your dealer smarts, retail is more difficult now than it was five years ago – which was radically different than five years before that!
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February is typically a big mattress month due to Presidents Day, but the more celebrated occasion is, of course, Valentine’s Day.
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As I was doing my Super Bowl KP duty, I thought back to the time when cleaning pots and pans meant scouring them with steel wool pads.
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Over the Top, or OTT, is a reference to how web-based video is delivered — without a set-top box. Streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Roku, Vudu and others now deliver video content into a majority of the homes in the U.S.
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Let’s face it: the thought of assembling an employee handbook can be daunting, confusing and time-consuming. What should it include? Why do you even need one?
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Before TRIB Group’s rent-to-own (RTO) members head out to our spring show in Atlanta next month, it’s worth recapping a highlight of our last gathering.
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Articles about the national debt are usually very controversial, and I expect this one will be no less contentious.
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As specialty retailers fight for survival in an online world, many have turned to an old strategy: reducing expenditures on employees.
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Whether you browse the headlines of Weekly World News or cast a glance at the National Enquirer at the supermarket checkout, you may have seen these outlets touting bold revelations for 2020.
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