Home Depot Shares Fall on Uncertain Outlook
As quarantined consumers bedded their nests unabated, The Home Depot ended 2020 with a stellar fourth quarter.
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Attention PPP Borrowers: Beware a Tax Bite from Your State
The experience of a small powder coating company in Minnesota can serve as a cautionary tale for PPP recipients who thought their forgivable loans came free and clear.
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Free Yourself from Free
It is said that “free” is the most powerful word in advertising.
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Happy Birthday Electrolux!
Electrolux, or rather its forerunner, AB Lux, turned 120 last week.
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Alexis Wernsing: A Quiet Voice That Still Resonates
Alexis Wernsing was “Big Ed’s” little girl, the soft-voiced daughter of Patty and Ed Wernsing of Wernsing Appliance in Litchfield, Ill.
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Hit the Road Jack!
Whether it’s loaning money to a relative, chowing down that dish you love you even though it gives you heartburn, or dating the wrong person (sometimes again and again). We humans have a habit of repeating the same mistakes over and over again.
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Mattress Sales Soar in January: Report
Retail sales of home products exploded in January, and mattresses were no exception.
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Mega Group Guides Members to a Brand Awakening
With much of the nation gripped by severe winter weather, the last thing on our minds might be our neighbors to the frigid North.
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China Tariffs Contributed to Product Shortages: Report
A report in FurnitureToday magazine points to stiff tariffs on Chinese-manufactured goods as a contributing factor to today’s furniture and appliance backlogs.
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January Sales Explode for Furniture, Appliance and Tech Retailers
Roused by another round of stimulus checks and flickers of light at the end of the COVID tunnel, consumers loosened their wallets last month and gave dealers a January to remember.
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Retail Lessons from Love Songs: A Valentine’s Day Review
It’s not a day off from work (yet) but Valentine’s Day is that undeclared holiday that ranks in the top five in cultural importance.
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Best Buy Cutting Store-Level Staff and Hours: Report
Best Buy is trimming the ranks and cutting back the hours of its in-store Blue Shirt employees as COVID-wary customers continue their shift to online shopping.
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For Tempur Sealy, It Was a Very Good Year
Despite the trials, tribulations and component shortages of 2020, Tempur Sealy International reported record financial performance for the year and thanked its retail partners for much of its success.
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New Roles at GE, LG and Sony
Industry manufacturers have announced a series of new executive appointments as 2021 begins to unfold.
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BrandSource Welcomes Turney & Dunham Appliances
BrandSource welcomes Ohio’s Turney & Dunham Appliances to our extended family of independent dealers.
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What Goes Around, Spreads Around
Mississippi’s Miskelly Furniture recently donated its beloved carousel to the state’s Agriculture and Forestry Museum.
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Buc’s Make Tampa Proud … While Others Cry Out Loud
The Super Bowl is one of the few remaining “collective experiences” left in America. It is the one day out of the year when it is a pretty good bet most everyone you know will be doing the same thing you are at the same time.
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KBIS Kerfuffle: The Show Must Go On
A virtual version of the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) — the appliance industry’s annual coming out party — was slated to kick off yesterday, but digital snafus have kept the platform’s online exhibitor booths closed through post time today.
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Communication Breakdown
Whether your organization has two layers or 22, messages and information can get diluted, changed and revised as it filters down or bubbles up.
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The Customer ISN’T Always Right
This may be more than a little controversial but trust me, it’s not a typo. You read that headline right — the customer isn’t always right.
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