Bill McLoughlin

Maybe that’s a unique look, exciting activities or a combination of sights, smells and ambience that create a lasting memory and a strong desire to relive that experience.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection plan to strengthen rulemaking around de minimis shipments could bring the U.S. one step closer to closing a loophole that has significantly disadvantaged furniture retailers.

Anyone following Macy’s latest activist investor saga should be concerned if they’re rooting for the retailer to remain a viable long-term business.

While many are looking to 2025 as the long-awaited turnaround, there are several factors that that will continue to challenge furniture retailers and manufacturers in the year ahead.

There remain several questions heading into 2025, not the least of which is the prospect of tariffs and their imposition on any number of potential furniture producing trade partners.

The insights that attendees gained from networking with colleagues and peers and were an intentional and much larger portion of this year’s content offering.

Creating a culture of innovation often has more to do with organization receptivity to change, coupled with processes that support and ...

If you weren't there, we missed you. If you were there, so glad to see you in Naples.

Furniture Today’s Leadership Conference takes place this week, and those unable to attend can still take part in celebrating the great retailers who will be recognized at this year’s event.

Whether it was a strong market or a weak one depended very much on who you spoke with and, as importantly, who they sell.

Furniture Today’s Leadership Conference this year will give the industry a true cause for celebration ...

There has been a tendency in the aftermath of the pandemic to nostalgically search for signs of “the new normal” ...

Additional cuts are expected at the Fed’s next meeting right after the election, but it remains to be seen how quickly additional reductions may follow and, ultimately, where will interest rates settle ...

If at any point consumers determine that their time is being wasted, that they can accomplish the purchase without the retailer’s assistance, the journey will continue, but the retailer’s involvement will not.

The list of venerable, multi-generational businesses that for one reason or another are unable to continue seems to grow longer each day. That’s why this issue of Furniture Today, our Annual People Issue, is one of my favorites.

For consumers shopping a furniture store, the RSA is a critical differentiator, offering knowledge, expertise and, in some cases, a confidence boost to consumers ...

There is little argument that the furniture business is a struggle right now. Interest rates remain a constraint on housing activity as well as on those big-ticket purchases ...

Since the start of April, spot container rates from the Far East to the U.S. West Coast have risen 29% and are currently 198% higher than the same period a year ago ...

If Amazon can deliver in a day, then everyone else is expected to match that or risk losing out to the e-tail giant.

Thus far in 2024, traditional tent pole events are getting extended as long as possible to pump up enthusiasm on the part of a consumer who’s feeling financially squeezed ...