Bill McLoughlin

The announcement last week that Macy’s would close 150 underperforming stores as part of a strategic realignment is the latest indication ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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