Jerry Epperson

To outsiders, “furniture” is just one big business, but to us who live it every day, there are maybe 50 different categories, each with different challenges.

I believe we have much more opportunity in our 20 upcoming years than we have over the past 15.

We need to have a theme to help get attention this summer from consumers who, from their actions, have apparently forgotten us.

I want to attempt to define and interpret the massive changes we have all experienced but at different speeds whether you were a manufacturer, importer, retailer or involved in logistics, services or other elements.

I have missed several markets because of health issues, but I hope to see you there at this one. Yes, you.

I just watched a “Transformer” movie! Trust me, I am not its target demographic.

Retailers are being threatened as never before by theft, violence and criminal activity.

Were you surprised at the unsolicited offer from CSC Generation to acquire Flexsteel for about $20-plus per share? I wasn’t, not really.

I just read there has been a e-coli outbreak in Michigan and Ohio with people six to 91 affected. And I have been watching the progress of the horrible sounding “monkeypox.” There are more people I know with COVID now than in the days of shutdowns, masks and six-foot distancing. Many more in fact. C…

I am so old I remember when Saturday Night Live was funny. I also remember when using standardized container sizes became accepted and then became the norm in the early 1980s.