Clint Engel
Hello! I'm Clint Engel senior retail editor at Furniture/Today, where I cover all things retail. I'll use this blog to offer my thoughts on both the furniture retail scene and general retail, but more importantly, as a vehicle to bring in and link to other ideas and sources of information that could prove useful to you. I hope you'll use this space to share your thoughts, too. Also feel free to contact me directly at cengel@furnituretoday.com or 336-605-1129.
Title: Senior Retail Editor
Clint's NotesLink This | Email This | Comments (2) Three things retailers should do yesterdayLet’s jump right into it, and I should note that all three things cost little more than your time. Get online if you’re not already. Industry forces have now quashed all excuses not to have a Web site. For starters, there’s FurnitureDealer.net, which earlier this year started offering furniture retailers free Web sites through its new furnoodle service. At about the same time, the National Home Fu... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) Only one change at Hudson's in FloridaI’m not absolutely sure this is true (or legal) but here’s something for our readers to chew on: Hudson’s of Sanford, Fla., has named Sampson Hudson chief financial officer. That would be owner and President Fred Hudson’s dog, and I’m getting this from the horse’s mouth. Rumors about the financial health of the Top 100 company have been circulating on and off for months, and when I asked Fred Huds... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (2) Can we learn anything from Kroger?Is there a lesson for the furniture industry in the recent gains grocery store chains are enjoying, thanks to their back-to-basics strategy? The Wall Street Journal reports that Kroger, Publix and other grocery stores are seeing added profits in the so-called center aisles — where they sell things like canned vegetables, cereal, pasta and flour — gaining back ground they previously ceded to compan... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (7) A winning Paula DeenPaula Deen’s furniture collection with Universal got a fun and funny plug on NPR’s “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me” quiz show this past Saturday. Deen was the guest contestant for a segment called “Not My Job,” in which celebrities typically are asked questions about something they’re not likely to have great interest in (Deen was asked about tofu). Throughout the segment, which you can find and listen... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (9) Costco bows out of furniture store businessIn a press release about the planned closings this summer of the two Costco Home stores in Kirkland, Wash., and Tempe, Ariz., Costco CEO Jim Sinegal said the Home stores were a “valuable experiment” and that the company “learned a great deal about home furnishings in the process.” Apparently one of those lessons was that this furniture store business is a lot harder than it looks. And it’s not as... More |
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