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 clinte@reedbusiness.com or 336-605-1129.
Title: Senior Retail Editor
Clint's NotesLink This | Email This | Comments (5) Retailers are back in expansion modeThis week’s issue of Furniture/Today has something I haven’t seen in a long time. I’m sure there are plenty of things to insert right here (like “my byline”) but what I’m really talking about is: lots of retail expansion news. On the first few pages, there are five stories talking about hundreds of stores planned. Granted, most of it comes courtesy... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) Art pays for Louis ShanksFurniture/Today has launched a new monthly feature called “Outside the Retail Box,” aiming to highlight retail success stories in areas outside of what we may consider the key traditional furniture-store categories. The first installment in this week’s paper (Jan. 18) features Louis Shanks of Texas and the art gallery it created a few years ago in its largest Houston... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (2) Gallery to keep customer/buyers focused on product and funLast week, we reported the exciting news about Houston-based Gallery Furniture’s plan to bring a group of consumer/buyers to High Point this week to seek out new product for its floors.One question we had: What if these consumers experience reverse sticker shock when they get here? Will they blog about it? Will they ever want to pay retail again? In an e-mail, Gallery’s Gil... MoreLink 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... 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... More |
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