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December 26, 2025

Retail’s biggest winners and losers in 2025

Warren Shoulberg examines the retail landscape of the past year to see who came out on top—and who didn’t.

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December 18, 2025

Why are department stores still selling furniture on-site?

Furniture sales are lagging at big department stores. How much longer before they disappear from selling floors altogether?

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December 11, 2025

Amid a stock slump, RH posts revenue gains and teases a new look

The company beat revenue expectations in the third quarter, but saw its margins dragged down by tariffs.

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December 4, 2025

The Bed Bath & Beyond saga continues

The last thing the retail chain’s leader Marcus Lemonis wanted was stores. Now he has 300 of them.

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November 25, 2025

Black Friday may set records. Home retailers want in

’Tis the season for holiday deals, even if they can’t fit under the Christmas tree. Home furnishings retailers are trying to cash in on the spending season despite typically being unaffected by holiday shopping sprees.

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November 20, 2025

Home Depot and Lowe’s predict a rough quarter ahead

Consumer sentiments on the economy are stymying the home improvement giants’ numbers once again.

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November 13, 2025

Why a $1 trillion holiday spending spree may not help home retailers

It looks like 2025 may well repeat many of the same conditions of last year’s holiday shopping season: Consumers will spend, but home investments are at the bottom of their wish list.

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November 6, 2025

Walmart and Nordstrom use catalogs to target the home category

Two major lifestyle retailers at different ends of the budget spectrum dropped home-centric catalogs ahead of the holiday season.

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October 30, 2025

Retail earnings reveal surprise winners and losers

Among new quarterly financial results, Wayfair and Havertys saw positive news, while Ethan Allen and Bed Bath & Beyond’s numbers were more disappointing.

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October 23, 2025

High Point Market arrives amid fresh tariff chaos

Warren Shoulberg unpacks the state of play—new tariffs, more uncertainty, higher prices—as the industry heads to North Carolina.

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