Author

Warren Shoulberg

Warren Shoulberg knows home furnishings. He has been a regular contributor to The Robin Report, Forbes.com, The Business of Home and Home Textiles Today as well as his own blog Warrensreport.com. As the former editor-in-chief for several leading business-to-business publications specializing in home furnishings retailing he has chronicled the good, the bad and the ugly of the business in a career spanning four decades.

His award winning commentaries elicit both praise and complaints. He welcomes them both equally. He has guest lectured at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and been honored by the International Furnishings and Design Association, Gift for Life and the Fashion Institute of Technology. He has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, ABC News and other media as an expert in the field.

He expects to be doing this for the duration.

The RH Factor Goes Contemporary

July 5, 2022
The rap against RH was that it was a one-trick pony, with just a single design look that wouldn’t allow it to grow beyond a ...
Read More →

Is Best Buy Unplugged?

June 28, 2022
Best Buy, under Hubert Joly’s run as CEO, defied the odds and became one of the great turnaround stories in recent retail history. Ever since ...
Read More →

Private Retailing: For Your Wallet Only

June 21, 2022
One of the more fascinating ideas in retailing that never really caught on involved supermarket checkout lines. Some clever junior executive somewhere decided that instead ...
Read More →

The Baby & Kids Business Is in Play in 2022

May 23, 2022
Attention Liam, Noah, and Oliver. And Olivia, Emma, and Charlotte. It’s going to be some year for the baby and toy business as you are ...
Read More →

The New Asian Invasion: How Miniso and Daiso Are Reinventing the Dollar Store Concept

May 8, 2022
The urban legend in the retailing business is that the precious space surrounding checkout lanes and around cash registers represent the most productive sales-per-square-inch territory ...
Read More →

Three Big Reasons Why What Worked at Target Isn\’t Working at Bed Bath & Beyond

April 24, 2022
If recent retail history has taught us anything, it’s that one-size-fits-all solutions rarely work. We’ve seen far too many cases of companies copying ideas from ...
Read More →

The “Re” in Retailing Now Stands for Repurposing

April 18, 2022
Retailers have been remerchandising their stores almost since the invention of the SKU. But reinvention to take them beyond just places where shoppers buy things ...
Read More →

Howard’s End: Why is Schultz Back for a Triple Shot at Starbucks?

April 3, 2022
We can excuse Howard Schultz if he’s feeling a little like Michael Corleone these days: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me ...
Read More →
Subscribe
Subscribe
Scroll to Top
the Daily Report

Insights + Interviews right to your inbox.

Skip to content