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Color and clutter are two of the first words that come to mind at the first sight of the merchandise displays at Inside Out, a unique 875-square-foot store in Racine, [...]

A Mississippi resort town gift retailer stocks a wide range of merchandise to serve its upscale, conservative clientele. Golf, sailing and fishing are sports intimately associated with the scenic Gulf [...]

Mary Carol Garrity must like banks ... or old bank buildings, anyway. Her Nell Hill's home furnishings store in Atchison, Kan., is located in a former bank, and her just-opened [...]

If Jackie Kohler hadn't already settled on such a clever name -- Dish Is -- for her tabletop, antique furniture and decorative accessories store in Manhattan's Flatiron District, she might [...]

Now is not the time for drastic change in gift and home decor products, according to the manufacturers and vendors surveyed for our annual Trends and Forecasts report. It's an [...]

In the past few years, cautious retailers have been delaying their third and fourth quarter buying, waiting to see how the year is shaping up before committing dollars to holiday [...]

These days, just about everyone loves to bash Wal-Mart (when they're not shopping in one of its stores). According to the conventional wisdom, the mass market goliath has created a [...]

Pigs are not new to celebrity; A.A. Milne's Piglet and the Muppets' Miss Piggy having already basked (or even wallowed) in their fair shares of the limelight. Then, six years [...]

It's no secret that the collectibles industry is facing tough times. Among the reasons for its sclerotic condition are a lack of exciting product introductions; a younger generation that isn't [...]

Sarver, PA -- In an effort to better understand what retailers want from their suppliers cast stone manufacturer Kay Berry aunched its first Retailer Roundtable at the Columbus MarketPlace last [...]

Discount, 'two-or-one,' 'free-with-purchase,' and other types of coupons are time-tested promotional tools, popular with both consumers and the retailers who issue them. They help reinforce brand loyalty among existing customers [...]

Where do you think you would have to set up a shop that would generate $1,000 in annual sales per square foot? In a shopping center? A strip mall? Guess [...]

Someone recently asked us what specialty retailers are doing to succeed in the current economic climate. The truth is that everyone has their own method of survival. Continuing to serve [...]