• Support strengthens for state sales tax collection from online retailers

  Susan Dickenson, May 3, 2013
  It's highly likely that the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would allow states to collect sales tax from "remote" sellers (online and catalog retailers operating from another state), will become law before the year is out.  More

• Future Focused

  Jenny Heinzen York, April 5, 2013
  Well, we didn't go over the cliff, but we are sequestered, and it's too soon to tell if we'll just completely shut down. Way to go, U.S. government, for adding more than a few unneeded and unnecessary layers of instability to this fragile recovery.  More

• Peer power: What's in it for retail?

  Susan Dickenson, February 16, 2013
  AS PART OF ITS RECENTLY released "Things to Watch in 2013 Retail Report," marketing communications brand JWT discusses the growing strength of the peer-powered marketplace - a world of collaborative consumption possibilities facilitated by online connectivity and social networking.  More

• Sunnier days in the forecast

  Susan Dickenson, January 12, 2013
  If this season's flurries of retail predictions, surveys and Black Friday results are accurate, it's a pretty good time to be a home furnishings retailer.  More

• In-home pop-up store pacifies the retail 'pang'

  Susan Dickenson, January 3, 2013
  Lynni Megginson, former retailer, columnist and Home Accents Today Retail Star restokes her inner retail fire by hosting a holiday pop-up boutique at home.  More

• The need to touch, sniff and taste, before buying

  Susan Dickenson, October 5, 2012
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• Unlicensed Inspiration

  Susan Dickenson, September 24, 2012
  Home Acccents Today asked several style-savvy retailers and designers: Who's missing from the licensing arena?  What celebrity's style would translate well into a licensed line of home furnishings?  More

• Melissa Haberstroh advises retailers to plan for the unplanned

  Susan Dickenson, August 27, 2012
  On Jan. 27, Texas retailer Melissa Haberstroh was en route to Seattle, her third market that month, to buy for her three stores: Burlap Horse, opened in 2001; Melissa Jeffrey Home, opened in January of 2011; and her latest project, EnVie, opened two months earlier.  More

• Retail Ideas That Work

  Susan Dickenson, May 8, 2012
  First launched in Home Accents Today's July 2011 issue, an ongoing roundup of interesting ideas, innovations and inspirations from home furnishings retailers around the country.  More

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