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  • Pirch, New York City

    Upscale kitchen, bath and outdoor appliance retailer Pirch has opened its largest location to date, a three-floor, 32,000-sq.-ft. flagship in an historic, former ironworks building in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood.     

  • Target gets ‘smart’ about lighting

    Target Corp. is taking its lighting to the next level.   The retailer has entered into an agreement with Acuity Brands for Acuity to provide Target with smart lighting technologies, featuring energy saving LED fixtures and dimming controls.    Target will be installing Acuity’s next generation, smart LED sales floor fixtures, along with the lighting company’s store accent lighting and distribution center site lighting.   

  • Sears targets familiar rival with connected home products

    Struggling Sears Holdings Corp. may be aiming its new line of connected home appliances and tools directly at rival department store chain J.C. Penney.  

  • Nike exec joins Restoration Holdings board

    Restoration Hardware Holdings Inc. (RH) has appointed Hilary Krane to its board of directors, effective immediately.   Krane is the executive VP, chief administrative officer and general counsel of Nike Inc. She will also serve on the board’s audit committee. Prior to joining Nike in 2010, Krane held various roles at Levi Strauss & Co., including senior VP, general counsel and corporate affairs.  

  • eBay promotion puts customers in charge

  • Westlake Ace Hardware adds new Kansas store

    Westlake Ace Hardware has entered into a lease agreement and will be opening a new store in Overland Park, Kansas.   Lenexa, Kansas-based Westlake will take possession of the 15,500-sq.-ft. store on July 29. The store is the current location of Dobbels True Value Hardware. It will officially reopen as a Westlake Ace in fall 2016. Dobbels is currently having a going-out-of-business sale.    

  • Will this be the next big store brand from Williams Sonoma?

    A retailer that specializes in reproductions of classic lighting products and house parts is quietly expanding under the ownership of Williams-Sonoma.   

  • NRF: Consumers will remember Dad this year

    Anyone who is a dad, or sells products dads like, may be in for a happy Father’s Day.

    According to a new survey from the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insight and Analytics, consumers say they will spend more than ever on Father’s Day in 2016 (Sunday, June 19). Shoppers are expected to spend an average $125.92 for the holiday, up 9% from the prior year’s $115.57. Total spending is expected to reach $14.3 billion, the highest in the survey’s 13-year history but still below the 2016 Mother’s Day total of $21.4 billion.

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