TheRetailTherapist's Weblog
A Conversation About & Celebration of Retail


Restoration?s Restoration?
I remember walking into a Restoration Hardware three or four years ago late in December as the holiday crunch was on. The rumours had swirled forever that they were never very productive retailers ...

Retail Life is Like a Box of Chocolates (or Gummy Worms)
I was struck by the energy, colour and panache of Dylan’s Candy Bar when I first visited them on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. I believe it is the way candy should be merchandised and sold - in a vibran...

Three Cheers for Dick?s
I have always loved browsing and shopping in sporting goods stores. As a, well, former “jock” (at least in my own mind), I would meander the aisles looking at the latest equipment and marvelling at...

Buckle Up
When I first came upon Buckle (based out of Kearney, Nebraska, of all the unlikely places), it was riding high and I needed to see what they were doing. This was almost 1 year ago and they are stil...

Kudos to Costco
I am fairly confident that the founder of “Warehouse Style Shopping” never envisaged cool ipods or flat screen LCD TV’s or even 1 carat diamonds being sold as you walk in the front door of a vast w...