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  • Readers Respond: Internet taxes

    Internet retailers don’t have to collect taxes in states where they don’t have a physical presence. The NRF says that’s not fair. Here’s what some of our readers said:

  • Real versus surreal

    While attending a meeting with the Home Improvement Research Institute, a Home Channel News editor made a side trip to another important South Florida institution that could help us all better understand our industry.


    This institution is called The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg. (Note to accounting: The $10 admission ticket and $3 parking are now officially “business related.”) And it does so by preparing us for the surreal in our world.


  • Houzz logs a blip in otherwise confident renovation sector

    Readings for the third quarter are dragging behind Q2.

  • Container traffic remains flat

    Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is staying at about the same levels this summer as last year, although traffic is expected to pick up this fall, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Hackett Associates.

  • A deep dive into the generation gap

    Adult millennials are "in bloom," according to researchers.

  • Readers respond to debit card swipe fees

    Are banks and credit card companies charging too much for debit transactions? Here's what we heard:

  • 3M purchases composite maker

    Building products giant 3M has agreed to purchase Nida-Core Corp., a Florida manufacturer that makes composite building materials, according to an article in the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal. 

  • Research points to opportunities in outdoor entertaining

    More than 75% of home entertainers prefer the more laidback approach and spacious feeling they get from entertaining in the great outdoors, according to Outdoor Entertaining Trends 2010: Consumers Bring the Indoors Out, a report from Port Washington, N.Y.-based NPD Group.

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