As long as we are talking gloom — yucky weather, stock market plunge, no jumbo money, piddly 1/4 point out of Bernacke — a favorite reader has pointed out that designers are hurting, too, from all the Real Estate woes. Designers like Bombay Co. and Levitz. Gosh. My heart bleeds.
Bombay (and Pier1) have been hurting for awhile so not surprising there. Levitz? is that what, furniture?