Road Trip!

I am hitting the skies again shortly.

I expect to hit Chicago, Palantine, Tinley Park, Bensenville and a couple other new Chicagoland locations this weekend and then jet onward to Detroit (Utica) and Minneapolis as well. Heck while I am in the neighborhood I am planning on popping over to Bismark, ND and then heading back to Seattle for a big event next Thursday.

Although I rack up alot of miles I have to say that when you get the chance to see customers and store personnel interact it is one of the most satisfying parts of my job!

I will try to get ahead of the curve on blogging so that I keep folks informed about what’s happening in flooring along the way.

Some Headlines:

More Flooring Industry consolidation is happening and will happen.
More Retail pressure will cause flooring retailers to go out of business.
More Import pressure in the form of Illegal Timber protections and hardwood flooring will make for a chaotic product supply situation from Asia, Africa and South America.
More Currency pressure will make for higher prices on flooring short term – of course it also give us a great opportunity to sell more containers of floors to other countries since the dollar is so weak. (Good news Canada – you can buy alot cheaper from us (save 20-40%) than 4 years ago when it was 20-40% here in the US than Canada.)

Lots of fun always in the wide world of flooring.