Housing Crisis has affected Home Fashion Retail

I believe that the housing crisis has really affectef the home fashion retail. There has been many stories in the news about how homes are getting foreclosed..because do not have the money to pay for their homes. Many have stated this came about from the banks giving loans to people who could not afford the homes. Real estate agents are having a tough time trying to get people to buy homes. When one is selling house the furniture inside the home is a must..this is why many real estate agents have a open house there is furniture insiside the home.

Since there has been a decline in the homes..because we are in recession..our local home fashion and retail stores have been down. Some big names in the home fashion and retail are Bed Bath and Beyond, Sears, and Michaels. These stores have decline because the economy is bad and people do not have the extra money to go out and by extra house hold designs. The prices if many of the in home designs are exspensive.

The only time that I can really recall when these companies do well is when its time to go back to school and holidays. The times are usually called the seasonal. Without these times of the year these companies would not make it in my opinion. I see these companies making a come back was the economy gets better...

Guest Speaker

The guest speaker that came to our class was Elyse Mullis she attended here at UNCG with her major being English and the minor being consumer retail. I thought she was a really great speaker..She told us how she was a intern at the greensboro Coliseum but she did not ge the job that she wanted and it was also unpaid. She spent most of her time making coffee and doing other small task that had nothing to do with the job.

The intern that she wa at gave her some experince to the real world..Everything is not easy and then she went on to talk about how a college room mates father put her resumes out there and then he ended up getting a phone call from this company named Westminister fabrics...which of course works with fabrics, threads etc. At first response she may have been unsure but at the same time she had taken the job anyway.

Next she went on to explain the company and what it was all about. There are over twenty designers and they send their drawings, paintings and sketchings. in the process of her job descriptions she also has to do work blogs similiar to the blogs that we do in our class. I thought it was pretty cool how she still had her blogs from this class.

Elyse also told us about the trip that she got to take to Houston, Texas...pretty cool. In Texas there was a quilt market. She also showed us som great pics that she had taken while she was there. Then there is the international quilt market were there are reps and designers in booths. there were a kot of pretty colors in the boths. Overall I think that the speaker was pretty cool I really enjoyed it.