We’ve heard from a number of patio and hearth retailers over the past few years that, while tickets are up, traffic is down. Not a good sign, but no one ever said that driving traffic was easy, or inexpensive.
Hearth & Home interviewed 48 specialty retailers of hearth, patio and barbecue products throughout the U.S. to determine how well they fared in 2017. For some it was a great year, for some it was a bad year, and for most it was an acceptable year.
In early November Hearth & Home faxed a survey to 2,500 specialty retailers of hearth, barbecue and patio products, asking them to compare October 2017 sales to October 2016. The accompanying charts and selected comments are from the 214 useable returns.
Thirty miles from Phoenix, north on the 101, you will find Taliesin West, previously the winter home of Frank Lloyd Wright, who died in 1959, and now home to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the School of Architecture at Taliesin.
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