On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 10:34:54 -0600, graham > wrote:

>On 2020-07-09 10:11 a.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 7/9/2020 11:31 AM, graham wrote:
>>> "Sur la table" has just filed. Could Williams-Sonoma be far behind?
>>
>> Could be.* This does not seem to be the time to sell high end kitchen
>> wares.* Few people heading to the mall these days.
>
>Except that more people have been cooking and baking at home and
>discovering the joys of it. SLT's mail order side has been doing well
>from that but the closures hit the outlets badly.

Williams-Sonoma does far more catalog sales than walk-ins... they also
sell much better quality than Sur la table. With this virus thing a
lot more people are cooking/eating at home.
Another business that's been booming is vegetable gardening. Driving
around I see a lot more new vegetable gardens. Vegetable seeds sold
out early this year.