Housewares and supermarket industry veteran Edward Spitaletta, who pioneered Clip Strip point-of-purchase merchandising, passed away this week. He was 91. Spitaletta’s career started in 1955 as a route driver for a wholesale rack jobber in Jersey City, NJ. He later...
Alan Heller, who brought affordably priced, sophisticated design to American homes for half a century, is remembered as a visionary housewares innovator and provocateur who marked a creative era. Heller died in his New York City home on August 13; he was 81....