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Omni Talk Retail

Making Space – Real Time: A Bed Bath Mash-Up, Dick’s House of Sport & A “Back to Starbucks” Review

Oct 30, 2026 · 52m

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What happens when three home brands share one roof? On Episode 3 of Making Space Real Time, Chris Niesen is joined again by Omni Talk’s Chris Walton to talk through three retail stories they saw for themselves on the store floor. 🏠 The Container Store x Bed Bath & Beyond x Kirkland’s The first co-branded “everything home” stores promise room-based solutions and a big jump in sales per square foot, from $220 to $500. But four months after a “June conversion,” the store we visited still had hundreds of boxes of freight on the sales floor, an Elfa closet space with almost nothing merchandised in it, and very little sign of Kirkland’s. Is there real potential here, or is it a square peg in a…