8 Unfiltered Retail Council Answers: The Brands the Floor Is Watching, Praising, and Questioning

We missed a week. So this episode has eight questions instead of four — two weeks of Steel Cod Retail Council answers in one sitting. Shannon and Jon work through all of them. Who's actually challenging Blackstone on the outdoor griddle and whether anyone has solved both the story and the price point at the same time. Why Fisher & Paykel is surging in Canada and stagnant in the US, and what the brand is missing that SKS and Thermidor have figured out. What Jon really thought about John Howells and the ILVE conversation — and where he thinks the brand needs to fight before it starts swinging at Wolf and La Cornue. They also cover what the council confirmed about ASKO and KitchenAid (the two most underappreciated dishwashers on any floor), why SKS is the brand Jon's watching most closely going into the next couple of years despite loving the product, what the Power Index is showing on Miele cooking right now, why you should always show true luxury before affordable luxury ever enters the conversation, and the council's honest read on Electrolux — a brand with real product in it that doesn't seem to know what it is. Eight questions. No filter. New episodes every day of the week. Rate and subscribe wherever you listen.