Empire Today has been around as a shop-from-home flooring installation business for 55 years, spending 40 of those years getting its phone number jingle stuck in everyone’s heads. But until now, there were no physical stores for shoppers to visit and pick out flooring. After all that time priming potential customers with “588-2300, Empiiiire!” the company says it’s finally ready to open its first bricks-and-mortar stores. [More]