Shopper’s advocate, Jennifer Litwin, has spent more than 15 years making sense of the retail world. Since writing her two popular books, Furniture Hot Spots: The Best Furniture Stores and Websites Coast to Coast and Best Furniture Buying Tips Ever!, this Random House author has created segments for TV telling what’s hot and not in everything you buy.
Jennifer’s Background
Jennifer Litwin, an MBA graduate from the University of Chicago, has appeared on TV, nationally, on: Good Morning, America, Today Show, CBS Early Show, Inside Edition, CNN and Fox News. On the radio, Litwin has done Shop Cop-like segments on Martha Stewart, NPR and Michael Finney. In print, Litwin has contributed to Consumers Digest, Money, Smart Money, Quick & Simple, and has been in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, and a host of other national and local shows and press.
Every viewer feels scammed, ripped off these days, but doesn’t have time – doesn’t even know where to turn to get the answers, whether it be returning purchases, hassles at the big box retailers, strict bank policies, credit card rules that make no sense, buying gifts that can’t be returned or hidden charges.
Currently
Jennifer has been a frequent consumer contributor to ABC 7 Chicago, doing “The Shop Cop” segments, and is currently The Shop Cop for ABC’s Twin Cities Live. Each of Jennifer’s books, with Random House and the Lyons Press as the publishers, ranked #1 and 2 on Amazon.com in the furniture category for more than one year. Business Week magazine named Jennifer Litwin as one of the nation’s top women business entrepreneurs, asking her pick for favorite books to read. University of Chicago Graduate School of Business named Jennifer Litwin “Alumni to Know” for two years in a row, 2006 and 2007. Litwin was asked to speak to the MBA class about being The Shop Cop. Repeat appearances on Fox Good Day Shows in: Dallas, Philadelphia and New York. She has appeared several times on NBC LA and ABC’s Northwest Afternoon in Seattle. Recently, Modern Luxury’s CS magazine named Jennifer Litwin Chicago Celebrity of the Month and Real Simple magazine named Litwin one of the nation’s leading home furnishings experts in its Classics issue. USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, National Enquirer, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, US News & World Report published articles about Jennifer Litwin and her shopping savvy. Recently, Jennifer was named Celebrity Aquarius of the Month by the NY Daily News Astrologer, and Astrologer for Star magazine, Jennifer Angel.
Major Accomplishments
~ Jennifer has been a frequent consumer contributor to ABC 7 Chicago, doing the “Shop Cop” segments and is currently The Shop Cop on ABC’s Twin Cities Live.
~ Each of Jennifer’s books, with Random House and the Lyons Press as the publishers, ranked #1 and 2 on Amazon.com in the furniture category for more than one year.
~ Business Week magazine named Jennifer Litwin as one of the nation’s top women business entrepreneurs, asking her pick for favorite books to read.
~ University of Chicago Graduate School of Business named Jennifer Litwin “Alumni to Know” for two years in a row, 2006 and 2007. Litwin was asked to speak to the MBA class about being The Shop Cop.
~ Repeat appearances on Fox Good Day Shows in: Dallas, Philadelphia and New York. Also appeared several times on NBC LA and ABC’s Northwest Afternoon in Seattle.
~ Modern Luxury’s CS magazine named Jennifer Litwin Chicago Celebrity of the Month in November, 2006.
~ Real Simple magazine named Litwin one of the nation’s leading home furnishings experts in its Classics issue in circulated in 2007.
~ USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, National Enquirer, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, US News & World Report published one whole-page articles about Jennifer Litwin and her shopping talents.
~ Immediately following two successful segments on Good Morning, America and Inside Edition, where Litwin went undercover to big box retailers to show that the home furnishings industry is completely unregulated and that the tags usually incorrectly describe the materials in furniture products, each of those stores changed their labeling procedures.
~ NY Daily News (www.jenniferangel.com) named Jennifer Litwin Celebrity Aquarius of the Month in 2010.