Chuck Williams, founder of Williams-Sonoma, dies at 100

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chuck Williams, who founded the Williams-Sonoma empire and ushered in an era of aspirational culinary retailing, has died. He was 100. The retailer of high-end home goods said Williams died peacefully of natural causes Saturday at his home in San Francisco. Williams opened his first Williams-Sonoma store in Sonoma, California, in […]