Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2024

For us, growth in online sales driven by the Covid-19 pandemic has led us to transform service formats and customer meeting points, reimagine stores as fulfilment centres, and evolve our customer service centre for customers to shop with us remotely.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2022

Home furnishings retailer Wayfair will be part of a six-week autonomous delivery pilot this July and August along the I-45 corridor between Houston and Dallas. Hunt Transport Services will deploy the Waymo Driver solution, and will use J.B. Hunt 360 technology to automate processes such as check calls and transactions.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

decline, furniture and home furnishings stores reported a 2.6% The decline occurred despite muted inflation of just 0.1% , according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI). Certain areas were hit harder than others. Department stores saw a 2.9% decrease and building materials and garden centers fell 2.5%.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Kotlyar predicted that remote consultations with associates will expand beyond apparel into the electronics and home furnishings verticals. Tech knowledge also will be increasingly essential as retailers learn whether remote solutions deployed during the pandemic might have “legs.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

By 2032, digital will be the most important area of their business, and sectors that today have remained relatively untouched — motor vehicles and parts, convenience stores, furniture/home furnishing stores, building material, and more — will have reinvented their digital posture and orientation.

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Storis

JANUARY 22, 2024

So, buckle up, home furnishings retailers; we’re ready to accelerate. The State of the Home Furnishings Industry With abundant opportunity, let’s explore how market and consumer behavior position retailers for success. These positive indicators can support a successful year for home furnishings retail.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

But he believes current financial pressures, as well as Covid-19 restrictions, have highlighted the importance of a comfortable and functional home and led to increased demand for home furnishings, interior design and products that make life at home “a better place to be.”

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If you are curious about how Wayfair came to dominate the online home goods market here are seven facts about Wayfair’s strategy you should consider including the challenges it faces as an eCommerce business. Wayfair launched after it consolidated 250 individual websites selling home furnishings into a single brand called Wayfair.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2023

For over 50 years, Bouclair has been committed to offering our customers not only stylish and affordable home furnishings, but also a personalized and enjoyable shopping experience,” said Peter Goldberg, President and CEO of Bouclair in a statement. “As

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Storis

DECEMBER 5, 2022

One of the challenges home furnishings retailers are facing today is having excess inventory due to prolonged supply chain delays. As a retailer, you want to ensure you have enough inventory to fulfill your customers’ orders but not too much that you have a hard time selling it.

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Storis

DECEMBER 5, 2022

One of the challenges home furnishings retailers are facing today is having excess inventory due to prolonged supply chain delays. As a retailer, you want to ensure you have enough inventory to fulfill your customers’ orders but not too much that you have a hard time selling it. Speak to a Home Furnishings Retail Expert.

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Storis

MAY 1, 2024

Even if you are a home furnishings retailer that converts most of your revenue in your physical stores, your website plays a critical role in driving store traffic. Communicate regularly on when an item is getting ready for delivery and other key milestones leading up to fulfillment.

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Storis

JUNE 5, 2022

How can your home furnishings website help you get there? Research Home Furnishings Online, Buy Offline The most prevalent consumer shopping behavior is to research online before ultimately purchasing in a showroom. Therefore a primary goal of your website is to drive educated shoppers into your home furnishings store.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The home furnishing and accent retailer, which operates 20 showrooms and 13 Ashley Home Store showroom licenses in Florida, partnered with cloud commerce provider Kibo , which offered a flexible ecommerce technology that would allow CITY Furniture to develop and support highly customized customer journeys and a fluid shopping-cart experience. “The

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Mass Relators

JULY 15, 2024

Several product categories have already reached that level, including toy and hobby, office supply, consumer electronics, books and magazines, music and videos, computer hardware and software, home furnishings, and sporting goods. “E-commerce E-commerce in the U.S. The report also highlights several trends to watch in the U.S.

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Storis

APRIL 19, 2024

Retail leaders can take advantage of Webhooks to accelerate automation in their home furnishings retail operations and build scalable data-driven workflows. For example, if the trigger event is a new order being placed on a website , a Webhook could send an alert to the order management system to kick off fulfillment.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 18, 2021

“People have higher expectations for home, and a greater desire to belong in the community and social life,” says Anna Pawlak-Kuliga, Country Retail Manager and Chief Sustainability Officer for China. The essence of retail is to serve people. Open meeting places are designed to encourage interaction and community.

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Storis

APRIL 8, 2024

Retail leaders can take advantage of Webhooks to accelerate automation in their home furnishings retail operations and build scalable data-driven workflows. For example, if the trigger event is a new order being placed on a website, a Webhook could send an alert to the order management system to kick off fulfillment.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Take click-and-collect, for example, where many retailers are now trying to fulfil online orders from existing stores, offering convenience to shoppers and potentially bringing more consumers into shopping malls or high street retail strips. “I I think the market has been a bit slow off the mark in recognising the benefits.

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Storis

APRIL 14, 2023

Sales associates are at the forefront of your business, representing your brand to customers; therefore, having a dedicated and knowledgeable team is crucial to every home furnishings retailer. Can varying fulfillment options get my customer their products faster? How do other items on this order impact the overall availability?

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Storis

APRIL 14, 2023

Sales associates are at the forefront of your business, representing your brand to customers; therefore, having a dedicated and knowledgeable team is crucial to every home furnishings retailer. Can varying fulfillment options get my customer their product faster? How do other items on this order impact the overall availability?

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365 Retail

AUGUST 12, 2021

We will use the Fenny Lock site to fulfil customer orders for fashion, small home furnishing items and technology products.”. “We We will use the Fenny Lock site to fulfil customer orders for fashion, small home furnishing items and technology products.”.

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Storis

JULY 12, 2022

As we continue STORIS NextGen’s evolution, we share the Top 5 Areas of ROI your peers have found through our web-based, mobile solution for home furnishings retail. But the vast majority of those guests ultimately need to fulfill their shopping needs. With STORIS NextGen, increase the likelihood guests will buy from you.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2023

Obviously, retailers can generally recapture more value from returned items when they can charge more for them — either by negotiating better deals with clearance partners (such as TJ Maxx for apparel and Overstock.com for home furnishings) or setting up their own clearance outlets.

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Storis

APRIL 18, 2024

The fantastic news is that the home furnishings industry has a leading solution that delivers these exact capabilities with real-time precision. These calculations automatically tabulate precise and achievable fulfillment dates for your customer’s orders. Ambiguity just won’t cut it for today’s buyer.

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Storis

APRIL 16, 2024

The fantastic news is that the home furnishings industry has a leading solution that delivers these exact capabilities with real-time precision. These calculations automatically tabulate precise and achievable fulfillment dates for your customer’s orders. Ambiguity just won’t cut it for today’s buyer.

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Storis

APRIL 12, 2024

The fantastic news is that the home furnishings industry has a leading solution that delivers these exact capabilities with real-time precision. These calculations automatically tabulate precise and achievable fulfillment dates for your customer’s orders. Ambiguity just won’t cut it for today’s buyer.

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A1 Retail

JULY 23, 2024

Jakob Bertilsson, Country Customer Fulfilment Manager, IKEA UK, said: The opening of our one-hundredth mobile pick-up point marks an exciting moment for our journey to become more accessible. Following the opening of the 100 th pick-up point, IKEA plans to open an additional 100 pick-up points, with half of them due to open this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The home furnishing and accent retailer, which operates 20 showrooms and 13 Ashley Home Store showroom licenses in Florida, partnered with cloud commerce provider Kibo , which offered a flexible ecommerce technology that would allow CITY Furniture to develop and support highly customized customer journeys and a fluid shopping-cart experience. “The

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A1 Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Enabling faster and more sustainable home deliveries to customers in London and the southeast, the new centre is operated by 100 percent renewable energy and operates a fleet of electric vehicles to fulfil orders, driving a significant reduction in CO2 emissions. The post IKEA UK announces sales growth of 11.9

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

Additionally, it’s an important piece of our efforts to meet our 2030 sustainability targets.” — Seana Strawn, Head of Retail Design and Home Furnishing Identity, IKEA U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2021

Overall, online physical goods GMV grew 21% YoY in fiscal year 2021, driven primarily by the FMCG [ fast moving consumer goods ] and home furnishings categories. We will continue to focus on customer experience and value creation through innovation, as we pursue our mission to make it easy to do business anywhere in the digital era.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

On a micro level, we try to complement apparel with intimates, we have a very strong exposure to home furnishing in our Cady’s Alley design district, plus entertainment, health and beauty, and we would like to expand on unique food and beverage tenants that define the character of our district.”

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Storis

AUGUST 8, 2018

Even if you are a home furnishings retailer that converts most of your revenue in your physical stores, your website plays a critical role in driving store traffic. Communicate regularly on when an item is getting ready for delivery and other key milestones leading up to fulfillment. Powerful Conversion Tools. Request a Demo.

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Storis

MARCH 21, 2023

Written for the Home Furnishings Association’s Educational Series In a world before showroom technology , it was inefficient to track non-purchasing guests. STORIS provides modern retail software solutions to home furnishings retailers. Often the efforts spent on these guests went out the showroom doors with them.

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Storis

MARCH 21, 2023

Written for the Home Furnishings Association’s Educational Series In a world before showroom technology , it was inefficient to track non-purchasing guests. STORIS provides modern retail software solutions to home furnishings retailers. Often the efforts spent on these guests went out the showroom doors with them.

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

IKEA UK’s first small store, with a focus on home furnishing accessories and access to the total IKEA offer, opened its doors on Hammersmith’s King Street yesterday. New services, delivery and fulfilment capabilities enabling faster and more sustainable customer deliveries will follow.

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