Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

He said that New Zealand is a smaller market compared to other countries, including Australia, where Ikea has had a presence for 50 years. In terms of online shopping, New Zealand rates highly compared to many markets. But the development and popularisation of online shopping has enabled the company to reach more people.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

By Tricia McKinnon Wayfair is more than just a pretty website, the company has been able to penetrate the online home goods market in a way that few competitors including Amazon have been able to. Wayfair launched after it consolidated 250 individual websites selling home furnishings into a single brand called Wayfair.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Tech training can create a more attractive job for some employees, because it’s a marketable skill,” said Kotlyar. Kotlyar predicted that remote consultations with associates will expand beyond apparel into the electronics and home furnishings verticals.

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Storis

JANUARY 22, 2024

So, buckle up, home furnishings retailers; we’re ready to accelerate. Our survey found that furniture retailers are enthusiastic about many applications of AI led by those that will increase marketing efficiency and reduce bottom-line costs. economy is driven by consumer spending and a thriving job market.

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Mass Relators

JULY 15, 2024

of retail market share in 2024, compared with 21.6% Despite continued growth, e-commerce market share of total retail sales is expected to decelerate compared to the pre-COVID period and plateau near 35% by the middle of next decade. retail industry, which demonstrate an effort to adjust to market changes. E-commerce in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Retail Network Strategies partners with retailers to develop their property network strategies through a highly analytical approach to maximise profitability and market positioning within the network and further expand the business. I think the market has been a bit slow off the mark in recognising the benefits.

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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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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

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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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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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 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. I’m thrilled we could bring the first ‘next gen’ store to a futuristic fast-moving market such as Shanghai.

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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. It takes valuable marketing dollars to drive store traffic.

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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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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

billion in FY22, and significant investment across its biggest markets, including more than EUR 4.5 Be that online or over the phone, customers can access the same home furnishing expertise available instore, which has resulted in a 24 percent year-on-year growth in remote sales. billion, an increase of 5.7 percent on EUR 39.5

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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. In 2020, Alibaba Group was ranked third globally and first in the Asia-Pacific region in the global Infrastructure-as-a-Service market, according to Gartner.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

We target first-to-the-market tenants and have 71 in our portfolio,” said Northwood Retail President Ward Kampf in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Concept 31/M was created to provide a more agile entry process for brands that want to “test” the Georgetown market. Photo credit: EastBanc.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

of Digital Merchandising and Marketing, Nordstrom Resale is going to be a big value-driving initiative for many retailers. 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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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. In fact, research shows that with follow-up or targeted marketing, approximately 20% of originally unsold guests can become converting customers.

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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. In fact, research shows that with follow-up or targeted marketing, approximately 20% of originally unsold guests can become converting customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2020

Home furnishing sales also migrated further online during the pandemic, putting pressure on the supply chain for Resident, which sells mattresses under the Nectar Sleep, Awara Sleep, Level Sleep and DreamCloud Sleep brands as well as the Bundle brand for furniture. The company hired more than 500.

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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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VMS

JANUARY 30, 2022

The big-box home furnishings retailer made the move to expand the program in the U.S. But now, the retailing giant is evolving a more bespoke look for some of its outlets, especially those in urban markets, where available real estate tends to be smaller and pricier. Earlier that same month, the U.S. Advertisement.

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Retail Next

APRIL 1, 2021

Fulfillment. Allbirds (via Shopify), to highlight one retailer, offers pick up in store and fulfills orders via ship from store. . Can you be a home furnishings retailer without compelling 3D product visualization and customization? Zara has offered this inventory visibility to their customers for some time now. .

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 27, 2022

area residents are often frustrated by being stuck in traffic, we identified geographic areas in the market that are beyond a 30-minute drive from existing stores and where affinity to IKEA is extremely high,” said IKEA Area Manager Janet McGowan. Stores as fulfillment centres. Understanding that many L.A.-area

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

OCTOBER 22, 2020

While brick and mortar stores still play a strategic role in this market vertical, online shopping has skyrocketed, and with $294 billion expected in online home furnishing sales by 2022, retail store owners can no longer afford to miss out on the opportunity to ramp up their cross-channel game plans.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

And two categories that were down for the year we’re home furnishings and electronics which is interesting to me in a little surprising. [15:48] And then the last thing that I will tell you I still haven’t totally figured out in surprise me is if you said hey Jason based on all those trends.

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