Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

decline, furniture and home furnishings stores reported a 2.6% Nearly 44% of survey respondents indicated they planned to hire more staff to handle returns during the holiday season, and 71% of these retailers intend to add staff specifically for stores. Certain areas were hit harder than others. Department stores saw a 2.9%

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2021

According to data from BDO , 51% of retailers are planning to implement training to upskill employees’ technology capabilities, said Natalie Kotlyar, BDO’s National Leader for the Retail and Consumer Products Industry Group in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Storis

JANUARY 22, 2024

So, buckle up, home furnishings retailers; we’re ready to accelerate. More than 50% of those surveyed plan or use Generative AI for designing digital ads, writing content, and personalizing marketing. How is your business currently leveraging or planning to leverage AI? These generations have an affinity for technology.

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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.

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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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Using this strategic plan, the company leads the landlord engagement and lease negotiation process to deliver the strategic objectives of the business – whether that be repositioning the network, closing or relocating stores, or expanding the network. I think the market has been a bit slow off the mark in recognising the benefits.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 12, 2021

We will invest in the site’s automation capability to support future growth and, over the next two years, we will recruit 500 new partners to work at the distribution centre, which we plan to start operating during summer 2022. “We The site is four miles from the retailer’s largest distribution hub, which is two million square feet.

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A1 Retail

JULY 23, 2024

This is part of the retailer’s ongoing nationwide expansion plan to create a more accessible shopping experience. 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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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. IKEA UK announces sales growth of 11.9

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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.

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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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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

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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VMS

JANUARY 30, 2022

which announced plans in November to team up with online resale platform ThredUP (Oakland, Calif.) unit of Netherlands-based IKEA announced plans to bring its “Buy Back & Resell Service” into 33 stores across the U.S. The big-box home furnishings retailer made the move to expand the program in 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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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

The company was founded to simultaneously fulfill a consumer need and do good in the world by giving a second chance to traditionally short-lived baby gear, and it handles everything from pickups to confirming the quality of items prior to selling. “I Our site is very curated,” said Hosie.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 27, 2022

If you are curious about how IKEA plans to keep its competitors at bay then consider these six elements of its strategy. Stores as fulfillment centres. With millions of people working and learning from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, home furnishing stores have been key beneficiaries. Sustainable practices.

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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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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Slightly below the industry average was furniture and Home Furnishing so that grew at 21 percent versus the industry average of 22 and if you just asked me to bet I would have said in the same way that building materials and Home Improvement stores. PDF Download). We also highlight the six most important trends of 2021.

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