Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 15, 2021

YoY; Furniture and home furnishings stores: Up 5.9% Conversely, categories like apparel skewed positive last month due to retailers mostly being closed at this time in 2020. For instance, clothing and accessory store sales were up 18.3% month-over-month seasonally adjusted, and up 104.6% unadjusted YoY.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The apparel category saw particularly marked price hikes in both July (up 15.26% ) and August (up 15.52% ), two months in which apparel prices typically drop amidst summer markdowns and back-to-school promotions.

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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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Inside Retail

JULY 20, 2022

per cent, on home furnishings by 6.5 per cent, and apparel by 2.4 SpendingPulse covers all in-store and online spending across all forms of payment and includes the hospitality sector. Spending on lodging in June was up by 17.9 per cent, electronics by 4.8 per cent. .

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Inside Retail

JULY 24, 2023

Kmart will continue to be price-driven and Target largely centred on affordable apparel and soft home furnishings, he added. “I I don’t see us doing this from a position of weakness. It’s quite the opposite.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

Bringing the trusted Zulily brand into our asset-light business model allows us to offer furniture and home furnishings, apparel and footwear, jewelry and watches, among other categories that are also core competencies of our off-price Overstock business with flash sale deal pricing,” said Overstock CEO Nielsen in a statement.

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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 Dive

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The move expands the children’s apparel brand into other product categories including home furnishings, toys and baby gear.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

I have a four-year-old and I have a one-and-a-half-year-old, and I saw the changes in the industry regarding resale in apparel, handbags, accessories, sneakers and home furnishing, but the baby industry was a little bit dated.

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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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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 Focus

JUNE 27, 2022

Renowned fashion and home furnishings retailer, Laura Ashley, has recently opened a new section in Braehead’s NEXT Home store, selling a range of furniture and homeware products. Lids, which sells fan and fashion-oriented headwear and apparel across the US, Canada and Puerto Rico, has signed on a c.1,000

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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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VMS

JANUARY 30, 2023

The move is designed to spur sales of higher-margin, discretionary items such as apparel, beauty products and home furnishings. Mass merchant Walmart (Bentonville, Ark.) has remodeled five of its SuperCenters in the Eastern U.S. into flagship stores featuring upgraded visual merchandising, CNBC reports.

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VMS

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In a letter to shareholders , Friedman again lamented the “widespread discounting” across the home furnishings industry. “ … While it’s been almost two years since we’ve deployed a promotional email, we’ve been receiving two sale emails per day from many home furnishings retailers.

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2025

The gutting of the fashion, accessories and home-furnishing sectors by e-commerce and the conversion of malls from apparel-heavy, transactional beasts to community social hubs has made mall landlords extremely welcoming of cafes. Malls are particularly welcoming, due to another accident of history: e-commerce.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Across the narrow canal behind Thompson’s home was a Muslim settlement, Ban Krua, which eked out a living weaving Thai silk. Thompson worked with the community to create silk apparel and home fabrics and in 1951 founded The Thai Silk Co, which owns the Jim Thompson brand to this day.

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VMS

APRIL 7, 2021

The note also predicted apparel retailers will be the largest group impacted by growing e-commerce. UBS said nearly 21,000 apparel retailers could close. In addition, roughly 7000 home furnishing stores are also likely to close. Currently at 18 percent, UBS predicts e-commerce sales will climb to 27 percent.

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VMS

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The store’s interiors are inspired by the industrial architecture of Marimekko’s textile printing factory in Helsinki, with traditional retail display fixtures replaced by “carefully selected design gems from different decades and distinct material choices,” the fashion and home furnishings retailer said in a release.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Online retail, up 1.2%, continues to perform alongside home furnishings and DIY stores, up 1.1% Weak volumes and persistent cost inflation will likely stress the credit quality of retailers most exposed to holiday shopping, along with their suppliers of discretionary items such as durables, household products, and apparel.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Something for everyone, particularly if you are young and female Moshi Moshi sells exclusive merchandise in 12 categories: home furnishing, bags, stationery, cosmetics, fashion, beauty, apparel, food and drinks, plush toys, IT gadgets, toys, and ‘other’. Some stores also sell pet accessories.

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VMS

JANUARY 30, 2022

Tenspace (Columbus, Ohio) offers digital native and direct-to-consumer brands, like sports apparel brand Rudis, a physical space to test store concepts and brand activations. Los Angeles-based apparel and accessories brand ban.do The big-box home furnishings retailer made the move to expand the program in the U.S.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 13, 2021

Reardon spent the last decade with Macy’s, retailer of apparel, accessories, cosmetics, home furnishings and other consumer goods under the Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury banners. She served as Macy’s chief marketing officer from 2012 through 2016.

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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

in August, as consumers spent more on apparel, electronics and home goods, the Commerce Department reported today. increase in spending on furniture and home furnishings, as well as a 3.5% WASHINGTON – U.S. retail sales increased a modest 0.7% The larger-than-expected increase followed a 1.8%

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VMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

RH (Corte Madera, CA) will open a four-level design gallery at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, CA that will feature a rooftop restaurant and wine bar, the luxury home furnishings retailer announced. The gallery will also include an in-house interior design firm and atelier to provide services.

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Retail Next

AUGUST 12, 2020

Traffic trends across categories are still down to last year, however, jewelry and home continue to be the brightest spots. Jewelry & home were -30-40% while traffic to apparel and shoe stores continued to struggle with worse trends.

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Retalon

AUGUST 22, 2023

Apparel Retailers Within apparel, accessories and jewelry retailers have lower turnover ratios – around 2-3x. Meanwhile, higher volume categories like women’s apparel and family clothing drive higher turnover of 3-4x. This leads to lower turnover of 3-4x across furniture and home furnishings.

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Retail Adventures

MARCH 7, 2025

Banana Republic recently added art and home furnishings to its merchandise mix with a new division called BR Home. This store in New Yorks SoHo neighborhood mixes home dcor and ready to wear in the same location. This apparel and accessories wall is also at Sendiks Food Market. Know who else does that well?

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Retail Gazette

JULY 24, 2023

The experience-led store includes a studio space offering free workout classes and a Joe and The Juice café, alongside the opportunity to shop its wide range of fitness apparel and accessories. You won’t be able to take all the furniture back home.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 21, 2022

It did and then, furnishings and furniture and Home Furnishings grew at 21 percent so about the industry average and again because of all the money people spend on their homes I kind of would have expected that to be higher so those two things.

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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. Overall e-commerce hit like our two-year forecast so it was a doubling not a 10 Xing. [14:00] Scot: [16:32] Risk is a Wayfarer has really picked up nicely.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2024

At this point, the retail industry is well aware of how enamored Gen Z consumers are with retail segments like skincare and apparel. One retail category that has been garnering more attention from this younger consumer group recently is the home goods market.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Cusack was previously head of international business at menswear specialty retailer Retail Apparel Group. Thai silk fashion and home furnishings brand Jim Thompson has appointed former PVH Asia president Frank Cancelloni as its new group CEO. Prior to that, she was general manager of PAS Group’s Bondi Bather and Jets Swimwear.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2022

Sportswear retailer Nike and home furnishings firm Ikea have shut down their stores in Russia, as the world responds to the rogue state’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.

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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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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 22, 2022

JD.com sells a range of products from electronics to food to apparel and has over 550 million active customers. They sell a range of goods from food to beauty to home furnishings. In 2021 JD.com generated revenues of $149.3 billion up 28% over 2020. JD.com opened its first brick and mortar stores in Europe earlier this year.

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Retail Adventures

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A sign like this is perfect for a fabric, quilt or even an apparel shop. The owners at Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings echo that sentiment with “We never miss a meal (or a snack)”. This “Textile Market” sign at Anthropologie adds a fun flair to the items merchandised below. Food is Good.

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