Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 27, 2025

Food has always been very important for Ikea, and we wanted to enable even more people to enjoy our restaurant offer while exploring our home furnishing range,” said Tolga Öncü, Ingka Retail Manager (COO) at Ikea Retail (Ingka Group) in a statement.

Home Furnishings

A1 Retail

JANUARY 16, 2025

The new IKEA store in Brighton will focus on providing locally relevant, functional, and sustainable home furnishing solutions, inspired by the regions distinct local identity. Lisa Ward, Life at Home expert at IKEA UK, said:At IKEA, we strive to create a better everyday life for as many people as possible.

Home Furnishings

A1 Retail

APRIL 2, 2025

Jen Pollard, Senior Analyst at Visualsoft, commented: This Mothers Day, weve observed a meaningful shift in consumer behaviour. Both Fashion and Furniture, Home Furnishings and DIY experienced their peak sales on the Monday before Mothers Day, while Gifts, Gadgets, Gaming and Health, Beauty and Cosmetics peaked on Tuesday.

Home Furnishings

Retail Focus

JULY 29, 2025

The new Plan and Order Point will open its doors in York at 9.00am on Friday, the 29 th of August. At these locations, customers can access in-depth home furnishing advice from experienced IKEA co-workers, who can assist them in planning, purchasing, and installing their ideal kitchens, bedroom and living room storage.

Home Furnishings

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2025

Teylez Perez: That’s related to our overall goal, which is to offer access to products to improve the quality of life for families that are working really hard , encompassing home furnishings, appliances, electronics, apparel and gaming. RTP: What have been some of your biggest challenges in your time at Curacao?

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 21, 2025

Convenience stores offer quick access to necessities, often at a premium. These stores typically sell items at lower prices than traditional retail stores by utilizing strategies like overstock sales and liquidated merchandise. Discount retailers like Walmart leverage high-volume sales at lower prices.

Specialty Store

Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

“The real root cause of the issues at Homebase lies on the back of its acquisition by Wesfarmers. When Hilco bought the chain it took swift action, closing a third of Homebase’s stores via a CVA as well as two warehouses, and reverting back to its previous home furnishing focus. EBITDA, compared with a £114.5m

Home Furnishings

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Conversations with internal and external stakeholders were around figuring out what we, with our unique capabilities as a home furnishings retail company and design experts, would bring to these types of problems.” Additionally, a six-foot glassed-in porch “provides an interstitial space between the home and the community.”

Home Furnishings

Retail Gazette

MARCH 17, 2025

Ikea has confirmed its highly anticipated Oxford Street flagship will open at the start of May following an extensive environmental upgrade of the Grade II listed building. Shoppers will also be able to book complimentary one-to-one design consultations for kitchens and bedroom storage. We look forward to welcoming you in.

Home Furnishings

VMS

JULY 7, 2025

Elk Home (Nesquehoning, Pa.) The designer lighting/home furnishings retailer has hired GA Group to run a liquidation sale for the $46 million in inventory the company still has at its distribution center in Georgia. is going out of business. and New York. Published reports say those locales are now closed.

Home Furnishings

VMS

JUNE 30, 2025

has opened RH Oklahoma City, The Gallery at OAK, which it describes in a news release as “an immersive retail experience seamlessly integrating luxury home furnishings collections from RH Interiors, Modern and Outdoor with rare art, antiques and artifacts from across the globe.” RH (Corte Madera, Calif.)

Home Furnishings

A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The exceptional interest in the 150 available positions marks the largest-ever response the home furnishing retailer has seen in the UK, shattering all previous recruitment records. Benefits of working at IKEA IKEA is proud to be a Real Living Wage employer, offering all co-workers a starting salary of 13.85

Home Furnishings

Retail Gazette

APRIL 30, 2025

The Swedish furniture giant has spent the last three years transforming the 5,800sqm space that was once home to Topshop into a mecca for home decor lovers. The inner city store – a relatively new concept for the retailer – is housed inside the Grade II-listed building at 214 Oxford Street and spans across three floors.

Home Furnishings

Storis

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The rise of cyber-attacks across industries has elevated cybersecurity from a background consideration to a mission-critical priorityespecially for home furnishings retailers. For home furnishings retailers, these risks are magnified during peak selling periods, where even a brief disruption can result in substantial lost revenue.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Operating profits edged up 4% from £1.8bn (€2.2bn) to £1.9bn (€2.3bn) in the year to 31 August at Inter Ikea, the owner of the Swedish furniture giant, despite a 9% drop in sales, as the retailer decided to cut prices in the face of the cost-of-living crisis.

Home Furnishings

Storis

JUNE 11, 2025

Specifically designed for home furnishings retailers, STORIS provides a comprehensive retail platform that seamlessly integrates essential business operations like point of sale, inventory management, delivery scheduling, and customer relationship management (CRM).

Home Furnishings

Storis

JUNE 4, 2025

The Big-Box Challenge for Mid-Sized Furniture Retailers Mid-size home furnishings retailers face a unique challenge: competing against national chains that seem to have limitless buying power, inventory, and marketing reach. Technology That Levels the Field The reality is this: you can’t beat the big boxes at their game.

Home Furnishings

A1 Retail

APRIL 30, 2025

Creating a unique shopping experience in the heart of one of the worlds most dynamic shopping streets, IKEA Oxford Street will bring together home furnishing inspiration and retail innovation, offering more than just a place to shop. Classic IKEA dishes will be available including hot dogs from 0.85

Home Furnishings

Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

” Harvey Norman has been careful not to overwhelm the customer with product by adding a partition in the store, which gives the effect of two separate home and technology stores within the one unit.

Home Furnishings

A1 Retail

MARCH 18, 2025

IKEA will open the doors of its highly anticipated Oxford Street store onThursday 1 st May, marking the completion of an extensive environmental upgrade of the Grade II listed building at 214 Oxford Street in central London. Acompactself-serve area housessmaller pieces of furniture for customers to take home in the iconic blue FRAKTA bag.

Home Furnishings

Retail Dive

JUNE 27, 2025

You can unsubscribe at anytime. Over the last year, we’ve taken a hard look at our retail footprint and made some difficult decisions,” Ait Oufkir said. “We This follows the company’s venture into home furnishings, which started in 2021 with bed frames. You can unsubscribe at anytime. By Daphne Howland • Feb.

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Inside Retail

JULY 24, 2025

Inside Retail: Having worked with Lazada, Home24Germany and now Castlery, what drew you to the home furnishing industry and what excites you the most about your role at Castlery? For me, one of the biggest throughlines has been the home and living category. So people’s perspective of their home shifted.

Marketing

VMS

JUNE 18, 2025

Luxury home furnishings e-retailer Perigold (Boston) has opened its first physical store , in Houston’s Highland Village shopping center. The retailer, founded in 2017, also said it will open a second store this fall, at the CityPlace complex in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Home Furnishings

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Franchise Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a restructuring agreement with its primary lenders that will allow its three strongest banners — Pet Supplies Plus , The Vitamin Shoppe and Buddy’s Home Furnishings — to remain in operation. 5 at its 365 locations and online.

Home Furnishings

Storis

JUNE 4, 2025

A Silent Drain on Profitability At first glance, your tech stack might look functional. But under the surface, disconnected systems quietly chip away at your margins, customer experience, and operational efficiency. Streamlined Operations at Scale Training time decreases. Your POS works. Your warehouse ships.

Home Furnishings

365 Retail

MARCH 18, 2025

IKEA will open the doors of its highly anticipated Oxford Street store on Thursday, 1 st May , marking the completion of an extensive environmental upgrade of the Grade II listed building at 214 Oxford Street in central London. Taking the escalator one floor down, shopperswill discoverinspirational and innovative roomsets.

Home Furnishings

Retail Dive

JUNE 27, 2025

You can unsubscribe at anytime. Jill names chief merchant as Spirit Halloween resurrects seasonal hiring Courtney O’Connor, formerly head of merchandising at Club Monaco, joins Monday. O’Connor was most recently the chief merchandising officer at Club Monaco and has 20 years of experience at other retailers including Ralph Lauren, J.

Home Furnishings

Retail Dive

JUNE 24, 2025

You can unsubscribe at anytime. Dive Brief: Wayfair’s Perigold luxury home retail brand has opened its first brick-and-mortar store , located in Houston, according to a press release. The Houston store features over 150 luxury home brands, including Visual Comfort, Century Furniture, Oly, House of Rohl and Theodore Alexander.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2025

Retailers’ overseas expansions bear an uncanny resemblance to the great human migrations since prehistoric times: In the latter case, populations have migrated in waves whenever resources were dwindling at their origin and growth beckoned elsewhere. They see saturation looming at home and look for opportunities elsewhere.

Department Stores

Storis

APRIL 14, 2025

As the Training and Learning Team Lead at STORIS, we heard the feedback of our clients and acted. STORIS Academy – Specialized Training for the Home Furnishings Industry At STORIS, our Learning Management System (LMS) is uniquely tailored for furniture and appliance retailers.

Management

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2025

The store also will feature a home planning hub offering complimentary one-on-one design consultations with Ikea home furnishings experts and a selection of 3,500 affordable home furnishings accessories and small furniture. Customers can have larger pieces delivered to their homes or to a network of pickup points.

Home Furnishings

Retail Times

MARCH 10, 2025

Through the two-year partnership, the UKs fourth-largest supermarket will provide Salvation Army stores across the country with unsold, non-food Specialbuys, such as kitchen accessories, home furnishings and clothing, at a reduced cost. Retail Times - Retail Times | Retail News | Free Retail News

Home Furnishings

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The new doorstep returns pilot comes as Overstock.com completes its transition into a furniture-only online retailer, after 18 months spent exiting all non-home categories. As the fourth -largest online retailer of home furnishings in the U.S., 30, 2022, and customer count dropping 22.6%.

Home Furnishings

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

has purchased 47 Buddy’s Home Furnishings rent-to-own franchises from Franchise Group Inc. This is the company’s first foray into the home furnishings vertical. Currently, the retailer distributes bebe-branded products worldwide through its licensees in approximately 100 international stores and online at bebe.com.

Home Furnishings

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 10, 2023

Franchise Group owns and operates a number of “franchised and franchisable” businesses that include The Vitamin Shoppe as well as Pet Supplies Plus , Wag N’ Wash , American Freight , Badcock Home Furniture & More , Buddy’s Home Furnishings and Sylvan Learning. The transaction is valued at approximately $2.6

Home Furnishings

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2021

Tapping into the platform’s 85 million+ audience of those searching for home inspiration and ways to shop, IKEA U.S. The immersive interaction brings shoppers deeper into home furnishing inspiration and products from IKEA with questions like, “If you could be anywhere irl… Where would you be?” in a statement.

Home Furnishings

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2022

Franchise Group has offered to acquire the retailer for $60 per share , which would value the company at approximately $8 billion. Franchise Group has acquired several other struggling retailers in recent years, including Pet Supplies Plus in 2021 and The Vitamin Shoppe , Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores and Buddy’s Home Furnishings in 2019.

Home Furnishings