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How Ikea Australia plans to champion affordability and the shopping experience

Inside Retail

We take the responsibility as a retailer to maintain our product offer through these times and not pass on these costs to our customers where possible. In the property market, things are slowing for now, but the record shortage of rental properties will continue to drive prices up for tenants, particularly in our capital cities.

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2024 Industry Trend Guide

Storis

So, buckle up, home furnishings retailers; we’re ready to accelerate. To accelerate, “the architectural makeup of retail systems must work in harmony across all platforms to accommodate customers. More than 50% of those surveyed plan or use Generative AI for designing digital ads, writing content, and personalizing marketing.

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City Furniture Overhauls Ecommerce Approach to Create Highly Customized Shopper Journeys

Retail TouchPoints

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. “For

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City Furniture Overhauls Ecommerce Approach to Create Highly Customized Shopper Journeys

Retail TouchPoints

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. “For

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IKEA’s Strategy for Staying on Top

Indigo 9 Digital

With these stores IKEA no longer expects customers to travel long distances just to get a feel for its merchandise, instead IKEA hopes customers only have to travel 30 minutes to reach a store. IKEA also hopes by locating these stores in city centres customers will visit more frequently. Understanding that many L.A.-area

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IKEA Hammersmith opening marks the start of a £1 billion investment in London

A1 Retail

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. Peter Jelkeby, Country Retail Manager and Chief Sustainability Officer, IKEA UK & Ireland, says: “Everything we do starts with our customers.

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(Some of) the Technology that is Empowering the Customer Channel in Physical Retail

Retail Next

While the last years fueled massive improvements in researching, browsing, selecting, purchasing, returning and/or exchanging on mobile devices, tablets and desktops, the current transformation brings more intelligence and continuity to customer experiences with retailers, where the store is a fundamental part of the process. .