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How Ikea Australia plans to champion affordability and the shopping experience

Inside Retail

For us, growth in online sales driven by the Covid-19 pandemic has led us to transform service formats and customer meeting points, reimagine stores as fulfilment centres, and evolve our customer service centre for customers to shop with us remotely.

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2024 Industry Trend Guide

Storis

So, buckle up, home furnishings retailers; we’re ready to accelerate. The State of the Home Furnishings Industry With abundant opportunity, let’s explore how market and consumer behavior position retailers for success. These positive indicators can support a successful year for home furnishings retail.

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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. “The

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Answer Product Questions Confidently with Mobile Solutions

Storis

Sales associates are at the forefront of your business, representing your brand to customers; therefore, having a dedicated and knowledgeable team is crucial to every home furnishings retailer. Can varying fulfillment options get my customer their product faster? How do other items on this order impact the overall availability?

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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. “The

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Digital Shopping Carts

Storis

Even if you are a home furnishings retailer that converts most of your revenue in your physical stores, your website plays a critical role in driving store traffic. So how can you make the checkout process on your furniture eCommerce website as convenient as possible to drive your conversion rate higher? DigitalCommerce360).

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Leverage Tech in the 5-Step Selling Process

Storis

Written for the Home Furnishings Association’s Educational Series In a world before showroom technology , it was inefficient to track non-purchasing guests. You did all that work organically while shopping and significantly reduced the checkout time, a positive your new customer will surely remember.