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How Ikea Australia plans to champion affordability and the shopping experience

Inside Retail

MV: In recent years, we have invested heavily in our journey as an innovative omnichannel retailer, opening Plan and Order Point locations in Greater Melbourne and Sydney, enabling us to be exactly where our customers need us to be, which is a key part of our growth strategy for Ikea in Australia.

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Cashierless Space Gets More Crowded: JD.Com Opens Two Autonomous Stores in the Netherlands

Retail TouchPoints

The Ochama shops, located in Leiden and Rotterdam, carry everything from food to home furnishings and are operated entirely by robots. However, JD.com may start to catch up with its plans to open two additional stores in the Netherlands, with locations set for Amsterdam and Utrecht.

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2024 Industry Trend Guide

Storis

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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IKEA’s Strategy for Staying on Top

Indigo 9 Digital

If you are curious about how IKEA plans to keep its competitors at bay then consider these six elements of its strategy. With millions of people working and learning from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, home furnishing stores have been key beneficiaries. It plans to decrease its climate impact per item by 70% by 2030.