Inside Retail

AUGUST 12, 2024

Ikea has signed a three-year contract with Australia Post to manage the delivery of small and medium parcels, representing about 65 per cent of the furniture and homewares retailers’ online sales. Partnering with Australia’s largest delivery provider allows us to greatly enhance our accessibility for our customers in this way.”

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Storis

JANUARY 22, 2024

So, buckle up, home furnishings retailers; we’re ready to accelerate. We surveyed home furnishings retailers for insights on strategies to accelerate growth. The State of the Home Furnishings Industry With abundant opportunity, let’s explore how market and consumer behavior position retailers for success.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2023

Devising a new returns policy, then, entails managing a series of trade-offs that vary from one business to the next. Mehmet Altug is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the School of Business at George Mason University. He has a PhD in Decision, Risk and Operations from Columbia Business School.

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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. Big-box stores may dominate on scale, but today’s retail competition is not just about who’s bigger.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

Profit margins in this area are typically many times larger than those generated by selling products to consumers, but some nascent media “moguls” are concerned about measurement, data management and connecting ads to customer actions in the digital and physical worlds (just like with the rest of retail). “We Enablement is so important.

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Storis

JUNE 4, 2025

When you’re managing dozens of locations and omni-channel fulfillment, small inefficiencies become expensive fast. Where Fragmented Systems Hurt the Most Disconnected platforms often feel manageable—until they start showing up in your financials. For large furniture retailers, the stakes are high.

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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. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2020

Home furnishing sales also migrated further online during the pandemic, putting pressure on the supply chain for Resident, which sells mattresses under the Nectar Sleep, Awara Sleep, Level Sleep and DreamCloud Sleep brands as well as the Bundle brand for furniture. The company hired more than 500.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

Ikea Group’s expansion manager Fabian Winterbine told Inside Retail that New Zealand has been considered something of a “missing piece” for many years. Announced in 2019 , the 34,000sqm store will be located at Sylvia Park in Auckland. Accompanied by an e-commerce platform, it is set to open its doors to the public in 2025.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If you are curious about how Wayfair came to dominate the online home goods market here are seven facts about Wayfair’s strategy you should consider including the challenges it faces as an eCommerce business. Wayfair launched after it consolidated 250 individual websites selling home furnishings into a single brand called Wayfair.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

OCTOBER 22, 2020

While brick and mortar stores still play a strategic role in this market vertical, online shopping has skyrocketed, and with $294 billion expected in online home furnishing sales by 2022, retail store owners can no longer afford to miss out on the opportunity to ramp up their cross-channel game plans. What is cross-channel retailing?

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365 Retail

AUGUST 12, 2021

As a result of the shift away from store sales, John Lewis has announced a series of closures and management shake-ups, affecting around 3,700 jobs across its stores and Waitrose supermarkets. We will use the Fenny Lock site to fulfil customer orders for fashion, small home furnishing items and technology products.”. “We

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Storis

MAY 29, 2024

Dropshipping is gaining momentum as streamlined supply chains become a significant competitive advantage in the home furnishings industry. This logistical strategy empowers streamlined fulfillment with reduced overhead for retailers while expanding product offerings with significant flexibility.

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VMS

JANUARY 30, 2022

The big-box home furnishings retailer made the move to expand the program in the U.S. We are excited to share that the ‘Buy Back & Resell’ pilot in Conshohocken had positive results – 100 percent of product brought in was resold versus recycled,” says Jennifer Keesson, Country Sustainability Manager, IKEA U.S. “We

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Storis

DECEMBER 5, 2022

One of the challenges home furnishings retailers are facing today is having excess inventory due to prolonged supply chain delays. Managing your inventory is a sophisticated balancing act. Having a home furnishings eCommerce website enables you to reach a broader audience, increasing the market for your excess inventory.

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Storis

DECEMBER 5, 2022

One of the challenges home furnishings retailers are facing today is having excess inventory due to prolonged supply chain delays. Managing your inventory is a sophisticated balancing act. Speak to a Home Furnishings Retail Expert. Just-In-Time Inventory Management. Request a Demo. Request a Demo.

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Storis

JUNE 5, 2022

How can your home furnishings website help you get there? Research Home Furnishings Online, Buy Offline The most prevalent consumer shopping behavior is to research online before ultimately purchasing in a showroom. Therefore a primary goal of your website is to drive educated shoppers into your home furnishings store.

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Storis

JANUARY 22, 2024

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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Storis

JULY 12, 2022

As we continue STORIS NextGen’s evolution, we share the Top 5 Areas of ROI your peers have found through our web-based, mobile solution for home furnishings retail. But the vast majority of those guests ultimately need to fulfill their shopping needs. With STORIS NextGen, increase the likelihood guests will buy from you.

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Mass Relators

JULY 15, 2024

Several product categories have already reached that level, including toy and hobby, office supply, consumer electronics, books and magazines, music and videos, computer hardware and software, home furnishings, and sporting goods. “E-commerce E-commerce in the U.S. The report also highlights several trends to watch in the U.S.

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Storis

AUGUST 8, 2018

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. Communicate regularly on when an item is getting ready for delivery and other key milestones leading up to fulfillment. Powerful Conversion Tools. Request a Demo.

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Hyken

APRIL 8, 2022

He has experience across the Contact Center spanning Hiring, Training, Quality, Workforce Management, and Performance Management. It is also about the reasons behind buying the product such as the need it fulfills, the price the customer is ready to pay, or the promotions which motivate him to fulfill the need.

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Storis

APRIL 19, 2024

Retail leaders can take advantage of Webhooks to accelerate automation in their home furnishings retail operations and build scalable data-driven workflows. For example, if the trigger event is a new order being placed on a website , a Webhook could send an alert to the order management system to kick off fulfillment.

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Storis

APRIL 8, 2024

Retail leaders can take advantage of Webhooks to accelerate automation in their home furnishings retail operations and build scalable data-driven workflows. For example, if the trigger event is a new order being placed on a website, a Webhook could send an alert to the order management system to kick off fulfillment.

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Storis

MAY 1, 2024

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. Communicate regularly on when an item is getting ready for delivery and other key milestones leading up to fulfillment.

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A1 Retail

JULY 23, 2024

Jakob Bertilsson, Country Customer Fulfilment Manager, IKEA UK, said: The opening of our one-hundredth mobile pick-up point marks an exciting moment for our journey to become more accessible. Following the opening of the 100 th pick-up point, IKEA plans to open an additional 100 pick-up points, with half of them due to open this year.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 27, 2022

-area residents are often frustrated by being stuck in traffic, we identified geographic areas in the market that are beyond a 30-minute drive from existing stores and where affinity to IKEA is extremely high,” said IKEA Area Manager Janet McGowan. Stores as fulfillment centres. Continued modernization of the shopping experience.

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

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. New services, delivery and fulfilment capabilities enabling faster and more sustainable customer deliveries will follow.

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Storis

APRIL 16, 2024

The fantastic news is that the home furnishings industry has a leading solution that delivers these exact capabilities with real-time precision. These calculations automatically tabulate precise and achievable fulfillment dates for your customer’s orders. Ambiguity just won’t cut it for today’s buyer.

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Storis

APRIL 18, 2024

The fantastic news is that the home furnishings industry has a leading solution that delivers these exact capabilities with real-time precision. These calculations automatically tabulate precise and achievable fulfillment dates for your customer’s orders. Ambiguity just won’t cut it for today’s buyer.

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Storis

APRIL 12, 2024

The fantastic news is that the home furnishings industry has a leading solution that delivers these exact capabilities with real-time precision. These calculations automatically tabulate precise and achievable fulfillment dates for your customer’s orders. Ambiguity just won’t cut it for today’s buyer.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2025

The lockers will be able to accommodate both small home furnishings and larger flat-pack furniture items. “We are always looking for ways to make shopping at Ikea more convenient and accessible,” said Michael Davey-Sutherland, fulfilment development manager at Ikea Australia.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Retail sales are projected to rise as consumer confidence strengthens, especially in discretionary categories such as electronics and home furnishings. Autonomous delivery systems and hyperlocal fulfilment centres are predicted to reduce logistics costs by 12 per cent, making same-day delivery a more viable standard service.

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