Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Harvey Norman made its English debut last month in the unlikely location of Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Dudley. ” 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. million people.”

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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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). STORIS gives you real-time, accurate inventory visibility.

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

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.

Home Furnishings

A1 Retail

MARCH 18, 2025

The IKEA Oxford Street store will offer the traditional IKEA experience: a showroom packed with inspiration and roomsets, a market-hall filled with affordable home furnishings accessories, planning appointments and a Swedish Deli. London is an iconic shopping destination, and we are thrilled to now have a home in its centre.

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VMS

JUNE 18, 2025

Luxury home furnishings e-retailer Perigold (Boston) has opened its first physical store , in Houston’s Highland Village shopping center. I’m excited to see Perigold opening a brick-and-mortar location, and Houston is the perfect place for it,” notes Flanigan, a high-profile Houston designer and longtime partner of Perigold. “As

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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

Retail Dive

JUNE 27, 2025

Dive Brief: Home textile brand Parachute plans to close a total of 19 stores by the end of this year, according to information the company shared with Retail Dive. The brand began shuttering locations earlier this year. This follows the company’s venture into home furnishings, which started in 2021 with bed frames.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 27, 2025

The company is currently eyeing an additional location in Newport Beach, California. Image courtesy of Pottery Barn Teen For its exclusive home furnishings collection with the Women’s National Basketball Association, Pottery Barn Teen created bedding and room decor featuring all 13 teams. Retail therapy Pasta by the pool?

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Storis

JUNE 4, 2025

When you’re managing dozens of locations and omni-channel fulfillment, small inefficiencies become expensive fast. Why STORIS Is Built for This Moment STORIS is the unified commerce solution purpose-built for home furnishings retail. For large furniture retailers, the stakes are high. Reporting becomes trustworthy.

Home Furnishings

365 Retail

MARCH 18, 2025

The IKEA Oxford Street store will offer the traditional IKEA experience: a showroom packed with inspiration and roomsets, a market-hall filled with affordable home furnishings accessories, planning appointments and a Swedish Deli. London is an iconic shopping destination, and we are thrilled to now have a home in its centre.

Home Furnishings

Retail Dive

JUNE 24, 2025

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 20,000-square-foot flagship store is located at Highland Village, a shopping destination built in 1957 that caters to luxury retail among its 60 tenants.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 28, 2021

The 4,120-square-foot store will be the first location in Michigan for the retailer, which sells women’s and men’s apparel, jewelry, footwear, accessories, home furnishings and art. One-of-a-kind pieces and items exclusive to Sundance will be the cornerstone of the product offering. “We

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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 billion. “We

Home Furnishings

Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2022

Ikea is to launch its small-format planning studio concept in two locations in Australia this year. Unlike its traditional warehouse-like stores, the Planning Studio is sized between 300-500sqm and designed for customers to plan and order complex home furnishings and services such as dining, kitchens, and bed spaces.

Home Furnishings

Inside Retail

JULY 10, 2022

Once reserved online, customers can make the purchase by visiting their selected store’s As-Is area, located near the checkout area. A new ‘ As-Is Online ’ section on the Ikea website lets customers access discontinued items, used showroom display items as well as pre-loved goods returned through the business’ Buy Back service.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Ochama shops, located in Leiden and Rotterdam, carry everything from food to home furnishings and are operated entirely by robots. Ochama takes a different approach from Amazon Go , which mimic traditional store shopping experiences in locations like a 10,400 -square-foot grocery store in Seattle.

Home Furnishings

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ikea Pasay City also marks the chain’s first location in the Philippines. The 67,760sqm store, scheduled to open on November 25, is located next to the Mall of Asia and spans five stories. While two floors are dedicated to retail activities, the remaining floors are for stocks and e-commerce operations.

Home Furnishings

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

IKEA will expand options for urban customers on the West Coast with two planning studios in the Los Angeles area set to open in spring 2022: one in Long Beach and a second in a yet-to-be-determined location. Shoppers will be able to book appointments with design specialists to help with both planning and ordering home furnishings.

Planning

Inside Retail

APRIL 24, 2024

Furniture retailer Nick Scali is entering the UK market through acquiring Anglia Home Furnishings, trading as Fabb Furniture, for £3.5 million ($6.7 Nick Scali intends to pay $1 million to exercise the option to exit the existing distribution centre arrangement and inject up to $11.5 million of working capital.

Home Furnishings

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

to fortify its brick-and-mortar traffic was implemented following initiatives such as the August 2022 announcement that the retailer would roll out 200 fast electric vehicle (EV) chargers at locations across the country by the end of 2023. billion ) to open new locations and renovate existing stores by the end of 2023. .

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2024

Photo credit: KPF) Located at the intersection of the Plaza and Grand Central Districts, 570 Fifth Avenue will be a 1,000,000 -square-foot mixed-use commercial building and marks the largest development on Fifth Avenue in more than 60 years. Rendering of 570 Fifth Avenue, which will feature an office tower and ground-level Ikea.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2022

Home furnishings retailer Wayfair will be part of a six-week autonomous delivery pilot this July and August along the I-45 corridor between Houston and Dallas. Hunt Transport Services will deploy the Waymo Driver solution, and will use J.B. Hunt 360 technology to automate processes such as check calls and transactions.

Home Furnishings

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2023

The company will achieve this by opening 900 new pickup locations where customers can collect purchases; eight new stores; and nine Plan & Order points, where shoppers can schedule free appointments to discuss their interior design needs with Ikea’s experts. “We We know U.S. in a statement. “We

Planning

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

By 2032, digital will be the most important area of their business, and sectors that today have remained relatively untouched — motor vehicles and parts, convenience stores, furniture/home furnishing stores, building material, and more — will have reinvented their digital posture and orientation.

Shopping

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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Shopping Center

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings Outlet has opened at Vero Beach Outlets, a 340,000-square-foot outlet center located in Vero Beach. Retailers at Vero Beach Outlets include Michael… The post Home Furnishings Retailer Opens at Vero Beach Outlets in South Florida appeared first on Shopping Center Business.

Home Furnishings

Retail Dive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The home furnishings retailer is installing solar power, and renewable heating and cooling, in multiple locations across the United States.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Home furnishing giant Ikea has launched the world’s first Ikea Close to You concept store inside the Market Place grocer in Hong Kong’s Discovery Bay. Ikea Close to You is also the retailer’s first store located inside a supermarket.

Home Furnishings

Inside Retail

MAY 13, 2021

Global Retail Brands Australia (GRBA) is making an aggressive push into the home furnishings market with the launch of a new brand, House – Bed & Bath. We have [selected] around 35 new locations and quite a lot of those will open in the second half of this year as well.”.

Home Furnishings

Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2021

Retailers must construct their digital environment as carefully and strategically as they do their physical store locations. Retailers confronted with a substantial number of online returns need to approach the problem not from a cost and logistics perspective, but from the vantage point of an end-to-end customer experience.

Returns

Storis

AUGUST 31, 2020

As I browsed websites of stores located near me, I started to create a wishlist of my favorite sofas. I saw the color I was looking for as an option and underneath the product description was bolded text stating it was available at my local showroom location. This was exactly the online validation I was looking for.

Home Furnishings

Retail Focus

JANUARY 13, 2022

JD.com has opened two robotic shops by the new brand name “ ochama ” in the Netherlands, with more locations to follow soon. The new model of shops introduces an unprecedented shopping format merging online ordering and pick-up shop in which robots prepare the parcels, and home delivery service.

Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Designing a photoshoot for a furniture collection is typically an expensive, logistics-heavy procedure that involves months spent coordinating teams of people, products and locations.

Drop-Shipping

Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2023

In addition, Ikea will build 900 new Pick-up locations where customers can pick up purchases made online. Last year, Ikea US has added 15 customer Pick-up locations and two Plan & Order stations to make Ikea more accessible to customers. This summer, the company also announced new locations in San Francisco, CA and Arlington, VA.

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