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. The consultation on these plans closes on 2 May so I encourage everyone to have their say.

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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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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.

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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

Meanwhile, the spooky store plans to bring on 50,000 employees. The company is currently eyeing an additional location in Newport Beach, California. The roles will support the retailer’s more than 1,500 temporary locations. after opening a location in Portland, Oregon. Retail therapy Pasta by the pool?

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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.

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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. Ikea plans to open eight new smaller-format stores this year. In the U.S.,

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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.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2022

Ikea is to launch its small-format planning studio concept in two locations in Australia this year. The first is in Northwest Melbourne, with the second planned for Newcastle. There will be no food on sale, as the main focus of the concept store is assisting customers in customising their home furnishing solutions.

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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

APRIL 20, 2023

Plans include opening new stores, strengthening its fulfillment network and enhancing its regional product offerings to better reflect the needs of customers in different parts of the country. Ikea will invest more than $2.2 billion in its U.S. Ikea is seeking to get closer to its shoppers, both physically and digitally. We know U.S.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. In May 2022, IKEA franchisor Ingka Group revealed its plan to invest more than €3 billion ( $3.16

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2023

Ikea is planning to invest more than US$2.2 Ikea expects to open eight additional shops, nine Plan & Order points, and create more than 2000 jobs during this first phase of expansion. In addition, Ikea will build 900 new Pick-up locations where customers can pick up purchases made online. The post Ikea unveils US$2.2

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Retail Wire

AUGUST 5, 2025

and Best Buy are launching a new shop-in-shop pilot this fall that will bring IKEA’s home furnishings and planning services into 10 Best Buy locations across Florida and Texas. Each Best Buy location will host a 1,000-square-foot IKEA-branded space focused on kitchen and laundry room layouts.

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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. For the recently acquired MyHouse business, GRBA is planning to expand the business beyond NSW, with stores in Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland. “We

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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. More than 50% of those surveyed plan or use Generative AI for designing digital ads, writing content, and personalizing marketing.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2024

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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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

Announced in 2019 , the 34,000sqm store will be located at Sylvia Park in Auckland. The stores are becoming more of an experience centre, while also supporting our fulfilment operations, and the Sylvia Park location will serve as a fulfilment unit to [service] online orders,” Winterbine said.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Newer stores are not as productive as older ones, indicating that the concept is approaching saturation or already there in the US and Canada, where Costco has most of its locations. This one definitely mimics elements of Costco, and more are planned. Costco’s 2023: a mixed bag Net sales in fiscal 2023 increased 7 per cent to US$237.7

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Retail Focus

JUNE 27, 2022

Renowned fashion and home furnishings retailer, Laura Ashley, has recently opened a new section in Braehead’s NEXT Home store, selling a range of furniture and homeware products. 1,000 sq ft space, as the brand pushes ahead on plans to increase its international presence. The store is set to open in this summer.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 5, 2022

After identifying a purpose for planning a pop-up experience, Mardi Najafi, VP of Retail Strategy and Design at FIGUR3 leads brands through the early planning stages. “[We] Preparing to Pop-Up Through Smart Planning. Home furnishings and accessories brand Sundays launched a Los Angeles pop-up experience Sept.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Additionally, through the adoption of 3D printing technology using agricultural waste from corn husks, sugar cane and sugar beet as materials, the company minimizes carbon emissions and toxic byproducts while creating an upcycled collection of sustainable home furnishings. location. Finally, Model No. Raub: Model No.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The homeware retailer’s 4,500sq ft space will open this winter, offering an easy-to-shop environment in a high footfall location as it looks to boost its presence in the capital. Products will cover Dunelm’s home and furniture categories and will include the latest collections and collaborations.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2022

We call it a small Planning Studio to support and help the customers in their journey to create a better everyday life at home,” said Öncu. At Ikea’s Planning Studios around the world, customers can receive one-on-one advice from its experts to help them design their homes and kitchens. Solving the last mile with robots.

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Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2023

Vincom tries to cover itself with four tailored formats: Vincom Center, which is designed for high-density locations; Vincom Mega Mall, a retail/entertainment concept averaging about 110,000sqm of gross floor area (GFA); and Vincom+ and Vincom Plaza, two formats that are oriented toward smaller provincial cities. per cent.

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VMS

JANUARY 30, 2022

Beyond those basics, Tenspace “is much more than a location to house a brand,” explains Faith Huddleston, Tenfold’s Director of Creative Activation. The concept may also expand to other physical locations. “We which announced plans in November to team up with online resale platform ThredUP (Oakland, Calif.) Broomfield, Colo.),

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Retail Dive

JULY 31, 2025

business, the home goods company will pilot kitchen and storage planning services inside select Best Buy locations, according to a Thursday press release. Two of those locations will also serve as free pickup points for most Ikea orders. Dive Brief: In a first for Ikea’s U.S. store count.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The London store is expected to be Ikea’s most innovative location to date, combining traditional retail expertise with new digital solutions and sustainable practices. As a city store, it will house a showroom, market hall filled with home furnishing accessories, and a Swedish deli.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Set to open in Winter 2024, this new location is part of Dunelm’s wider expansion strategy, with plans to launch several new stores in various formats and sizes across the UK. It gives Londoners much easier access to our specialist offer for the home and starts to unlock a real opportunity for our brand in the Capital.”

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It’s a formula that’s been mastered by TK Maxx for the last 29 years, with a typical shop stocking everything from fashion, handbags and accessories to cooking utensils, stationery and home furnishings at – more often than not – significantly reduced prices. What’s next?

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Storis

JANUARY 22, 2024

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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A1 Retail

JUNE 7, 2022

8 to invest in, and enhance, their current King’ Road store, transforming it into their London flagship location. This significant upsize is evidence of our ongoing support of the sleep technology and home furnishings brand, their continued success, and Sloane Stanley’s commitment to nurturing our tenants. Musi Chayla, Sleep.8’s

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Wiser

JULY 10, 2023

In order to maximize their success, some brands and retailers set up well-planned marketing campaigns in advance of the event. eBay eBay runs an entire week of deals each year in July for Amazon Prime Day shoppers looking for great bargains on tech products like laptop computers and tablets, as well as home items like furniture and decor.

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