365 Retail

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.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2022

If brands want to be top of mind when it’s time for consumers to bring their Pinterest boards to life, they need to be equipped with fresh insights into the sentiment, buying intent, shopping behavior and product preferences of their target buying groups. So which categories will they shop for this year?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

From today onward, customers will be able to use the Ikea App to scan a product’s barcode, creating a virtual shopping cart which can then be paid for at a marked checkout on the way out of the store. Our goal is to provide our customers with a consistent, seamless, and efficient shopping experience across all channels.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 29, 2023

Ikea is piloting car boot sale-style events to encourage customers to buy pre-loved home furnishings as part of its circular economy push. With the free to attend events, the Swedish furniture giant is encouraging the public to pass on their used goods as well as shop more second-hand.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Items featured in the boutique include timeless womenswear and menswear ranges, alongside luxurious textile accessories and woven home furnishings. . Rene Frion, Business Director of Kildare Village, commented: “Kildare Village offers a unique and evolving mix of brands, and we are thrilled to welcome Johnstons of Elgin.

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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. So while tightening returns policies (all else being equal) lowers sales, it’s not necessarily the case that lenient returns policies always boost sales — thanks to the wait-and-see shopping behavior I just described.

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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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Retail Focus

JUNE 27, 2022

Braehead, a leading retail and leisure destination, owned by property company SGS and asset managed by Global Mutual Properties, has announced a string of recent and upcoming openings at the centre. It draws from a local catchment population of 2.25

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic escalating the adoption of online shopping across all categories, the home goods sector in particular has seen a notable spike in ecommerce. Social shopping also has been a major source of traffic for the brand, and has increased significantly year-over-year.

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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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VMS

JULY 9, 2021

Home furnishings and kitchenware brand Williams-Sonoma (San Francisco) opened its first United Arab Emirates store in Dubai in March of this year. The 6500-square-foot space, located on the first floor of The Dubai Mall, will host free classes and product demos along with exclusive events and private shopping by appointment.

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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. But the development and popularisation of online shopping has enabled the company to reach more people. In terms of online shopping, New Zealand rates highly compared to many markets.

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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. However, there is greater conversion power in the digital Shopping Cart than meets the eye. . The most obvious is through a straightforward eCommerce Conversion.

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Storis

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With a legacy since 1989, STORIS is your trusted source in bringing market-relevant products to the home furnishings industry. Schedule A Product Tour As a sales manager, you’re the Santa to your sales team, the leader of holiday sales. Managing holiday headquarters can be a challenging job!

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 18, 2021

Called the “Home Experience of Tomorrow”, the transformation includes an innovative new design and incorporates new technology, new ways to shop, and a focus on emotional and empowering customer experiences. The essence of retail is to serve people. “The The essence of retail is to serve people.

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V Count

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Retail sales in shopping malls across the world are expected to grow according to Reuters, Economic Times, Trading Economics, and a number of other reliable research companies and data providers. Hence pops up the question of how your shopping mall can survive the upcoming turbulence and come out stronger than ever.

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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. The brand builds on GRBA’s House cooking, dining and entertaining stores with the introduction of bed linen, bath and living ranges.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic escalating the adoption of online shopping across all categories, the home goods sector in particular has seen a notable spike in ecommerce. Social shopping also has been a major source of traffic for the brand, and has increased significantly year-over-year.

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A1 Retail

JANUARY 25, 2022

New imagery showcases the UK’s first small size format, making it easier and more convenient than ever to shop IKEA products. With a focus on home furnishing accessories, and a brand-new food offering, IKEA Hammersmith will feature everything customers know and love about the retailer.

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A1 Retail

MAY 24, 2023

The new store will be managed by David Marshall-Smith and features a spacious layout of 1,284sqm of floor space. Designed to create an inviting and inspiring environment for shoppers, JYSK customers can expect to shop everything from outdoor living collections, furniture, accessories, soft furnishings, and lighting.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2022

From its automated warehouses to its carbon positive goals for the future and new city format stores, the 80-year-old furniture giant is continuing to evolve its offering, said Tolga Öncu, Ikea’s retail operations manager at the World Retail Congress last week. Last year, the business had 660 million people enter its physical stores and 4.6

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A1 Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Picture: Roni Tuominen, Country Manager for UK & Ireland. . Growth is owed to a continued focus by customers on home and garden improvements as well as new store expansion. Outlook is extremely positive for FY 2021/2022 says Country Manager for JYSK UK & Ireland. 14 more stores forecasted in UK and Ireland in 2021/2022.

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A1 Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

VoCoVo , a retail communications specialist, has partnered with Dunelm , the UK home furnishing retailer, to enhance its in-store security and help to prevent theft and loss. Prior to the implementation, Dunelm was facing a series of security challenges, with stores regularly targeted by thieves.

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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.

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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.”.

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365 Retail

JULY 26, 2023

The Plan & Order Point is a smaller store dedicated to kitchen and bedroom planning, which customers can visit for home furnishing advice and expertise to help design their ideal space. Michael Parker, Area Manager, IKEA UK, said: “Today, we start our journey to be much closer to the people in Lancashire.

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A1 Retail

JULY 26, 2023

The Plan & Order Point is a smaller store dedicated to kitchen and bedroom planning, which customers can visit for home furnishing advice and expertise to help design their ideal space. The launch marks the third opening of this format in the North West of England, following its introduction in Aintree last December and Stockport in March.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Despite inflationary headwinds, January retail sales show the resiliency of consumers in how they manage their budgets and make decisions on how, when and where to spend their hard-earned dollars,” NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay said. Furniture and home furnishings stores were up 4.4% year over year. year over year.

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Storis

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

For online shopping, this can include saving information such as their contact information or address, along with usernames and passwords. Many retailers in the home furnishings industry are also offering Membership Programs , where customers have the option to pay to receive perks and promotional pricing all year round.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2020

Eric Hutchinson, Founder of Resident , talked about how the direct-to-consumer seller and distributor of mattresses used its algorithms to identify those customers most likely to be more comfortable with in-person shopping and direct them to retail partners’ stores. The company hired more than 500.

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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. While it might be hard to image this location doesn’t even have parking. Food to lure you in.

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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.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 25, 2022

The shop will focus on home accessories and soft furnishings, while larger furniture items will also be on display and can be ordered for home delivery or delivery to nearby collection points. They will also be able to explore the whole range, for delivery to a convenient collection point or directly to their home.”.

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Storis

APRIL 18, 2024

Customers expect a precise delivery date to be declared to proceed with a purchase both when shopping online and in-store. The fantastic news is that the home furnishings industry has a leading solution that delivers these exact capabilities with real-time precision. Ambiguity just won’t cut it for today’s buyer.

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Storis

APRIL 12, 2024

Customers expect a precise delivery date to be declared to proceed with a purchase both when shopping online and in-store. The fantastic news is that the home furnishings industry has a leading solution that delivers these exact capabilities with real-time precision. Ambiguity just won’t cut it for today’s buyer.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JUNE 9, 2022

There are many different theories about how the in-store shopping experience will change over the next decade. Scanning QR codes as you shop to retrive product information is another feature of in-store shopping you will see more of. Personalized shopping recommendations. Picture of Amazon Style. Fast shipping.

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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. The announcement marks part of a long-term transformation to become more convenient and accessible by bringing IKEA closer to where customers live, shop and socialise.

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