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Walmart Creates Five New-Look Flagships

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into flagship stores featuring upgraded visual merchandising, CNBC reports. The move is designed to spur sales of higher-margin, discretionary items such as apparel, beauty products and home furnishings. That previous coverage said Walmart planned as many as 30 such flagships.)

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Restoration Hardware CEO Plots New Stores, Predicts More Success

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The comments came during RH’s second-quarter earnings call, during which the luxury home furnishings giant reported revenues that jumped 39 percent over the same period last year. Additional gallery experiences are planned for London proper and Paris. The 2Q results prompted RH to revise its revenue forecast upward for 2021.

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Pop-Up Strategies That Power Unique Shopper Journeys

Retail TouchPoints

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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(Some of) the Technology that is Empowering the Customer Channel in Physical Retail

Retail Next

Improved 3D product visualization. Can you be a home furnishings retailer without compelling 3D product visualization and customization? We layered this data with the merchandise layout (where each brand and products were) and even our staff schedules. Swarovski has also played in this space. I think not.

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3 Trends That Will Positively Impact Retail in 2022

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which announced plans in November to team up with online resale platform ThredUP (Oakland, Calif.) unit of Netherlands-based IKEA announced plans to bring its “Buy Back & Resell Service” into 33 stores across the U.S. The big-box home furnishings retailer made the move to expand the program in the U.S. Advertisement.

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