Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Electronics and appliances as well as furniture and home furnishing stores both marked double-digit increases over the previous month. Online sales continued to track gains as well, growing another 11% in January as consumers continued to turn to digital channels in lieu of shopping in stores. These saw a 6.9%

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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

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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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

Despite this good news, many executives at shopping malls and “destination centers” wonder just how much of this returning traffic will find its way to their venues. “ Retail TouchPoints spoke with executives from shopping destinations across the U.S. Shopping Destinations Set Sights on an ‘Experiential’ Tenant Mix.

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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. Nothing gets folks into the holiday spirit better than eliminating monotony and focusing on buying, which is secretly shopping for your customers!

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

Profitability is the Name of the Game Retailers will be looking for strong returns on investment throughout the enterprise, which means potentially putting projects with a longer-term payback — like the metaverse — on the back burner.

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Storis

APRIL 1, 2020

As we all are spending more time than ever before in our own homes, I wanted to take this time to reflect on some of our industry heroes. The home furnishings retail employees, from sales associates and delivery fleets to IT and warehouse teams, that help us make our house a home. Their bravery is astounding.

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Storis

MARCH 21, 2023

Written for the Home Furnishings Association’s Educational Series In a world before showroom technology , it was inefficient to track non-purchasing guests. Today, retailers leveraging in-store technology to track guests and build shopping carts generate valuable data. First-party data is increasingly important.

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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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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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Independent Retailer

APRIL 12, 2022

Take advantage of special savings and floor samples, including high-end goods plus gift items in the temporaries with no minimum orders, while also getting to know what is in demand from leading gift and home furnishings brands. Shop the Temps. Essential Tips for Cash & Carry. Know Where to Look for Samples. Bring a Cart.

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Hyken

JULY 4, 2022

It helps understand the customer better, allows you to personalize (at scale) marketing messages, improve the shopping experience, and more. Forbes) Having many returning customers is the goal of most successful businesses. This is exactly how AI is being used today. CMSWire) What’s in your abandoned cart?

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Stagnating financial well-being sentiment is one probable reason why spending intentions have not consistently returned to pre-inflation levels. Deloitte’s Spending Intentions Index measures changes in consumers’ estimated spending for the month ahead across 16 categories. Peak inflation of 9.1%

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Wiser

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In 2017, Target announced that it would partner with Google on an initiative that would allow consumers to shop at the retailer via Google Express. People who owned a Google Home system would be able to integrate that system with Target’s payment card, REDcard. They could shop, get support, and more via voice search.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 24, 2023

There is a throng of new store leases being signed across London’s West End that shows the shopping district has retained its appeal for big brands. The experience-led store includes a studio space offering free workout classes and a Joe and The Juice café, alongside the opportunity to shop its wide range of fitness apparel and accessories.

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Retail Next

APRIL 1, 2021

Today, retailers and brands need to support their customers how, when and where they want to shop. Retailers and brands need to support, allow and empower their customers to engage with – and shop – them as the customer wants. Virtual shopping. Again, Nordstrom with their new Nordstrom Live virtual shopping experiences.

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Retail Next

AUGUST 12, 2020

We do however, anticipate less people are going to be out shopping in stores due to this pandemic, especially with unemployment stimulus checks just ending and no news yet if they are going to be reinstated. Athleisure and lounge wear also continue to sell to provide the utmost comfort for those teaching, learning, and working from home. .

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Storis

JUNE 25, 2019

As a former retail employee in the home furnishings industry, I learned the ins and outs of delivering both positive and negative customer experiences firsthand. We were required to have the piece at checkout, even though it often returned to the warehouse until the customer could come to pick it up. It did not matter though.

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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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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 Geek

JANUARY 21, 2022

So since we didn’t get to do that at shop at NRF I thought maybe we could do it on this podcast for our listeners. Scot: [47:29] It’s where I shop. Expected you know with the hit that restaurants took that the grocery would have outperformed the industry average but you know it doesn’t seem like it.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Slightly below the industry average was furniture and Home Furnishing so that grew at 21 percent versus the industry average of 22 and if you just asked me to bet I would have said in the same way that building materials and Home Improvement stores. And then here’s where we start getting surprises.

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