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Home Furnishings Retailers

Home furnishings retailers have a lot to contend with these days — online competition, changing consumer expectations, rising retail rents. In this section, find news, products and trends for home furnishings retailers to see continued success.

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This year, Walmart and other retailers tried a few new strategies to compete with online retailers and bring customers to their stores. (Photo: Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube via Flickr)

What You Can Learn from Walmart's Black Friday Strategy

Ten years ago, no Thanksgiving meal ended without a few Black Friday horror stories: alarms going off at 4 a.m., the long lines in front of Walmart and Best Buy and the fights to score the big gifts…
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The new Amazon Echo Show is just one reason. (Photo: Amazon)

3 Reasons Why 2018 Is the Year of the Smart Home

The year 2018 is expected to be the year of the smart home — the year consumers finally embrace the true smart home movement — and there's good reason to see why. LED bulbs are coming down in price…
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Modshop will exhibit for the first time at this January’s Las Vegas Market.

5 Reasons to Say "Viva Las Vegas Market"

Forget about Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Clean Sleeping” regimen; most of us just need sleep and more of it—with or without an $80 copper pillowcase. A solid eight hours of shuteye helps improve memory and…
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(Photo: Seigle’s Cabinet Center)

Share of Showroom

Rent takes a big bite out of profits, but what if there was a way to cut that expense and generate new business in the process? Opening your showroom up to a complementary business generates a number…
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Amazon's newest furniture brands are available online.

Amazon's New Furniture Brands and What They Mean for Your Showroom

After months of speculation and a few trade market appearances, Amazon officially entered the furniture game this month with the launch of two new private label brands, Rivet and Stone & Beam.…
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Photo: Jurgen Appelo via Flickr

How to Personalize Your Marketing Emails

The latest research shows that customers want personalization from businesses, but personalization doesn't start when a consumer goes to the lighting or furniture showroom. Now it starts online. To…
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Food and products and workshops! Oh, my! Mayer Lighting Showroom’s annual holiday open house has a little something for everyone on its list.

6 Tips for Throwing the Best Holiday Open House

From Pumpkin Spice Lattes to LED-powered sweaters to radio stations that play all holiday music all the time, it doesn’t take much to send people into a festive frenzy. Lighting showrooms across the…
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Today's home's are collected, meaning they combine items from chains, family heirlooms and products from showrooms like Consort, pictured above.

At Home Today

In this issue, we’re diving into the topic of “today’s homes,” tackling how we live in this day and age and the products that help us do so.   In gathering content for the issue, I was pleasantly…
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Consumers expect more personalization for businesses online and in-store. Could your team help choose the right wall art for this dining room from Classic Home?

New Study Shows Personalization Matters

The easiest way to turn away a customer is to frustrate them, and it sounds like a lot of customers are frustrated with retailers. According to the 2017 State of Personalization report from customer…
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What's scarier than a ghost or goblin? How about tax reform? (Photo: aboblist.com via Flickr)

Tackling the Scary Topic of Tax Reform

On Halloween, it seems fitting to talk about a topic that everyone seems to fear and dread: taxes. In May, tax reform was the next topic House and Senate Republicans planned to tackle after…
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