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.
Cossart Design Markets Main Street
Located in historic downtown Perry, GA, just off Interstate 75, Cossart Design sits among the boutiques and restaurants on the town’s main drag.
Trish Cossart, the company’s founder and principal…
Setting Customer Expectations
As we came into 2021, with coronavirus still around and new, more contagious variants, I finally made the move to curbside grocery pickup. I was hesitant in this change, even though I’d heard…
IMC Market Snapshot Highlights High Point Introductions
International Market Centers (IMC) has announced that its Spring High Point Market Snapshot program will expand its weekly showcase of home furnishings product introductions to include nine special…
Neighborhood Networking for Home Furnishings Retailers
You’re a brick-and-mortar home furnishings or lighting retailer. Your primary customer base is relatively local. Some of the most effective ways to market to your customers and potential customers…
How Augmented Reality Can Enhance Your E-Commerce User Experience
The coronavirus pandemic has made consumers more judicious about leaving their homes, which means e-commerce is more important now than ever before. Consumers are shopping with purpose, often doing…
7 Tips for Considering E-commerce at Retail
With more than a year of consumers adapting to purchasing online and delivery or curbside pickup as a result of COVID-19, if you haven’t yet added e-commerce, now is the time to be considering this…
Christina Henck Banks on Design With New Retail Space
Necessity is the mother of invention — and growth — as in the case of Christina Henck, founder of Henck Design, which now incorporates a new home furnishings retail showroom in Philadelphia. “I would…
NRF: Holiday Retail Sales Expected to See Growth Over 2019
With retail sales rebounding strongly due to continued consumer resilience, the National Retail Federation has forecast that holiday sales during November and December will increase between 3.6…
COVID-19 Holiday Retail Strategies
Business analysts anticipate several ways holiday retail will be different this year. Shoppers, for example, likely won’t wait until Black Friday as the start of the holiday buying season in an…
Tips for Last Mile Delivery
Much has been written about the importance of the final mile in successfully (and profitably) completing a furniture sale. Delivering big-ticket products of large size and unusual shapes and…