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.
4 Ways to Improve Your Instagram Stories
With more than 300 million people using Instagram stories each day, the platform has a significant marketing potential for any business. More than 2 million businesses are active on Instagram stories…
Sit With This: Accent Chairs for Every Room
So much of home decor is about blending in. We set the stage with the perfect paint colors and floor coverings. We orchestrate a lighting design that will appear seamless and unobtrusive. The sofa…
Retail Road Trip: Dallas
Coco & Dash
The new year brought more rocky news for the retail industry. Toys R Us announced it would close nearly one fifth of its stores in North America. JC Penney also quietly announced…
4 Tasks to Accomplish Before You Arrive at the Spring High Point Market
Anyone who's ever been to High Point Market knows that the best intentions often fall through. You may have plans to visit 10 showrooms, but in reality, you can really only make it to four of them.…
Be an Expert: How to Build Customer Relationships By Being an Online Resource
Every day, your sales associates help customers find products, explain warranties and answer questions of all types, and while your customer service may be exceptional in-store, that doesn't mean…
How to Use Instagram Stories in Your Digital Marketing Strategy
When Instagram stories first debuted in 2016, the reaction among many app users seemed lukewarm. We already had Snapchat, the app that similarly lets users share disappearing photos and videos. But…
What Showrooms Should Know About Consumer Report's Research on Furniture Tip-overs
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), part of Consumer Reports (CR) which publishes news and research regarding product safety, news and developments for consumers, released new research…
Who to Watch Today
Welcome to Consumer Snapshot, where we dissect generational behaviors to help you sell your products and services more effectively. As a primer to what we’ll be covering in this department, we’ve…
Rattan To Me
There was a time when we loathed all things from the 70s. To be fair, the decade had its share of style busts. Raise your hand if images of shag carpet (in the bathroom), inflatable furniture and the…
The Shops Around the Corner
As high-end furniture stores across the country continue to dwindle in numbers — falling victim to everything from changing tastes and lifestyles to increasing competition online — small, inviting…