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America's shopping spree is over and retailers are facing a new world of cautious consumers
76% of consumers said they planned to trade down in the next quarter, spelling trouble for the weak…
Jennifer Sor
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Furniture flippers are getting roasted online for painting vintage wood pieces 'millennial gray'
Influencers who paint over midcentury modern wood furniture with white or "millennial gray" are rut…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Ikea was losing 60,000 employees a year. Here's how the retailer worked to fix its staff turnover problem.
Ikea tackled high employee turnover rates by increasing wages and offering workers more flexibility…
Erin Snodgrass
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It's not just you — furniture is garbage these days. Here's what you can do about it.
The quality of mass-market furniture in the US has plummeted, but designers and sellers say consume…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Online furniture brand Pepperfry registers Rs 188 cr losses in FY23
Online furniture brand Pepperfry registered Rs 188 crore in losses in FY23, down just 3 per cent fr…
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Sports goods, furniture and shoes lead India’s retail growth this festive season: RAI
A survey by the Retailers Association of India (RAI) indicates that in July 2022, retail busines…
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One unintended consequence of the unaffordable housing market: Crashing furniture sales
Furniture retailers like Williams-Sonoma and RH have reported weak earnings amid a two-decade high …
Phil Rosen
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Macy's and Wayfair start the year off with layoffs. Here are the major retailers making cuts in 2024.
Macy's, Wayfair, and Stitch Fix have all recently announced layoffs in the retail sector.
Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins
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Wayfair crashes 31% as the online furniture retailer says it lost more than 5 million customers last year and posts wider quarterly loss
Wayfair, like other retailers, saw a boom in customers during the height of the pandemic. Now that …
Carla Mozée
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The biggest challenge for furniture retailers now is less about long shipping times and more about unpredictable schedules
"A 20-day transit would be somewhere around 65 days, then it's 35. And then it's back to 80," one i…
Dominick Reuter
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Ikea is making it easier to buy its famous budget-friendly furniture online
Ikea is spending over $3 billion to turn stores into delivery hubs, while opening smaller locations…
Mary Meisenzahl
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Furniture shipments are still delayed due to a foam shortage that's slowly improving - as long as car production doesn't ramp back up
Consumer demand for products that include foam, like couches and mattresses, remains so high that t…
Avery Hartmans
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Furniture shipping rates now equal the cost of the furniture itself as lead times continue to stretch on for months
The US imports tens of billions of dollars worth of furniture each year and the expense of getting …
Dominick Reuter
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New Jersey toddler orders nearly $2,000 worth of furniture from Walmart with mom's phone in online shopping spree
The toddler's mom told CNN she had placed more than a dozen chairs in her Walmart shopping cart but…
Kate Duffy
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Ikea is hiking its prices by nearly 10% as the supply chain crisis continues to disrupt its operations
The Swedish furniture maker has built a reputation for selling goods at lower prices than other ret…
Stephen Jones
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Vintage home decor sellers have quietly taken over Instagram during the pandemic: 'It's like doing a huge yard sale with all of your friends all the time online'
Sellers told Insider it's a nonstop job that requires hours on your phone, but said "things are jus…
Avery Hartmans
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These retailers are bucking the trend and opening stores in San Francisco despite the city's 'doom loop'
A number of high-profile retailers shut up shop in San Francisco recently, but others are opening n…
Tom Carter
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Ikea has warned of imminent price hikes amid rising costs and supply chain challenges
Ikea said it would be up to its franchisees to decide whether they wanted to pass on higher transpo…
Mary Hanbury
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Costco shoppers are continuing to cut back on big-ticket items, even as inflation falls, as Americans put off buying jewelry, laptops, and furniture
Customers aren't necessarily as receptive to price discounts as they used to be, Costco's CFO told …
Grace Dean
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Ikea says product shortages will last well into the summer of 2022
Ikea, the world's largest furniture retailer, is among the long list of retailers struggling with a…