home furnishings

Settling Into Sofas On Subscription
Settling Into Sofas On Subscription
January 15, 2020  |  Retail

Millennial consumers are a mobile group – according to data analysis by FiveThirtyEight, the average millennial makes 12 moves between moving out of their parents’ home at...

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How Furniture Fuels AR And Other Retail Innovations
How Furniture Fuels AR And Other Retail Innovations
December 09, 2019  |  Retail

Everyone needs furniture and home furnishings, and that need is helping to drive innovation in that sector of the retail economy. Among the latest examples...

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Walmart Launches New Home Collection With Drew Barrymore
Walmart Launches New Home Collection With Drew Barrymore
March 29, 2019  |  Retail

Walmart and actress Drew Barrymore have announced the launch of Drew Barrymore Flower Home. The line is exclusively available on Walmart’s family of sites, including...

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Rent The Runway, West Elm And The Oversharing Economy
Rent The Runway, West Elm And The Oversharing Economy
March 08, 2019  |  Retail

Millennials, we’ve often been told, are a generation of renters, as opposed to buyers. Maybe it was all the early childhood focus on sharing that...

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Rent The Runway Takes Rental Business Model To Home Goods
Rent The Runway Takes Rental Business Model To Home Goods
March 07, 2019  |  Retail

To help customers rent home goods such as linens, throw pillows and blankets, Rent the Runway is teaming up with West Elm. Through the tie-up,...

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Walmart’s Allswell Launches Tiny Home Concept
Walmart’s Allswell Launches Tiny Home Concept
February 07, 2019  |  Retail

Walmart‘s online home brand Allswell has announced the launch of its Tiny Home retail concept. Released last year, the design-centric, digitally-focused brand boasts a line of...

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Chairish CEO: What High-End Furniture eTail Can Learn From Designer Clothing’s eFoibles
Chairish CEO: What High-End Furniture eTail Can Learn From Designer Clothing’s eFoibles
January 16, 2019  |  Retail

Chairish Inc., the San Francisco-based parent company of high-end vintage furniture site Chairish and interior designer-focused online marketplace DECASO, today (Jan. 16) added a new brand to its family: Dering...

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Walmart Rivals Google With Visual Search Tech
Walmart Rivals Google With Visual Search Tech
December 19, 2018  |  Retail

Walmart is testing out its own in-house visual search technology through Hayneedle, the home furnishings retailer it obtained through its acquisition of Jet.com in 2016. The...

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How Clothing Stores Are Driving Retail Innovation
How Clothing Stores Are Driving Retail Innovation
October 18, 2018  |  Retail

To learn more about their customers and increase foot traffic, retailers are testing out new business ideas. Clothing stores, in particular, are trying out new...

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