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1.5KRetailRetail Pulse: IKEA Axes New Store Plans To Focus On Digital Store
IKEA is slowing the growth pace it has sustained in the U.S. market, axing plans for new stores in three U.S. cities...
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2.1KRetailIKEA Cancels Planned Stores Amid Focus On eCommerce
Following years of U.S. growth, IKEA is reining in its brick-and-mortar expansion efforts: The furniture retailer cancelled planned stores in North Carolina, Tennessee...
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2.2KAmazon DeliveryAmazon Takes Tough Stance On Returns
Remember that old saying, “You break it, you bought it?” A tweak on that might read: “You click on it, you bought...
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1.7KRetailIKEA Rolls Out Rewards Credit Card
Following moves by Amazon and Uber, IKEA is rolling out its own branded credit card. The new Visa card will offer 5...
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3.8KSafety and SecurityTaskRabbit Takes Website, App Down After Computer Hack
TaskRabbit — the freelancer marketplace owned by IKEA, the Swedish furniture retailer — has been the victim of a hack that prompted...
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2.3KRetailIKEA Unveils Smart-Speaker Line
Continuing its foray into smart-home devices, IKEA is rolling out four smart speakers dubbed Eneby. The launch, however, is the company’s first...
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4.9KRetailBeyond The Buzzword: Harnessing Platforms’ Real Power
Two decades ago, talk of platforms was mostly centered around software, often by academics and engineers in highly technical settings. Today, the...
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2.3KRetailIKEA’s New CFO’s Strategy To Compete With Amazon
To evolve with changing shopping habits, IKEA has announced plans to keep up with or increase its heavy level of investment in...
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4.2KRetaileBay Plans New Augmented Reality Features
eCommerce marketplace eBay will add new augmented reality (AR) features this year to make shopping on its site more engaging. As a result,...
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5.5KRetailIKEA Tests Furniture Rentals
To reach more consumers and foster more eco-friendly operations, IKEA is testing out renting its furniture offerings in Japan, Curbed reported Wednesday (Jan....
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4.0KRetail
IKEA Looks Toward A Future With AI
When it comes to planning for its future, furniture giant IKEA is trying to figure out how to use artificial intelligence (AI)...
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4.5KRetailIKEA Gamifies Store Openings With VR
IKEA has already done some early work to embrace augmented reality in its brick-and-mortar stores. Through a recent design collaboration with Wavemaker,...
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4.5KRetailBringing ‘Try Before You Buy’ To Interior Design
It looked great in the store, but it didn’t look so great when it got home. It’s a problem all consumers face,...
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4.1KRetail
IKEA Explores New ‘Open-Source’ Design And ‘Co-Create IKEA’ Options
In retail news, Scandinavian home furnishings chain IKEA has announced plans to test full-range showrooms and an “open-source” design, according to reports...
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3.7KPartnerships / AcquisitionsTaskRabbit Acquisition Is Latest Move In Ikea’s Digital Strategy
TaskRabbit, the contract labor marketplace startup known and loved within the gig economy, has been purchased by Swedish home goods giant Ikea....
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3.9KRetailIKEA ARKit App Lets Shoppers Virtually Try Before They Buy
Augmented reality (AR) is making itself right at home in the home furnishing retail space. IKEA, the Swedish home goods giant, has...
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4.7KAppleIKEA Moves Into AR Furniture With Apple Partnership
Following its Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple has another announcement. The tech giant recently shared its new partnership with IKEA and is moving forward...
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Retail
IKEA Offers New Parents Up To Four Months Of Leave
Swedish company IKEA is known for its innovative furniture, but it’s adding a paid parental leave policy to that innovation. The furniture and...
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4.2KRetailIKEA, Getting Experimental And The Power Of The Pop-Up
It is known as the “IKEA effect,” and actual scientific study has been dedicated to it. However, even a non-scientist can watch...
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3.4KRetailIKEA’s Pop-Up Restaurants
Forget Swedish meatballs and beef stroganoff, IKEA is getting into the pop-up restaurant game. The trendy home furnishings retailer is planning to...
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4.4KRetail
IKEA Moves To Up Quality
As it turns out, the consumer aesthetic around fast fashion does not extend to furniture. Consumers are not looking for temporary furniture,...
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5.1KRetail
Ikea Pushes The Digitally Enhanced Pop-Up Store
Ikea is probably not the go-to brand for most consumers when they hear the word high-tech. Swedish meatballs? Sure. DIY furniture? Check....
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5.9KRetail
IKEA Pilots QR Code-Based Mobile Checkout
Mobile payments, particularly in physical locations, have a tendency to fall into the category of solutions in search of a problem to...
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Retail
When Retail Fraud Is An Inside Job
The traditional view of cybercrime is that it is conducted by shadowy figures far removed from the businesses they attack. But, as...
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3.6KRetail
IKEA Thinks Consumers Have Hit ‘Peak Stuff’ (And That They Can Work Around That)
IKEA’s chief sustainability officer Steve Howard has an interesting idea for a man in the business of selling people stuff, namely that...
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Merchant Innovation
IKEA Will Trial New Smaller Store Format In UK
IKEA, the world’s largest furniture retailer, is planning to trial a smaller format store in the U.K. in an effort to reach more...
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News
Ikea To Boost Online Sales
Ikea wants the online share of its sales to grow from almost nothing to 20 percent by 2020, and the retailer is...
