Direct-to-consumer furniture brand Cozey has added Klarna’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions to its online stores in the United States and Canada. Cozey’s eCommerce site now enables shoppers to pay using Klarna’s Pay in Full, Pay in 4 or Financing for larger purchases, according...
IKEA has acquired logistics tech company Locus to capitalize on growing online sales. Ingka Group, the largest IKEA retailer, announced the deal Tuesday (Oct. 6), calling an investment to strengthen the furniture retailer’s digital capabilities. “In today’s retail landscape, customers expect a seamless home delivery,...
America’s furniture sellers could soon face additional tariffs on imports. Last week, President Donald Trump announced on social media that the government was probing furniture imports to the U.S., an investigation set to wrap up within 50 days. Tariffs could come “at a rate yet...
For Brian Morgan, owner of Couch Potatoes Furniture & Mattress Stores, standing out in a crowd is the company’s collective mission. On Saturday (Aug. 31), Couch Potatoes & Mattress Stores unveiled a pioneering retail and manufacturing concept in Austin, Texas. The company opened a 100,000-square-foot...
March 15, 2024
With mega-retailers Amazon and Walmart competing to secure consumers’ loyalty for high-ticket purchases such as furniture, the eCommerce giant is pulling further ahead by the quarter. This trend can be seen in the latest data from the PYMNTS Intelligence “Whole Paycheck Report” series, which estimates each of the two retailers’ market share in various categories […]
August 15, 2023
Retail sales keep on chugging along. To that end, the data released Tuesday (Aug. 15) by the Commerce Department showed that consumer spending, overall, remained strong against a backdrop where...
April 30, 2020
Retailing, like everything else in the business world, is falling into pre- and post-pandemic reference points. Many retail technologies have benefitted from that schism, among them augmented reality. Before the...
November 08, 2019
This a story about how a dubious, painful achievement — and we use “achievement” cautiously here — became a business plan, and one of the newer entries into the expanding...
February 19, 2026
The Supreme Court could rule on President Donald Trump’s tariffs any day now. However, the outcome of that case might make little difference to the struggling furniture industry, CNBC reported Thursday (Feb. 19). Furniture importers are dealing with steep tariffs on their products, with duties specific to their businesses of around 25%, the report said. These […]
December 02, 2025
Direct-to-consumer furniture brand Cozey has added Klarna’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions to its online stores in the United States and Canada. Cozey’s eCommerce site now enables shoppers to...
October 07, 2025
IKEA has acquired logistics tech company Locus to capitalize on growing online sales. Ingka Group, the largest IKEA retailer, announced the deal Tuesday (Oct. 6), calling an investment to strengthen...
August 26, 2025
America’s furniture sellers could soon face additional tariffs on imports. Last week, President Donald Trump announced on social media that the government was probing furniture imports to the U.S., an...