furnishing

3 min read Not long ago, it was unusual to see self-checkout (SCO) terminals in stores, but there has been  a rapid acceleration in SCO adoption recently and shipments of SCO terminals increased

2 min read Consumer tastes are very personal and that’s definitely the case when shopping for furniture and home décor. To differentiate themselves from the competition, retailers in this sector need to look

< 1 min read In the early days of eCommerce, buying furniture online was not common and it was the retail category that seemed most resistant to the online tsunami.  But the adoption of omnichannel strategies over

2 min read With over 12,000 products in its famous catalog, IKEA must rely on business integration technology to optimize and manage their merchandise efficiently online and across its 400 stores. But even

2 min read Spanish textile brand Bassols has a unique heritage that goes back two centuries and is possibly the oldest surviving textile company in the world. But it faced a problem common

3 min read Before IKEA erupted on the market in the 1980’s,  furniture and home decor was not a very dynamic  part of retailing.  Furniture was often inherited or bought only when people