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Ambrose Furniture finds success, resilience at the North Carolina coast

Third-generation Outer Banks retailer’s three locations each serve different needs in the marketplace KITTY HAWK, N.C. – The temperature may have cooled in the furniture …

Furniture First hosts performance group

Middletown, Pa. — Shortly after the April High Point Market Furniture First hosted a meeting of one of their members-only performance groups, Performance 1st Beta at …

Shorter hours lead to better business for BiltRite Furniture

Sundays with families, no nights and no turning back for the Milwaukee retailer, even post-Covid GREENFIELD, Wis. — For years, furniture retailers have been hearing …

Tanger’s Furniture joins Furniture First

MIDDLETOWN, PA —Furniture First added Tanger’s Furniture of Bellefontaine, Ohio to its membership ranks last month. Founded in 1946, Tanger’s Furniture was purchased by Brian …

Darbys’ celebrates 115th anniversary

“All roads lead to Darbys’” is a slogan well-known in Texoma. Heard on television and radio and seen on our familiar billboards and delivery trucks, …

Are the best days behind us?

American Furniture Warehouse’s CEO says inflation, the end of stimulus money and a tight housing supply are all playing into a slowdown in consumer demand …

Darseys Furniture celebrates 135th anniversary

GRAPELAND, Texas — Celebrations are underway for Darseys Furniture’s 135 Anniversary, marking it as one of the oldest continually operated businesses in Texas. The store …

AFW’s Jason Fletcher talks challenges and opportunities for independents

NASHVILLE — While Home News Now was unable to attend Nationwide Marketing Group’s PrimeTime event here last month, we asked the furniture, electronics and appliance …

Blog: How to keep those customer reviews coming (and positive)

Years ago when online business reviews became more prevalent, retailers were told how important it was to get customers to leave reviews and how reviews could affect their business. That’s still just as important today, but I recently came across two statistics that are going to complicate how online reviews work altogether: 86% of consumers only pay attention to reviews from the last 90 days, and 73% of consumers only pay attention to reviews written in the last month.