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Home News Now Editor Alex Milstein visits Kait Warren, Telescope Casual’s marketing director, and Boaz Ashkenazy, CEO of Simply Augmented, in Telescope’s new Linkroom virtual showroom.

Loves Furniture & Mattresses filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Wednesday and is preparing to liquidate its remaining stores.

Rent-A-Center announced plans to acquire virtual lease-to-own company Acima Holdings in a $1.65 billion deal expected to propel its Preferred Lease business past $2 billion in annual revenues and its overall revenue past $4 billion.

Therapedic International’s CEO says the pandemic has opened eyes to both the value and under-utilization of market showrooms.

Loves Furniture & Mattresses will close a dozen stores early next year, consolidating its footprint down to 13 stores primarily in its core Detroit and Grand Rapids, Mich., markets.

The Florida retailer will build a massive distribution center and open 3-4 stores in the market as it enters its largest ever expansion phase.

RH may have no peers, but there’s hope for the furniture industry in its upbeat outlook and take on well-executed stores.

Steve Silver Co. was hit by ransomware in August and has one recommendation for the growing number of home furnishings operations at risk of attack: seek expert help now.