In tightening home furnishings market, market share leaders Wayfair and IKEA are set to collide. Wayfair is opening stores and IKEA is expanding online and remote sales.
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Ikea Cancels Its Catalog, Breaking a Vital Link in the Customer Journey
As 2020 draws to a close, every retailer is ready to close the books on this most disruptive of years. Ikea is quite literally closing its books. It is ending the 70-year run of its iconic catalog. The Ikea catalog will be relegated to a museum, where it becomes a nostalgic reminder of days gone […]
In a Post-Covid World, Every Retailer Must Find Its ‘Essential’
As in Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities, when we write the story of retail in 2020 it is going to be the best of times for one group of retailers – those deemed essential – and the worst of times for others – non-essential retailers. Two new studies, one from IBM projecting retail through year-end […]
