Thomas Lester

The added space will allow it to boost operations and enhance the customer experience as it creates room for more products.

The store, the growing Top 100 retailer's easternmost, features a large showroom as well as a clearance center.

The 950-square-meter store is the Ashley licensee's seventh in the region and represents growth in a new area.

The celebrity designer told conference attendees brick-and-mortar stores owe it to themselves and their locales to be something more than stores. If they do it well, their communities will reward them.

After trudging through nearly two years of slow and sub-par sales, the month of November and the holiday season reversed those trends in a big way, with a significant boom in business.

Four of the 10 retail sales associates who received awards at the Furniture Today Leadership Conference offered insight as to what makes them their store’s superstars.

When it opens in early 2025, it will be the third showroom for the eastern Ohio retailer, which opens up a new market for business.

The Retail Sales Awards recognize outstanding retail sales associates in the furniture industry and celebrate individuals whose exceptional performance has signifiicantly contributed to their store’s success. Honorees will be recognized at this year’s Furniture Today Leadership Conference.

The Top 100 retailer's newest showroom is a 100,000-square-foot space that previously housed Bed Bath & Beyond and Stein Mart.

The Top 100 retailer doubled down on experiential features and other extras in its new Somerville, Mass. flagship location.