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Winning at Retail 2023

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We want customers to love the style and design of the products. RYAN COMMERCE, Indoor City of Lancaster, Lancaster, Pa. BOBBY MERIDETH, Flooring America OKC, Oklahoma City, Okla. Listen to your employees, to your installers, to your customers, to your sales reps, to other dealers and so forth.

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Flooring retailers pushed to embrace artificial intelligence

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Bobby Merideth, owner of Flooring America OKC, Oklahoma City, is one of the more tech-savvy flooring retailers; yet, he is taking a cautious approach to AI as well, admitting, “As much as I employ the use of technology within our company, I have been late—and very resistant—to use AI.” Floor Coverings, San Jose, Calif.

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Retailers React: What surprised you in 2022

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We are only off 9% on the retail sales—very encouraging as we had record growth of 45% in 2021. – Brian McCarver, Brian’s Flooring & Design Birmingham, Ala. Our monthly sales have remained strong, but due to the inflationary costs the margins have decreased. I never want to go backwards but last year was amazing.

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Daltile makes a bold ‘Statement’

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the showroom-within-a-showroom concept serves as a destination within a store and is designed to increase profitability for dealers and simplify the shopping experience for consumers. Patrick Warren, vice president of residential sales, put it in perspective: “When you’re shopping within the 2.0 Dubbed Statements 2.0,

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CCA members extol virtues of Retail 2.0 system

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CCA retailers saw 2023 numbers come down a bit from the previous year, albeit sales are up 10% from 2019, the last “normal” business year before the pandemic. I had a customer who took a few minutes to find the sample she liked, which happened to be the most expensive sample in the showroom, and it turned into a $6,000 sale.

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Flooring retailers see path to victory in 2024

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Most retailers concur with Rick Ogle, CEO of Brewer Flooring Group, Oklahoma City, who said he would gladly take 2023’s results in 2024. “My whose business has achieved record sales four years in a row. Rebecca Tonowski of BFC Flooring & Design Centre takes a photo of one of her recent design layouts.

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Time2Design: Outdoor Living | My GenX Design Studios Presentation

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Outdoor Living | My GenX Design Studios Presentation. As one of eight designers selected to participate in the KBIS Design Studios , I was asked to design a Outdoor Living Space for a hypothetical Generation X client and I would like to share that design with you here. 0^_VW]+4U#T^",SLR$D,^0. Outdoor drapery.

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