Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

From seeing new products to connecting with customers, dealers gave the show rave reviews and agreed there is nothing quite like Surfaces. I was really impressed with the new RevWood products from Mohawk. I also liked the new CraftedEdge bevel from Mannington and also the COREtec product with attached acoustic underlayment.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 15, 2023

We want customers to love the style and design of the products. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada MERCHANDISING Show more with less “At Westvalley Carpet & Flooring, we have made a practice of focusing on the quality brands and products that consumers are looking for. PAUL JOHNSON, Johnson Floor & Home Carpet One, Tulsa, Okla.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 30, 2021

Eric Wooten, Johnson Floor & Home Carpet One, Tulsa, Okla. There is a solid core group of people who are dealing with the customers on a daily basis, so when someone calls about her product, it is not, “Please hold so I can plug in your order number.” Follow up with the customer. Instead, it is: “Hey, Judy, absolutely.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 11, 2023

I saw the same product cheaper at the store down the street—can you match it?” That’s similar to the approach taken by sales representatives at Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile & Hardwood, Tulsa, Okla. We have found that if you engage the customer in conversation, most of the time the sale is yours if you have the product they like.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 30, 2022

With that as the draw, flooring retailers are expected to turn out in droves to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center to see the latest and greatest flooring products under one roof. DeGraaf said she typically reserves one day to wander the show and check out booths and products that it currently does not have in its portfolio.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

.” Nina LoCiero, vice president of marketing and digital commerce for Shaw’s residential division, commented that the Shaw space was an ideal example of how “we have reimagined product selection online and in store, with storytelling integrated into the experience. and Thursday at 2 p.m.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

These features include educational insights, new and staple hardwood products and a spotlight featuring one of the Coalition’s members. Case in point are the Hearthwood and American OEM lines—brands that were recently acquired by AHF Products. We always make sure we have Somerset products stocked in our warehouse.”.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 25, 2021

Cali’s SPC flooring products are designated as completely waterproof. The problem for retailers is this: what waterproof means to the consumer and what it means in regard to warranties are two entirely different things,” said Penny Carnino, COO at Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile & Hardwood in Tulsa, Okla. Pictured is the Longboards series.

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CUSTOM Insights Blog

MARCH 27, 2015

But for Jed Ballew, project architect with Kinslow, Keith & Todd in Tulsa, Oklahoma, there is still work to do. We design a wide variety of projects in the Tulsa metropolitan area, with a focus on education - especially early childhood education centers. I really enjoy it. The interior designers had a lot of fun with those spaces.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 28, 2020

“We just had a dealer in Minnesota who worked with a local bowling alley to install one of our click LVT products and get the space in tip top shape for its customers.” Commercial projects were also the saving grace for dealers like Tulsa, Okla.-based Product innovation provides crossover opportunities.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

My hope and expectation are to see some great new products and ideas that we can use over the next month as there should be pent-up demand that should be available to us all.”. Penny Carnino, COO of Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile & Hardwood, Tulsa, Okla., The discussions are more productive in general.

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The A to Z of Building

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

a leading manufacturer of heating and cooling products, breaks ground on new engineering research and development laboratory at the Tulsa manufacturing facility. AAON, Inc., The three-story 75,000.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 14, 2021

Penny Carnino, Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile & Hardwood, Tulsa, Okla. . My advice to my fellow women in management positions is to know your business, be knowledgeable about the products you sell and be fair. We all have a role to play, and we are stronger when we highlight each individual’s unique abilities.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 8, 2021

He lost seven days of production from the installation technicians and five days of sales because they were unable to open the store. “We The same was true for two Tulsa-based businesses—Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile and Hardwood and Johnson Floor & Home. Most of our business is for product that we install.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The top suppliers, many floor covering retailers agree, are the ones that help specialty retailers maintain healthy profit margins—especially in an extremely competitive environment inundated with so many me-too products jockeying for market share. They stand behind their products, they don’t play games with us. Engineered Floors.

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ISC Surfaces

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

ISC Surfaces is proud to announce that we now offer Florida Tile products in the state of Oklahoma! We look forward to bringing you great Florida Tile products delivered with the service you expect from ISC Surfaces. ISC CUSTOMER SERVICE: Tulsa 800.324.5036 Oklahoma City 800.942.3594'

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Business has still been good and [sales] are up 12%,” said Penny Carnino, director of operations at Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile & Hardwood, Tulsa, Okla. In this case, we have very specific protocols to ensure the customer’s expectations are met with product, color, etc., It’s difficult to get both product and people right now.”.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Some customers are understanding about the [delayed back orders]; some are not,” said Penny Carnino, COO, Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile & Hardwood, Tulsa, Okla. Consumers have mostly learned to live with certain product shortages and overall delays because the supply chain impacts all consumer goods categories, not just flooring.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 29, 2021

Now, I know to look at the product back here on the display.’ We’ve got digital in there that we’re going to continue to build on to connect it for them, but it’s giving them design ideas and helping them narrow down the selection of the product.”. For instance, one fixture in the showroom features mainly high-margin products.

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Focus Floors and Furnishings

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Focus Floors has made it a priority to make our carpet tile products available to everyone in the continental US. As a company, we work with our freight carriers to find the best possible prices on getting our products to our consumers. As you can imagine, there are many shipping options available today. Brooklyn, NY. Baltimore, MD.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 9, 2020

“We just had a dealer in Minnesota who worked with a local bowling alley to install one of our click LVT products and get the space in tip-top shape for its customers.”. Commercial projects were also the saving grace for dealers like Tulsa, Okla.-based At Mannington, LVT continues to be the fastest growing product in this segment.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 9, 2022

Grigsby’s Carpet Tile & Hardwood, Tulsa, Okla. There are some strictly branding ads that we do that show pictures and remind people that we do free estimates, then there are also product promotional ads as well. Penny Carnino. Digital branding seems to get more important every day.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 12, 2021

Millennials are making a name for themselves in the flooring game, taking the lead on everything from marketing to retail ownership to product design. Some of the roles include accounting, logistics, product development, marketing, HR, sales and operations. CEO, Johnson Hardwood. He was promoted to CEO in February 2020. Meredith Hafer.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Being waterproof is—and should be—enough to sell the product,” said Rob Elder, co-owner of Hiller’s Flooring America, Rochester, Minn. Waterproof definitely resonates with consumers when you add the talking points of kids and pets again—they are all in,” said Penny Carnino, COO of Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile & Hardwood, Tulsa, Okla.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 16, 2021

Lauren Voit, president, said managing the store’s new leads is like drinking from a fire hose—they can barely keep up as more consumers continue to purchase “higher-quality products and even luxury lines.”. All in all, he said these customers tend to look for more sophisticated, higher-end products. Arnette is not alone.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 4, 2022

Domestic suppliers are seizing the opportunity to tout their local production capabilities in the face of rapidly rising freight charges amid longer shipping times. We also have more confidence that these products will meet back-order dates—unlike the imported materials that are sitting at port with no accurate timetable for arrival.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 11, 2022

Quinn—Retail sales associates (RSAs) should thoroughly understand their store’s products and services and come across as knowledgeable and professional—that’s a no-brainer. Our sales professionals are thoroughly trained on every product that hits the sales floor. receive weekly training on all products sold by the store.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Interior One, Tulsa, Okla. They line up to be one of the 10-15 products that we select to be a part of the event, so we have to be very picky and make sure that we are spreading the opportunities around evenly among the companies that we work with.”. Other than that, I am not doing much to reinvent the wheel.”. GO BIG OR GO HOME.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 2, 2020

2, because flooring is an infrequent purchase, most consumers don’t know the price of these waterproof products and therefore would be less likely to balk at incremental increases. For Tulsa, Okla.-based There are at least two factors at play here: No. 1, manufacturers have not passed on the entire cost to retailers; and No.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Christina Smith and Palmer Johnson “We were pretty much best friends when we were children,” said Christina Smith, director of outside sales, Johnson Floor & Home, Tulsa, Okla. “We “You’d do anything for that person and you know without question they’d do the same for you.” We were partners in crime.”

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