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Retailers take the initiative on training

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In our industry the two biggest challenges are the ones that take the highest skill sets, which is carpet and ceramic tile,” explained Don Roberts, president/CEO. You can’t teach everybody how to power stretch carpet or [find someone] who can deal with Axminsters and Wiltons, which is a lot of what we are installing these days. “If

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NFA spring conference: Business is booming

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David Chambers, Nebraska Furniture Mart; and A.J. If we’re leaders in retail, leadership isn’t looking how to get our business back to the way it was before COVID-19, it’s where you want to be: being dynamic and changing your business fast enough for those changes that are out there. Boyajian, A.J.