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The A+ flooring products of 2023

Floor Covering News

In flooring, retailers hand out accolades for their top products. Floor Covering News ’ annual feature—Retailers Reveal A+ Products from 2023—includes a dozen outstanding performers in flooring. Floor Covering News ’ annual feature—Retailers Reveal A+ Products from 2023—includes a dozen outstanding performers in flooring.

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Flooring retailers prove naysayers wrong once again

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And yet, flooring retailers thumbed their noses at the prognosticators, defying the naysayers with a winning game plan that included selling higher-end goods/larger tickets to offset a weakened residential remodel market. A case in point is Tulsa, Okla.-based Higher average invoices powered Ted’s Floors & Beyond, Anniston, Ala.

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Dealers descend on Surfaces with a purpose

Floor Covering News

Penny Carnino, director of operations for Grigsby’s Carpet, Tile & Hardwood in Tulsa, Okla., Her journey through Mandalay Bay Convention Center is a familiar one, as hundreds of flooring professionals make the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas to be where the action is—the one flooring show where the industry’s movers and shakers convene.

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Winning at Retail 2023

Floor Covering News

In fact, many successful flooring retailers know when to turn away business, even telling potential customers that they might be better served going elsewhere. What can I do to help you narrow down your selections?’” —TRAVIS CARLSON, Carlson’s Flooring America, Fort Myers, Fla. Have you installed any new flooring in your showroom?

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What retailers had to say about Surfaces 2022

Floor Covering News

Las Vegas—Undaunted by the continuing presence of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant, flooring retailers who trekked to Las Vegas for Surfaces 2022 say they were happy to have made the trip. I accomplished all I needed to and could have used a couple more hours on the show floor. Susan Hadinger, Hadinger Flooring, Naples, Fla.

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Are Amazon, Wayfair a threat to specialty retail?

Floor Covering News

Despite maintaining extensive product selections, logistics hubs and customer service centers, Amazon and Wayfair appear to be flying under the radar in the residential flooring business. Online vendors continue to change the way consumers shop for home goods, including flooring.

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How retailers embrace the ‘new normal’

Floor Covering News

” For several flooring retailers, these are the first words now found at the top of their websites following the COVID-19 outbreak. many of the measures flooring dealers implemented during the early days remain in effect. Flooring dealers wasted no time utilizing technology to bring people back to the stores.

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