Bed Bath & Beyond is apparently looking to grow, well, beyond its big box status, as it went shopping for a furniture and decor company and wound up scooping up home retailer One Kings Lane. [More]
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IKEA Is Testing Small Pick-Up Point Stores In Canada
I live in a smaller metropolitan area where people often whine that we have to drive more than two hours each way to visit an IKEA store. What if we didn’t, though? What if cities too small to support a mammoth IKEA of their own had small stores with some retail offerings, where they could pick up their online orders of flat-pack furniture themselves? The chain of mega-stores announced this week that they’re trying that idea out in Canada. [More]
We Take the IKEA Catalogue to the Bathroom and Lock the Door
The new IKEA catalogue is here. Oooh. Touch it. Glossy. Slidey. Smells like snow.