City Furniture, Tamarac, Fla.
Home Accents Today’s Retail Stars list recognizes independent brick-and-mortar retailers of home accents – including furniture stores, home accessories boutique stores and interior design showrooms – that merchandise creatively, have a positive presence in their local communities and stand out from the competition.
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City Furniture
Tamarac, Fla.
20 stores
cityfurniture.com
Furniture specialist, founded in 1971 as Waterbed City. Changed to City Furniture in 1994. Attends High Point Market, Las Vegas Market, and various international shows. Merchandises showroom by lifestyle, with smaller vignettes within that lifestyle that represent the latest styles and trends. Works directly with suppliers and factories to ensure products are what consumers want. Best retail idea has been creating the City Marketplace, which is a home accents destination experience that allows consumers to find something across all styles and price points.
In their own words
What sets your store apart from others in your market?
We are focused on providing our customers with the best quality products, at excellent values. We develop a large portion of our line directly with suppliers/factories, to ensure we are creating the products our customers want. In our larger format showrooms, we have integrated City Marketplaces (our home accent store, within our showrooms), KC Wine Bar & Cafes, & Outlets. These additions have continued to engage our customers, by enriching their in-store experience.”
What is the best retail idea you have ever implemented that helped improve your sales/profits?
Our best retail idea implemented to improve our home accent sales/profits, is our City Marketplace. The launch of the City Marketplace has begun to transform our business to be known as a destination for home accents. Similarly to our showrooms, our City Marketplace is merchandised by lifestyle, including all home accent classifications, allowing our customers to identify their style and seamlessly shop any home accents needs they may have. We refresh the product line seasonally to bring in fashion forward colors and styles, so our customers can update their homes at amazing values.”
Thomas Lester is Digital/Managing Editor for Home Accents Today. A graduate of Emory & Henry College’s Mass Communications program, Lester spent a dozen years working for newspapers in Virginia and North Carolina covering an array of subjects, ranging from community news, government, education, ACC sports, professional baseball and more before joining Home Accents Today in 2013. Reach out to me with your story ideas, tips and more at tlester@homeaccentstoday.com.
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