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How AI Image Generation Is Reshaping Home Furnishings

In a business where visual storytelling is everything, furniture retailers and manufacturers are increasingly turning to AI image generation to improve how they work and sell. While AI has made headlines for writing content or

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The OBBBA Breakdown: What the New Act Means for Furniture Retailers

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Meet Evoneer: The AI Platform Built for Retailers

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How to Reduce Returns and Improve CSAT with AI

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Understanding Retail Data

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Elevate the Customer Experience with Tech That Converts

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How 3D Planner Data Can Spot Winning Product Before It Sells

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Boost Profits with 3D Content Creation & Smart Workflows

Omni channel marketing coccept. Seamless integration of various channels, social media, email, physical stores to create a unified customer experience. Reach customers through multiple touchpiont

Transforming Furniture Retail: Unlock Growth and Efficiency with Unified Commerce

Lady holding a bag in a store for a refund.

How to Reduce Returns and Improve CSAT with AI

Retailer using electronic devices for store customer data to gain customer insight in order to create marketing campaign that can help to increase sale and identify potential customer

Understanding Retail Data

Female in home taking picture of her sofa. Created by Freepik.com

Elevate the Customer Experience with Tech That Converts

Female on sofa looking at furniture on ipad. Image created by Freepik.com.

How 3D Planner Data Can Spot Winning Product Before It Sells

3D pictures of furniture on a computer screen.

Boost Profits with 3D Content Creation & Smart Workflows

Omni channel marketing coccept. Seamless integration of various channels, social media, email, physical stores to create a unified customer experience. Reach customers through multiple touchpiont

Transforming Furniture Retail: Unlock Growth and Efficiency with Unified Commerce

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HFA-QCS - Creating Loyal Customers

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3 Steps to Improve Your OmniChannel Experience

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The Future of Home Furnishings Retail with Todd Wanek
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Digital Marketing

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Using List-Based Advertising to Boost Sales

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How Social Influencers Shape Furniture Buying Decisions

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How Tech & Consumer Behavior Will Shape the Future of Retail Marketing

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Using List-Based Advertising to Boost Sales

Social media influencer recording videos on his phone about interior design

How Social Influencers Shape Furniture Buying Decisions

Human Resources

Reducing costs at one point entails a failure and a decrease in work efficiency. Cutting spendings. Optimization of costs. Budget cuts, tough economy. Inflation.

How Healthcare Solutions Can Help Offset Rising Costs

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Managing Remote Employees Successfully: Pro Tips for Retail Leaders

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Retaining Employees is Knowing What They Truly Value

Reducing costs at one point entails a failure and a decrease in work efficiency. Cutting spendings. Optimization of costs. Budget cuts, tough economy. Inflation.

How Healthcare Solutions Can Help Offset Rising Costs

Smiling young African American woman sitting at desk working on laptop taking notes .

Managing Remote Employees Successfully: Pro Tips for Retail Leaders

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eCommerce

Living room in modern house overlooking the view

How AI Image Generation Is Reshaping Home Furnishings

Female in home taking picture of her sofa. Created by Freepik.com

Elevate the Customer Experience with Tech That Converts

Female on sofa looking at furniture on ipad. Image created by Freepik.com.

How 3D Planner Data Can Spot Winning Product Before It Sells

Living room in modern house overlooking the view

How AI Image Generation Is Reshaping Home Furnishings

Female in home taking picture of her sofa. Created by Freepik.com

Elevate the Customer Experience with Tech That Converts

Sales

Living room in modern house overlooking the view

How AI Image Generation Is Reshaping Home Furnishings

Evoneer graphic showing AI search

Meet Evoneer: The AI Platform Built for Retailers

Lady holding a bag in a store for a refund.

How to Reduce Returns and Improve CSAT with AI

Living room in modern house overlooking the view

How AI Image Generation Is Reshaping Home Furnishings

Evoneer graphic showing AI search

Meet Evoneer: The AI Platform Built for Retailers

Supply Chain

Todd Wanek Tackles Tariffs, Supply Chains, and U.S. Manufacturing

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4/10/25 Update: Tariffs Pause and Supply Chain Disruption

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Optimize Supply Chains and Streamline Operations with NetSuite

Todd Wanek Tackles Tariffs, Supply Chains, and U.S. Manufacturing

Reciprocal Tariffs And Stock Market Crash and economic drop or declining stock market prices due to global tariff wars as inflation and economic decline as a 3D illustration

4/10/25 Update: Tariffs Pause and Supply Chain Disruption

Policy Matters

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The OBBBA Breakdown: What the New Act Means for Furniture Retailers

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Advocacy Update: Week Ending 6.27.25

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6/5/25 Trade Update: Relief, Rulings, and Rising Tariffs

One Big Beautiful Bill Act is shown using a text and US flag

The OBBBA Breakdown: What the New Act Means for Furniture Retailers

The image captures the Capitol building with a semi-transparent July calendar watermark overlaid, effectively conveying the sense of looming regulatory deadlines. Created by Freepik.com

Advocacy Update: Week Ending 6.27.25

Announcements

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Celebrating Excellence: HFA’s 2025 Retailer of the Year Award Winners

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3/28/25 Update: HFA Joins Trade Leaders in Opposing Costly Shipping Tariffs

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3/21/25 Update: Tariffs, Shipping Fees, and Economic Shifts

Employees reaching for the HFA Retailer of the Year Award

Celebrating Excellence: HFA’s 2025 Retailer of the Year Award Winners

Economic Tariffs Concept. America tariffs on EU. Crisis, Trade and economic war. Trade shipping containers in port with yellow tape tariffs

3/28/25 Update: HFA Joins Trade Leaders in Opposing Costly Shipping Tariffs

Member Stories

Todd Wanek in the Ashley Furniture Showroom at the High Point Market

Todd Wanek A Home Furnishings Trailblazer

Seth Aaronson, CEO and Lee Aaronson, Chairman of the Board for Lack's Valley Stores.

Celebrating 90 Years: Lacks Furniture Has G.G.R.I.T

Genevieve Wilma Young and Saundra Wilma HFA Retailer of the Year holding award.

A Small Store with a Big Impact: Why Saundra’s Furniture Stands Out

Todd Wanek in the Ashley Furniture Showroom at the High Point Market

Todd Wanek A Home Furnishings Trailblazer

Seth Aaronson, CEO and Lee Aaronson, Chairman of the Board for Lack's Valley Stores.

Celebrating 90 Years: Lacks Furniture Has G.G.R.I.T

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