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Retailer Ikea has launched its first set of assembly videos to help guide customers through the process of assembling some of its furniture items. Ikea’s first assembly video features a couple assembling the retailer’s Malm bed frame. Designed to complement printed instructions, the short videos provide a visual reference for consumers and feature Ikea . . . → Read More: Ikea Creates Assembly Videos Sleep Train, a West Coast mattress retailer based here, collected more than 160,000 items for foster children last year as part of its award-winning Foster Kids Program. And Northwest mattress retailer Sleep Country USA, owned by Sleep Train and based in Seattle, collected more than 101,000 items for foster children last year, more than in . . . → Read More: Foster Kids Benefit from 261,000 Items ALBANY, Ga. — Several furniture store owners here expressed their frustration to city commissioners Tuesday about temporary furniture peddlers who sell out of trucks, TV station WALB reported. “Furniture peddlers have an advantage over us. For $100 they set up shop. They pay no inventory tax, no property tax, no school tax, no city tax . . . → Read More: Store owners in Georgia city object to furniture peddlers NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Touched by a 4-year-old girl’s battle with cancer that already had claimed both of her eyes, Bob’s Discount Furniture and several employees of its Orange, Conn., store gave the girl a set of bedroom furniture that her family could not afford. According to a story in the New Haven Register, store . . . → Read More: Furniture Store and Employees Help Cancer Girl Swedish retailer Ikea said worldwide sales increased 6.9% in the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, while profits jumped 10.3% despite higher raw materials costs. The privately held retailer said worldwide sales totaled 24.7 billion euros, equivalent to about $31.9 billion. Total revenues, which include sales and rental income from commercial properties, were 25.2 billion euros, . . . → Read More: 10.3% Profit Jump for IKEA |
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