I believe there are three main reasons. 1) It’s not what Big Lots is really known for. 2) Selection. 3) Service. Even before I was in the furniture business I’d look at the furniture at Big Lots while my wife was shopping for other items. They seemed to have some nice items of mid-range quality

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Retail is set to have a record year of closures, spurred by the shuttering of Toys ‘R’ Us, Sam’s Club, Sears and Bon-Ton stores around the country, CNBC’s Lauren Thomas reports. “The amount of retail space going dark in 2018 is on pace to break a record,” says the report, citing CoStar, a real estate

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Americans are as eager to work as ever. Just no longer for somebody else. According to FreshBooks, a cloud-based accounting company that has conducted a study on self-employment for two years, the number of Americans working for themselves looks to triple—to 42 million people—by 2020. The trend, gauged in a survey of more than 2,700

Make your home a money-making machine Las Vegas, Nevada, February, 2018 – It’s not everyday a person can find financial freedom in the furniture business. It’s even rarer to find it from the comfort of one’s home–or better still–from the solace of the very sofa partially responsible for one’s financial success. Introducing KozyHome.  “KozyHome is

The Beautyrest mattress line marches across the nation with iDealFurniture’s network of Distribution Centers. Las Vegas, Nevada, January, 2018 – iDealFurniture, America’s #1 business opportunity in the furniture business today announced that it is now a authorized licensed dealer for Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC’s BeautyRest line of mattresses. Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC, famous for inventing

Markus Jooste, CEO for Steinhoff and Ben la Grange acting CFO, both step down under growing concerns about accounting irregularities. Markus led Steinhoff on a great run acquiring companies and growing Steinhoff into the second largest retailer in all of Europe finishing right behind IKEA. Their stock took a 60% dive yesterday wiping out over

Steinhoff International Holdings NV plunged after its chief executive officer resigned amid accounting irregularities, rocking a company that’s rapidly expanded from its roots in South Africa into a retail empire spanning Australia, Europe and the U.S. The owner of the France-based Conforama furniture chain, Mattress Firm in the U.S. and Poundland in the U.K. said late Tuesday

The Rise and Fall of Steinhoff, South Africa’s Global Retailer By  Janice Kew December 6, 2017, 4:46 AM PST Steinhoff International Holdings NV, founded in 1964 as a German furniture seller, morphed into a South Africa-based retailer with global ambitions. Since billionaire Christo Wiese bought in three years ago, Steinhoff has accelerated a deal-making spree, snapping up