Tag: Home Furnishings
Sep 29, 2026 | 5 minutes read | Insight Flash
Housing Market Pressure Is Widening the Divide in Home Furnishings
With the housing market still struggling to regain momentum, the type of home furnishing purchase appears to matter more. The average 30-year mortgag...
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May 8, 2025 | 5 minutes read | News
Frieze is acquired, home spending slows, and more
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May 6, 2025 | 5 minutes read | News
Spending cools in home furnishings – High-income households lead pullback in Q1
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Feb 12, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
Mortgage payers outspent on home improvement, not furniture, in 2024
Home Improvement shoppers spend more in the 180 days before their first mortgage payment than in the 180 days after according to Earnest credit card ...
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Jan 6, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
TikTok Shop, Shein, and Temu won the holidays in 2024
Consumer spending grew 2.5% YoY during the 2024 holiday season according to Earnest credit card data. This marks an acceleration from 2023, which gre...
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Dec 17, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
High income shoppers pull back in 2024 holiday season
Holiday spending was flat for earners making between $40k-$150k so far in 2024 (see chart notes for details). The lowest and highest earners, below $...
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Dec 12, 2024 | 5 minutes read | Insight Flash
BFCM 2024: Breaking Down the Biggest Sales Weekend of the Year
Numerous reports indicated a better-than-expected Black Friday / Cyber Monday as consumers sought out deals and the holiday shopping season went into...
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Aug 21, 2024 | 5 minutes read | News
Several factors converge to give home furnishings a modest rebound in Q2
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Aug 19, 2024 | 5 minutes read | News
Study: Renters Giving a Boost to Home & Housewares
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Aug 19, 2024 | 5 minutes read | News
Consumer Edge Reports New U.S. Home Furnishings Data Revealing Modest Rebound
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Aug 19, 2024 | 5 minutes read | Insight Flash
Q2 US Home Furnishings Digest
The US home furnishings market started showing signs of a small rebound, as waning inflation puts less pressure on consumer wallets. Among different ...
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May 8, 2024 | 5 minutes read | Insight Flash
Q1 US Home Furnishings Digest
The US home furnishings market remained weak during the first quarter of 2024, as inflation and high interest rates for new mortgages pressured prosp...
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Mar 20, 2024 | 5 minutes read | Insight Flash
To Zulily and Beyond: BYON’s Acquisition of Zulily Taps into New Customer Demographics
Beyond Inc. (BYON), the company that owns Overstock and Bed Bath & Beyond, recently acquired Zulily, a company known for its flash sales on name-bran...
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Jan 10, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
Holiday spending grew slightly as shoppers traded luxury for value in 2023
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Dec 4, 2023 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
Black Friday and Cyber Monday post slow sales growth; Online Marketplaces outperform
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Nov 14, 2023 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
Holiday sales below year-ago levels as 2023 season begins
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Aug 31, 2023 | 5 minutes read | Insight Flash
Is Overstock Really Taking Bed Bath Beyond?
Overstock.com has retired its own website and relaunched a Bed Bath & Beyond-branded site in its place. Although the home furnishings site has seen ...
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Jul 18, 2023 | 5 minutes read | Insight Flash
Christmas Tree Shops Closures Bring Christmas in July to Home Furnishings Stores
Home goods retailer Christmas Tree Shops (CTS) has started closing its stores since filing for bankruptcy in May 2023. CE Transaction data is showin...
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Jun 26, 2023 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
Overstock reaches for Bed, Bath, & Beyond customers with IP acquisition
On 06/21/23, Overstock won the bid for Bed, Bath, and Beyond’s intellectual property, business data, and rights to mobile applications. According t...
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May 15, 2023 | 5 minutes read | Insight Flash
Where Do Bed Bath & Beyond Customers Spend Money in Home Furnishings?
With Bed Bath & Beyond's recent bankruptcy announcement top-of-mind for both public and private investors, we leverage CE data to uncover private hom...
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Oct 6, 2022 | 5 minutes read | Insight Deep Dive
How Battered is Bed Bath & Beyond?
Bed Bath & Beyond has survived the test of time as one of the last remaining big box brick-and-mortar category killers. But recent performance has...
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Jul 12, 2022 | 5 minutes read | All Posts
June 2022 Earnest Analytics (FKA Earnest Research) Spend Index
Earnest Analytics (FKA Earnest Research) Spend Index grew at the same rate in June as it did the prior month, with a slight improvement in online off...
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Jun 13, 2022 | 5 minutes read | Insight Deep Dive
Amusement Parks Heating Up With Memorial Day Temps
A particularly warm Memorial Day weekend this year provided perfect weather for beaches and grilling, as well as visiting theme parks and outdoor att...
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Jun 2, 2022 | 5 minutes read | Insight Deep Dive
The Lowdown on Low Income Spending
As companies have been reporting earnings recently, many have noted weakness in low-income spending, even as higher income groups have remained less ...
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Apr 26, 2022 | 5 minutes read | Insight Deep Dive
What Do April Snow Showers Bring?
Last week’s Northeastern snowstorm may have come as a surprise to some shoppers, but not CE WeatherOptics subscribers! WeatherOptics predicted d...
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Dec 20, 2021 | 5 minutes read | Insight Deep Dive
Shipping Fees Matter on the Margins
CE Receipt can help users understand company performance not only by tracking topline spend, but also by digging into margin drivers with a breakout ...
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Dec 13, 2021 | 5 minutes read | Insight Deep Dive
Receipts Restoring RH Resilience
One of the areas where CE Receipt data can be a valuable tool is in analyzing the performance of Home Furnishings companies. It proved predictive ...
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Nov 1, 2021 | 5 minutes read | Insight Deep Dive
Where Is The Great Resignation Driving Spend?
The Great Resignation, as it’s been termed, has led to a record percentage of workers leaving their jobs and hiring troubles across most sectors. ...
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Sep 17, 2021 | 5 minutes read | Insight Deep Dive
Affirming Amazon’s BNPL Play
The recently announced partnership between Amazon and Affirm for the latter to provide shoppers with Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) options on purchases ov...
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Aug 26, 2020 | 5 minutes read | Insight Deep Dive
What’s Really Been Improving Home Improvement?
Among last week’s surprise outperformance announcements were strong quarterly reports for both Home Depot (HD) and Lowe’s (LOW). Although they ...
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