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  • DIY in Demand: New products are made for the easy install

    DIY in Demand: New products made for easy install

    Tuesday, July 19, 2022

    DIY projects saw a surge in popularity during the pandemic due in large part to consumers spending more time at home and taking on home renovation pro...
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  • Supporting Sustainable Initiatives

    Supporting Sustainable Initiatives

    Monday, July 18, 2022

    When it comes to choosing new floors, the key priorities for consumers are consistently durability, style and price. However, as eco-conscious Millenn...
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  • Supply Chain Snarls Ease

    Supply Chain Snarls Ease

    Wednesday, July 13, 2022

    The well-documented supply chain snarls that dominated the news over the COVID pandemic are starting to ease a bit — although the failures along the w...
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  • Appealing to Millennials & Gen Z

    Appealing to Millennials & Gen Z

    Tuesday, July 12, 2022

    As of 2020, Millennials and Generation Z account for more than 42 percent of the U.S. population, with Millennials eking past Baby Boomers for the tit...
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  • Inflation Woes Slow Economy

    Inflation Woes Slow Economy

    Monday, July 11, 2022

    Just as the world comes out of the two-year pandemic, record inflation and gas prices have put the brakes on what was a fast-growing economy. With eve...
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  • How the Pandemic Changed Everything

    How the Pandemic Changed Everything

    Wednesday, May 25, 2022

    There was the before, and there is the after.  Before March 2020, the COVID-19 virus seemed like something sort of far away. While world health e...
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  • There’s no place like home

    There’s no place like home

    Wednesday, May 25, 2022

    The last five years have changed what “home” means in ways that continue to ripple across how we think of it, how we want to design it, spend money on...
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  • Understanding Millennial & Gen Z Consumers

    Understanding Millennial & Gen Z Consumers

    Wednesday, May 25, 2022

    Millennial and Gen Z shoppers and the way they think is pivotal to growing business. According to Rochelle Routman, chief sustainability and impact of...
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  • Sticker Shock

    Sticker Shock

    Wednesday, January 26, 2022

    By Teresa O’Dea Hein Retailers wrapped up a positive 2021 but are navigating shifting undercurrents of supply chain issues, rising inflation rates, pr...
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  • Consumer Affairs reviews laminate

    Wednesday, October 19, 2016

    By Elise Pillion ConsumerAffairs.com has thousands of reviews from kitchen and home good companies to flooring manufacturers and distributors, includi...
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