“It was promoted as giving your office an automatic memory,” said Craig Robertson, an expert on filing cabinets. “People were surprisingly excited by it.”

When a retailer buys a product from a manufacturer as is and slaps its own label and price tag on it, the practice is called white labelling.

This week, Wayfair reported a $42 million loss and its CEO compared the drop in demand to the one seen in the last financial crisis.

Different parts of the country make different products and often respond distinctly to economic trends.

Ikea is launching a new line of gaming furniture more suited for the living room than the basement. It’s a sign of how gamer demographics are maturing.

Furniture prices fell 3.7% over the last year, according to the latest Consumer Price Index report.

Matthew Wicker, owner of Oregon-based WickerWoodWorks, is profiting from the renewed popularity of records and record players.

The furniture and home furnishings sector saw a 5.4% sales decline last year.

Furniture used to last a lifetime. Now, not so much. But how did we get here?

Sales at furniture stores have been sliding amid a cooling housing market and weakening consumer sentiment about making big purchases.