Furniture retailers cross swords with an ever-growing number of outlets seeking consumers' home furnishings dollars
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The competition for consumers’ dollars in a down economy demands even more creativity than usual.
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An effort to compete more forcefully in a difficult economy has led some retailers with single-vendor storefronts to fill gaps in product and price point with goods from other manufacturers, or convert entirely to multi-line operations....
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Competition can be a great motivator. Some folks are driven by the desire to compete and defeat, and when tossed a bit of extra competition, they will step up and devise a way to pummel their opponent....
OK, so business is war. Every morning legions of us get up, put on our uniforms and trek into the battlefield....
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The dream of most business owners is to simply "be the best you can be," whether the business is a single storefront on Main Street, U.S.A. or a multi-million dollar global enterprise...
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. —Aesop
