Furniture stores see range of impacts from pandemic

Facing store closures, reopenings and supply chain issues, furniture stores are working to make sure customers feel comfortable shopping, whether in stores or online.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 4:00 p.m. May 20, 2020
Courtesy. Online sales for Rooms To Go increased while its brick-and-mortar stores, like this store in Naples, were closed.
Courtesy. Online sales for Rooms To Go increased while its brick-and-mortar stores, like this store in Naples, were closed.
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The pandemic hit right as OFDC Commercial Interiors was delivering an order to Gulf Coast Medical Center, a Fort Myers hospital. “We were in there installing as they were doing COVID tests out front,” says OFDC Commercial Interiors President and Owner Joe Gammons.

 

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