Retail

FrontlineIQ provides retailers specialized AI sales coaching and training tools

Artificial intelligence is still in its early days, but savvy companies are quickly leveraging the…

Raymour & Flanigan expanding sleep center footprint across New England

Liverpool, New York-based furniture and mattress retailer Raymour & Flanigan is expanding its New England…

Muenkel Minutes: Focus tasks toward progress

While handling multiple customers, it is important to keep them all engaged. As long as…

How retailers are winning the mattress sale in 2026

In my latest column, I explored the changing psychology of today’s mattress shopper, from shifting…

Muenkel Minutes: Task & Tease

Bouncing back and forth between customers is a lot like juggling spinning plates on poles.…

What does it take to sell a mattress in 2026?

It’s no secret that the bedding industry has experienced a prolonged slowdown over the past…

Muenkel Minutes: Positioning and excusing yourself

UncleMuenkel gets into some meaningful ways that retail sales associates can position and excuse themselves…

Max Humphrey on how designers are changing the bedding business

For years, bedding felt like the uncool sibling of the furnishings world. Most bedding accessories…

Muenkel Minutes: Primary practices

UncleMuenkel begins a new subject: handling multiple customers. Regardless of what retail industry you are in,…

Muenkel Minutes: Final recap of SSDR

Here is the final SSDR recap of the previous four videos. SSDR is one of…