At capacity: Industry struggles with a counterintuitive 'COVID bump' challenge

Furniture retailers are confronting an unexpected, pandemic-driven business oddity: an oversupply of product.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 11:00 a.m. July 7, 2022
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Mark Wemple. Matter Bros. Furniture & Mattress President John Matter.
Mark Wemple. Matter Bros. Furniture & Mattress President John Matter.
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While many industries are still reeling from shortages caused by global supply-chain disruptions, one in particular — furniture — has the opposite problem: too much inventory and nowhere to put it.

 

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