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wholesale furniture market Traditionally the local furniture store would buy wholesale furniture from independent sales reps that became reliable resources for new designs, catalogs and wholesale companies that might not ever market into a territory due to cost. Territories which ranged from several zip codes to multiple states could cost a furniture wholesale company several hundred of thousands of dollars to staff efficiently from the company support, catalog creation, travel fees such as gas and hotels and telecommunication costs. Since the consumer has demanded lower and lower costs for the finished furniture product and the current sales volume has discharged up due to the recession, sometimes the sales reps have been cut out entirely and replaced with an online ordering system. In order to push costs down to as low as possible, many wholesale companies started to place their inventory online to make it easier for the retailer to purchase items directly from their company. The advantage to the retailer is they now have instant access to how many items are available from the wholesaler. Not that many years ago, the retailer used to have to call in to see if the furniture wholesaler had an item in stock and a complicated dance with the in house customer service rep calling their warehouse to do a physical inventory check would ensue. Now the furniture store just goes online, looks for their item, informs them customer that the item is in stock and then they facilitate the purchase on the spot. This reduces the buying process from: catalog, independent rep, customer service, warehouse, order to the following: online store, order. All of this reduction in man power benefits the consumer in lower prices. Some of the first wholesale furniture movers have adopted internet polices thatave them an advantage to some of the older, entrenched and antiquated furniture companies and have essentially pushed them out of business with their efficiencies. As time progressed and most of the surviving furniture wholesale companies have adopted an internet policy, the end result has been lower prices for the furniture store and consumer alike. One disadvantage of this methodology is that if the furniture wholesaler does not have independent reps in a territory anymore, they must show at a local or national furniture shows in order to see their customer both new and old on a periodic basis. Source by Charles Shen

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How the Internet Has Decreased Prices For Wholesale Furniture For Consumers and Furniture Stores

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