Ted Hurlbut

Furniture Market Grows with Consumers

March 16, 2010

FROM RETAILWIRE:
As a Daily Finance article points out, big-and-tall shops and plus-size stores have found a profitable niche that furniture marketers are also hoping to tap into. Do you see a sizable opportunity for furniture designed for big-and-tall consumers?      [more...]

My sense is that the dimensions of many standard-size furniture items have been growing larger, but plus-size furniture above and beyond those dimensions would likely run into production run-size issues that might push retail prices beyond workable. For that reason, and because of the dimensions of standard-size furniture, I suspect this would be a pretty narrow niche business, at best.