December 2025 Retail Metrics:
For the final time, we’re looking back at 2025—focusing on December, the heart of the holiday rush—to understand what the data can teach us as we plan for 2026.
This week’s analysis breaks down how the furniture and mattress industries actually performed and what those results reveal for the year ahead.
Today's Rundown
- Q3 Home Furnishing Benchmark Report: Sign up to receive the Q2 2024 Home Furnishing Benchmark Report.
- The Highs and Lows – The Tale of Two Stores: Download our latest use case and turn every rushed interaction into a calm, confident close.
- Cold play: How AI virtual try-on solutions Google & Doji are changing retail
Market Watch
Furniture Industry
Mattress Industry
December 2025: Furniture Industry
December 2025: Mattress Industry
Retail Snippets
Consumer shift: 4 retail trends that will reshape the industry in 2025.
Cold play: The Toy industry faces ‘devastating’ impact from tariffs.
‘Welcome Joann customers’: Longtime competitor woos shoppers from closing retailer.
Random Irrelevance
Mapped: Anthropic intensifies AI competition with $200 plan for Claude models.
Smooth Travels: US airports report smooth operations as new Real ID requirement takes effect.
Never before Seen: NASA tracks strange never-before-seen ‘waterworld’ planet eight times the size of Earth.