Kitchen & Bath show bustles in Atlanta

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The Kitchen/Bath Industry Show held in Atlanta, GA, between May 3-5, 1996, offered home improvement retailers a good opportunity to purchase the latest styles in kitchen and bath accessories. The show's 600 booths exhibited kitchen cabinets, lavatories, toilets, faucets and accessories in new colors and innovative designs. Auto-Graph and Cybertron Inc introduced touch-screen systems for home center stores' customers that allow them design their own kitchens.

Wood kitchen cabinets, Wood Kitchen Cabinets & Vanities, Wood Kitchen Cabinet and Countertop Manufacturing, Vitreous plumbing fixtures, Ceramic Bathroom Accessories, Vitreous China Plumbing Fixture and China and Earthenware Bathroom Accessories Manufacturing, Purchasing, Exhibitions, Furniture industry, Bathroom accessories, 1996 AD, Multi-Housing World and Kitchen-Bath Industry Show

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Customers are the first to know if a retailer's bluffing

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Home center store retailers can no longer depend on low pricing to bring customers in. Nearly ever retailer has reached low price levels to compete. Instead, retailers who will be successful and survive the fierce competition within markets will be those who service their customers better than others. Customers' needs should be made a high priority and the product selection a retailer promises to stock better be there when a customer is ready to buy.

Management, Column, Customer satisfaction, Public relations

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Share of mind is a terrible thing to waste

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Home center store and hardware store chains analyze their annual reports for 1995. Orchard Supply Hardware, Ernst Home & Nursery, HomeBase, and Eagle Home & Garden analyze their sales of garden and home-decor products, and strategies used to increase their share in the highly competitive home improvement market. The chains mention that bad weather and economic factors generated a decline in their store sales especially in Southern California.

Hardware Stores, Statistics, HomeBase Inc., Orchard Supply Hardware Corp., Ernst Home Center Inc., ERNS, Eagle Home and Garden

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