The logo of Best Buy and Ikea on shopping carts.<\/p>\n
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Best Buy<\/a> said Thursday it will test mini-showrooms in some of its stores featuring Ikea products to show off kitchen design elements from the home retailer beside home appliances from the electronics store.<\/p>\n Beginning this fall, the program will debut in 10 Best Buy stores across Florida and Texas. Each store will feature a 1,000-square-foot Ikea “shop-in-shop” showcasing styled kitchens and laundry rooms.<\/p>\n “By bringing together our home furnishing expertise, products, and services with Best Buy’s leadership in appliances and technology, we’re creating a one-stop destination where customers can design their dream kitchen, storage solutions or laundry space with ease,” Rob Olson, chief operation officer of Ikea U.S. said in a Thursday press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n The companies did not disclose financial aspects of the partnership.<\/p>\n IKEA is the Swedish flat-pack furniture giant, while Best Buy is one of the United States’ top consumer electronic stores.<\/p>\n The partnership comes as Best Buy looks for new ways to attract shoppers.<\/p>\n The company has struggled lately with rising tariff pressures<\/a>, a soft demand in appliances<\/a>, and a sluggish housing market. Best Buy said this spring that it had increased prices on some items due to tariffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The logo of Best Buy and Ikea on shopping carts. Getty Images Best Buy said Thursday it will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5685,448,28,122,38991,2808,38992,5682,74,1022,21],"class_list":["post-50540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-best-buy-co-inc","tag-breaking-news-business","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-consumerism","tag-florida","tag-furniture-and-home-furnishings-retail","tag-retail-industry","tag-technology","tag-texas","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}