Furniture is one the fastest-growing retail categories on Amazon, according to One Click Retail.

Furniture giant La-Z-Boy Inc. reported a 15.16 percent decrease in net income for the first quarter of its 2018 fiscal year compared to last year’s first quarter.

Ashley Furniture has broken ground on a $30 million, 500,000-square-foot e-commerce facility.

Amazon.com says it will hire 1,000 people for a new furniture and large item fulfillment center in Jefferson, Georgia, as it ventures into bulkier goods.

Online retailer Amazon has seen gains in sales of bulky 'eCommerce Immune' Items and Americans are increasingly turning to it for tools, big and heavy home improvement items.

Retail millwork specialists are seeing their livelihood threatened as consumers continue to buy more online. Chicago-based mall operator General Growth Properties thinks web-only retailers will build real stores not just for sales, but for returns.

Etsy is in the cross-hairs of online retail behemoth Amazon, which formally launched Handmade at Amazon, a retail site for hand crafted goods. Amazon, which has been inviting woodworkers and other crafters to join, says items sold there are to be factory-free, handcrafted goods, and are supplied from more than 60 countries.

Amazon will sell professional home services including remodeling and decorating, handyman and home maintenance, among over 700 categories, overlapping with Angie's List, Pro.com, Porch,com, Lowe's, and Home Depot's Red Beacon, and Houzz. Amazon vets providers and guarantees the work.

The Amazon Home Services store includes more than 2 million unique service offers across over 700 professions.Customers can buy professional services backed by Amazon’s Happiness Guarantee.

Home storage and laundry products wholesaler Kennedy International is part of a growing group of companies lodging complaints with Amazon.com for shipping knock-off or imitation products.