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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedRTA quality, displays on the rise - ready-to-assemble furniture - Home Market Trends
Discount Store News, Dec 9, 1996 by Barbara White-Sax
Even so, Ames has been active on the higher-price end of discount RTA in the past year, offering metal futon beds at $299 and expanding its solid wood selection.
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These merchants said that the item-intensive RTA business will always reward quick action on trendy goods, as better display systems help discounters step up their business in this vital segment.
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