Amazon and Wayfair are two popular options when it comes to shopping for furniture online. But how do these competitors compare? Amazon and Wayfair boast different strengths, but Wayfair ultimately offers a more straightforward furniture-shopping experience. These days, people who need furniture and hate shopping have a ton of options. Plenty of retailers – both digital and store-centric – offer customers the opportunity to make major furniture purchases online. And Amazon and Wayfair are two of the biggest players in the game. Amazon got its start shipping books, but it now offers all sorts of goods across different categories. Wayfair specialises in home goods and furnishings. Wayfair has been in the furniture business since 2002, but Amazon recently encroached on the home goods retailer’s territory by unrolling private-label furniture brands Rivet and Stone & Beam. Business Insider recently decided to compare the two companies when it comes to shopping for furniture. Here’s what we found: Amazon, famously, functions as an “everything store.” So, unless you’ve recently been shopping for furniture, that category won’t necessarily pop up for you on the site’s main page. On the other hand, furniture takes the top spot on Wayfair’s category tabs. To effectively compare both sites, let’s use the example of buying a futon. To narrow things down and locate some futon options without using Amazon’s search function, you’ve got to head to the sidebar on the page’s left-hand side. Go to the “home, garden, and tools” category, then click on the sidebar’s “furniture” sub-category…. [Read full story]
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