The Association’s statement mentions the fact that in normal times, home building comprises 18% of the national economy, and has an extensive positive impact on local business. Moreover, home building has a large multiplier effect, with the construction of 100 single-family homes being enough to provide jobs for 300 workers, and create tens of millions of dollars’ worth of economic activity.

The NAHB expressed the hope that the Obama administration will do more to spur home construction, as a measure that will help pull the country out of its current economic slump. On our part, as homes are built, Floormall stands ready to deliver high-quality new flooring to construction projects nationwide.

This is a boon for patio shoppers. You can reliably count on getting the best deal on, for instance, swings and umbrellas at FloorMall.com, whether rain or shine.

The Simple Patios line is both extensive and elegant. Whether you need stone tiles, wood tiles, or composite deck tiles to restore your outdoor patio, or hammocks, patio benches, and chaise lounges to adorn your backyard for the summer – floormall.com/outdoor is the place for you.

This is all not to mention that shipping is free on all Simple Patio orders. For patio furniture that is as durable, and thus heavy, as these products, free shipping is quite a deal.

What’s more, the warranty on all outdoor furniture from Simple Patios lasts for half a century. That’s right – 50 whole years! Just think, you will be able to sit on this patio furniture with your boyfriend, your husband, your son, your grandson, and if you should be so lucky, your great grandson!

There’s no time like the present. Go ahead and check out our fine outdoor and patio furniture products today!

When purchasing from FloorMall be sure to check out their coupon section. Here you’ll find dozens of coupons providing you with extra savings in these trying economic times. The coupon section is updated regularly so be sure to check in often for great deals.

The fact of the matter is that if you’re going to Lowe’s for your laminate flooring needs you’re likely going to end up paying more money for a lesser product.  Thanks to lower overheads and more competitive pricing better deals can be found online.  And if you’re thinking about buying any high end flooring products then it’s much more cost effective to purchase them online. In order to back up my claim I searched through Lowe’s website to find a product that was sold at FloorMall.com.

For those of you who don’t know, FloorMall.com is one of the leading online retailers of flooring. For this post I decided to look at the Armstrong Classics Gunstock Laminate Flooring.  Lowe’s has a box of this flooring, 20.58 square feet, going for $71.42.   FloorMall offers the exact amount of the identical product for only $49.80. And I’m confident that further price comparisons would lead to similar results. Lowe’s is a fine store and has been in business in one form or another since 1946. But when it comes to flooring there are just better options out there for internet savvy shoppers.

One third of people that shop online use a search engine to find what they are initially looking for and about one fourth find websites by word of mouth. Word of mouth has become a leading way by which people have most recently been finding shopping websites, which has only increased in usage as additional consumers are engaging in e-commerce. When an online shopper has a good first experience with a certain website, sixty percent of the time they will return to that website to make additional purchases. One reason for the rise in popularity, online floor shopping provides more freedom and control than shopping in a store. From a sociological perspective, online shopping is arguably the most predictable way to shop. One knows exactly what website to go to, how much the product will cost, and how long it will take for the product to reach them. Online shopping has become extremely routine and predictable, which is one of its great appeals to the consumer. So how is the initial sale made? Consumers find a product of interest by visiting the website of the retailer directly, or do a search across many different vendors using a shopping search engine.

Once a particular product has been found on the web site of the seller, most online flooring retailers use shopping cart software to allow the consumer to accumulate multiple items and to adjust quantities, and at times make special changes to the actual product. A “checkout” process follows in which payment and delivery information is collected, if necessary. Some stores allow consumers to sign up for a permanent online account so that some or all of this information only needs to be entered once. The consumer often receives an e-mail confirmation once the transaction is complete. Less sophisticated stores may rely on consumers to phone or e-mail their orders, in which case, credit card numbers are usually not accepted for security reasons.

Online shoppers commonly use credit cards to make payments, however some systems enable users to create accounts and pay by alternative means such as debit card, C.O.D., check, wire transfer, postal money order, PayPal, Google Checkout, reverse SMS billing to mobile phones and gift cards. Some sites will not allow international credit cards and other require that the billing address and the shipping address have to be in the same country in which site does its business. Other sites allow customers from anywhere to send gifts anywhere. The financial part of a transaction might be processed in real time or might be done later as part of the fulfillment process. While credit cards are currently the most popular means of paying for online goods like laminate flooring, alternative online payments will account for 26% of e-commerce volume by 2009 according to a recent study.

While newbie online shoppers tend to cling to the familiar, and they are 81 percent more likely than experienced shoppers to shop only at sites they’ve shopped at in the past, they will in time venture outside of this comfort zone and expand their purchasing to larger items such as home flooring, electronics and valuables. Nevertheless, willingness to shop at new sites increases among users with more experience online. In addition, as experience and comfort grows, spending also increases. The survey data shows that roughly 75 percent of current online shoppers are willing to try a new Internet merchant. Contributing to the ability of consumers to find new online stores is the increased use of search and comparison shopping. This has provided added visibility to unfamiliar flooring manufacturers and their respective sites. Just a few years ago, the search engines were much less technologically advanced and as a result, the search results they displayed were lacking, to say the least. Things in this regard have changed, which has greatly impacted online shopping and the consumer’s ability to find the e-tailer they are seeking. This has also resulted in the following trend - the growth in online spending is fueled by more transactions per user, as opposed to more total users. It comes as no surprise, the experienced buyer will spend more online and they will do so more often.

Plus, at a virtual store you won’t have to put up with what Consumer Reports calls “a prime irritant” of in-store shopping: the pitch to buy extras. Research shows you are three times more likely to buy extras if you shop at a walk-in store. This indicates the level of pressure often used to push these additional products onto the consumer. Even when shopping for flooring online, check around, price match, review return policies, company contact information, warranty specifications and additional fees. And while you are there, take advantage of the sites’ great information such as how-to installation videos and hundreds of educational articles covering everything from upkeep to design. As a last reminder, some sites sell third-party products, so it might be useful to also scope out the manufacturer’s home site.