When the first issue of Floor Covering News arrived in 1986, Ronald Reagan was president, “Top Gun” was dominating movie screens, the average new home cost less than $90,000 and carpet was still king. Retailers relied on printed catalogs; consumers looked to magazines for design inspiration and the idea of researching flooring online—or asking artificial intelligence for decorating advice—was decades away. Forty years later, the flooring industr…
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