You can choose which items, if any, show up on your homepage by navigating to store admin/pages/index/and choosing what you'd like to show from the "show products" drop down menu. You can choose to show new items, featured items, sale items, and more. You can also turn off any product display in this area. Be sure to save your changes.
To turn off your homepage product display:
- Log into your store admin
- Navigate to Pages and open the "Index" page
- Find the "Product Display" drop down and make your selection
- Save your changes