Have You Seen The Prices of New Beds?

[kidicarus13]

MF has way too many stores, sometime right across the street from each other, they probably need the massive profit margin to maintain all the stores.

10/05/18
Mattress Firm, largest US mattress retailer, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/05/matt...rotection.html

[dorsum]

Wife and I have been looking for a new bed. We're sleeping on a 15+ year old Sleep Number bed. It's a king and there's a huge gap in the middle where the two air mattresses meet and it's just annoying as can be.

Yesterday we stopped by Walmart and there's a Mattress Firm store next door. Went inside and the sticker shock was worse than looking at new cars! I had no idea you could pay $5500 for JUST a mattress. An entire bed (frame, foundation, mattress) can easily cost $11000 or more. Of course there are less expensive beds...but who's buying $11000 beds? And there wasn't just one model at that price...there were lots of them.

The lady in the store said, "Don't let the price bother you. We have no interest financing for 60 months on most of our beds." What? You now have to finance a bed for 5 years? I must be way outta touch.

I'd say the average "Good" quality mattress was somewhere in the $1500 - $2500 range for a king.

Unbelievable.

We bought our previous mattress for about $1800. It lasted about a year before it started to sag and hurt our backs. Of course it was not enough for the manufacturer to take it back, so we suffered for another 3 years.

We ended up buying a purple mattress back in November and it feels great to both of us. Don't know how long it will last, but it has been the most comfortable mattress we have ever had and only about $1150 with the base.