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Million-Dollar Sleep Shop: How John Rainey Drives Success with a Focused Product Mix

With just six brands in stock, John Rainey leads the Sleep Shop by Custom Home Furniture Galleries’ million dollar business. Custom Home Furniture Galleries, a...




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Original Mattress Factory: Balancing Tradition and Innovation

As a direct-to-consumer pioneer, the Cleveland-based manufacturer-retailer continues its tradition of hand-built, quality mattresses...

Fred’s Beds Finds Success on the North Carolina Coast

Customer service, emphasis on premium beds and a catchy name are all part of...

Mattress Warehouse Success: The Winning Formula Behind the Second-Largest Independent Mattress...

The second-largest independent mattress retailer in the United States has found its winning formula. What’s...

At Sandman Sleep, Comedy Shows and Sound Baths Help Sell Mattresses

Inventive events, from sound baths to comedy shows, connect this retailer to its community. If you’ve ever found yourself awake in bed, hoping the elusive...

Las Vegas Retailer Bedplanet Shares Its Best Business Advice

Although the name sounds out of this world, this Las Vegas retailer is surprisingly down to earth. Although just a short, slightly southwest drive from...

Mattress Warehouse Success: The Winning Formula Behind the Second-Largest Independent Mattress Retailer

The second-largest independent mattress retailer in the United States has found its winning formula. What’s large, yellow and has a several-foot-wide smile? It’s Matty, Mattress...

Sleep Savvy Examines Best Practices that Have Helped Successful Retailers Thrive

It’s been a minute since we’ve brought you a best-of Retail Road Trip story. Every few years, we like to revisit some of the...

A Winning Spirit

Esprit Decor Home Furnishings’ family camaraderie, customer focus build success. The secret sauce at this home furnishings retailer is the special spirit that drives the...

Mattress Store Promises Smooth Sailing for Shoppers

Annapolis, Maryland-based retailer stresses a no-pressure sales environment with an all-female sales team Located just up the road from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis,...

Memory Makers Win the Day for Broad River Retail

Fast-growing Ashley licensee in the Carolinas and Georgia thrives with dynamic leadership, culture The Memory Makers at Broad River Retail are moving a lot of...

Laws Find Sweet Success at Sweet Dreams Mattress

Family-operated business builds its Dream Team to help customers get their best rest This is a love story. It’s also a story about dreams and...

Fred’s Beds Finds Success on the North Carolina Coast

Customer service, emphasis on premium beds and a catchy name are all part of its winning formula First things first. Yes, there is a Fred...

Tom Wholley’s Personal Touch Wins at Connecticut Mattress

Retail veteran builds his business around honesty, integrity and a promise of “no-fear mattress shopping” To sell mattresses to his customers in Connecticut and surrounding...

L&W Follows Time-Tested Recipe for Success

The factory-direct keeps the good old days of mattress making and personalized selling alive in the Quad Cities area By David Perry Photography by Todd Mizener/Quad-City...

Journey of Discovery Awaits at Green Front Furniture

Revamped bedding department is a standout in a vast family-owned home furnishings complex in central Virginia Green Front Furniture serves notice to its prospective customers:...

Sleepland Is a Wide Awake Mattress Wonderland

Retailer Furnitureland South focuses on bedding in a dramatic new department that aims to excite a spirit of discovery in shoppers “The World’s Largest Furniture...

Original Mattress Factory: Balancing Tradition and Innovation

As a direct-to-consumer pioneer, the Cleveland-based manufacturer-retailer continues its tradition of hand-built, quality mattresses with low-pressure sales. PHOTOGRAPHY BY Owen ZubekInternet-based mattress brands that sell...

Old-Fashioned Values Are Central to Square Deal

This California-based, family-run company, which prides itself on its customized, quality mattresses, is not only surviving — it’s thriving Made-to-order, high-quality mattresses and customer-friendly services...

There’s No Outfoxing Fox Mattress

Owned by a father-and-daughter team, this 50-plus-year-old manufacturer-retailer in Holly Hill, Florida, translates a relaxedapproach and solid craftsmanship into sales growth Rick and Chelsea Carter,...

#WeCanLearnFromEachOther

Sleep Savvy examines best practices that have helped successful retailers thrive in the good times and survive in the tough times These are some of...

Family, Tradition, Quality Are Seamless at BILTRITE

For nearly a century, this furniture store in a Milwaukee suburb has found success in proven sales strategies — and by bucking current mattress...

Joplimo Mattress Is Building Beds — and a Retail Brand — to Last

After buying its own factory in 2018, the family-owned sleep chain based in Joplin, Missouri, focuses on opening new stores — and helping others Photography...

Riley’s Furniture & Mattress Doesn’t Let its Bedding Department Rest

This Monroe, Ohio-based store wins mattress sales with eye-catching design, well-trained staff and a commitment to customer care | Photography by Len Kaltman/West Chester Corporate...

Retail Road Trip: Matthews Mattress Thrives With DIY Strategy

This family-owned sleep shop chain in California finds success through tenacity, flexibility and innovation | Photography by Jordan Famer Photography | From a single store, Matthews...