Furniture Stores
Have you ever noticed that the moment you step into a furniture store, it makes the salespeople really antsy?
They shadow you everywhere in the show room that you go, and keep trying to egg you into buying something already. They'll keep coming up with unconvincing ways in which to get you to buy something right then - either telling you that their superduper special sale is ending in 15 minutes or that there is this wonderful piece of furniture that is going to run out of stock never to be replaced ever again. Certainly, they do do this kind of thing at every kind of store; but at a furniture store, the pressure to buy seems to go nuclear. Why are they so desperate? Here are a few truths about this and other things you need to know about what goes on behind the scenes you go in to buy furniture. [Read more...]
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