Mattress Stores?

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How can mattress stores make any money?  It seems like there is one in every strip mall.  How many mattresses do people buy in a lifetime? 

I can honestly say that I’ve bought one at a mattress store. It is nice and comfy but I’m not married to it.  If I had to buy a new one because of a tornado or God forbid my dog expired on it and released its bowels and everything else I would probably not go back to a mattress store.   All the others I’ve purchased for my children have come from Sam’s Club or a discount mega-mart type store.

 Makes you wonder how many mattresses these stores have to sell in order to pay their monthly rent and utilities or even the paychecks of the poor people that work there.  Can you imagine working commission as a sales rep at a mattress store?  It would be better if they would legalize prostitution and hiring the ladies to be sales rep.  Because even if they don’t make the commission of the mattress sale they could at least make money off of the test drive.

New Strip Mall… coming soon

Why is it that everywhere you look they are putting up more and more strip malls?  I live in Indianapolis and the West side of town is completely covered with them.  The sad thing is once the construction is complete the stores stay empty for months even years at a time. 

What kind of company can afford to do that?  Then when something is finally opened in the building, it’s usually useless like another cell phone company or a mattress store.  I think the cities should look at the overall empty strip malls before they allow new ones to be constructed.  Maybe make a rule like the occupancy rate must be 80% full in the area.  Instead we have strip mall after strip mall with only one or two stories in them. 

What a waste of money and space.  This does not even take into account the area that was destroyed to put up the empty building.  Maybe it would have been better to put in a public park!