Bed Store Bed Blog

Night Nibblers: Midnight Buffet in Bed

Are you up to a midnight feast in bed?  What if your were the feast?  It's happening everynight, all over the country.  BED BUGS are back and they are dying to "eat you." Bed bugs bite and suck blood from humans. Bed bugs are most active at night and bite any exposed areas of skin while an individual is sleeping. The face, neck, hands, and arms are common sites for bed bug bites. The bite itself is painless and is not noticed. Small, flat, or raised bumps on the skin are the most common sign; redness, swelling, and itching commonly occur. If scratched, the bite areas can become infected. A peculiarity of bed bug bites is the tendency to find several bites lined up in a row. Infectious disease specialists refer to this as the "breakfast, lunch, and dinner" sign signifying the sequential feeding that occurs from site to site.

Protect yourself.  Start out with a fresh new mattress from The Bed Store and start using a "mattress protector" from the very start.  Wash your mattress protector right along with your sheets.  I recommend that you get two protectors so that you can put a fresh one on while you are laundering the other.  Not only will this protect you from bed bugs, but also from the allergyns associated with dust mites.  Mattress protectors insure your hygene while at the same offer protection for your mattress warranties by keeping your mattress free of spills and bodily fluids.  No mattress should be without a mattress protector.

Isn't it time for a brand new "bed bug" free sleeping experience?  Get into one of The Bed Store's eight Knoxville areal locations today and start sleeping better tonight.

Go to http://www.medicinenet.com/bed_bugs/article.htm for a better education on bedbugs.article.htm

Sleeping With Celebrities

We hear or see an advertisement for a particular sleep product being endorsed by some celebrity or noted organization and we are influenced to try that product for ourselves the next time we are in the market for a new mattress.  What's that all about?  Why are we so easily influenced by others that claim to "be in the know?"

It seems to me, unless we were actually sleeping with them, that we would want to chose our own mattress.  What if we chose a mattress that we thought was "just right" for us and called our favorite celeb or organization and recommended it to them.  Do you think they would rush right out and purchase one for themselves? Would they trust us to pick there mattress for them?

Each year mattress companies pay orgainzations like Good Housekeeping, and celebs like Paul Harvey or some super athelete hundreds of thousands of dollars to indorse their particular sleep system and to influence your next purchase.  The truth is, many of these organizations and celebs don't even sleep on the products they endorse.  My question, then why do we?

The Bed Store's stand has always been to take each individual through their very own personal "sleep equation evaluation" and find out what mattress products were designed to handle those needs and desires.  We vigoriously shop the mattress markets constantly throughout the year updating our line up to make sure that we offer the very best products within our customers preferred price ranges.  We train our sales staff in the proper techniques to discover who our shoppers are and what best meets there own personal needs for years to come.  Once we get it right, we offer a full one year customer satisfaction guarantee.  The result, The Bed Store has over 70,000 satisfied customers and is East Tennessee's number one mattress dealer for over 18 years.

Don't let someone else pick your new just right mattress for you.  Let The Bed Store make you your own celebrity and start sleeping better tonight. You'll wake up feeling totally relaxed, refreshed, and ready for the new day.

"Too hard, too soft, just right" A Goldilock's Story

Being a mattress blog, you might think my title, "too hard, too soft, just right" deals with the feel of the new mattress you are shopping for.  Not this time.  It actually refers to the shopping process itself.  At The Bed Store, we are constantly searching for not only the right products at the best prices, but also for the very best way to present these products to our customers. 

Our research reveals that the number one complaint from mattress shopping customers is that it is too confusing and that they DO NOT trust the salespeople.  In fact, mattress salespeople are compared with "used car" salespeople.  This grives me, but it is a truth that I must live with and try to remedy as I hire and train our sales staff.  One axiom we live by is "never, ever lie to, steal from, or cheat" our customers.  In fact, "the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is the underlying spirit of our business.  So, this should pretty much take care of everything, right?  Nope, not so fast.

Because I put a harness on our salespeople and don't allow them to "pressure" our customers into a "buying decision" they can come across "too soft," therby not assisting you complete the sale, once they have actually helped your find your "just right" mattress.  Because you are so afraid of making the wrong decision, you simply decide to wait and think some more and once you do, the confusing process begins all over again and you search endlessly until some, perhaps ill intentioned, salesperson from one of our competitors and thereby end up with perhaps the wrong mattress and spending more than they needed or less than they should have to get the right mattress.

So, do I "tweak" their training and increase their tendency to "close the sale" once they get anywhere close to something you like?  That would be the easy answer, and they could "make good money doing it."  But then the tendency might be for them to become "too hard" in their saleing process, thinking more about "getting the deal" than helpin YOU find the very best mattress and the best price for your particular needs. 

My answer, NO COMPROMISE!  The Bed Store will continue to work this out, but we will NEVER compromise YOU, our valued customer.  We will diligently work on finding the "just right" solution so that when you are in the market for your new mattress, you can shop The Bed Store with absolute confidence and assurance that you will be treated as we would want to be treated when we shopped for any new product that we wanted.  You are worth the effort and besides, we want to sleep good at night too.

Too hard, too soft, just right!

Being a mattress blog, you might think my title, "too hard, too soft, just right" deals with the feel of the new mattress you are shopping for.  Not this time.  It actually refers to the shopping process itself.  At The Bed Store, we are constantly searching for not only the right products at the best prices, but also for the very best way to present these products to our customers. 

Our research reveals that the number one complaint from mattress shopping customers is that it is too confusing and that they DO NOT trust the salespeople.  In fact, mattress salespeople are compared with "used car" salespeople.  This grives me, but it is a truth that I must live with and try to remedy as I hire and train our sales staff.  One axiom we live by is "never, ever lie to, steal from, or cheat" our customers.  In fact, "the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is the underlying spirit of our business.  So, this should pretty much take care of everything, right?  Nope, not so fast.

Because I put a harness on our salespeople and don't allow them to "pressure" our customers into a "buying decision" they can come across "too soft," therby not assisting you complete the sale, once they have actually helped your find your "just right" mattress.  Because you are so afraid of making the wrong decision, you simply decide to wait and think some more and once you do, the confusing process begins all over again and you search endlessly until some, perhaps ill intentioned, salesperson from one of our competitors and thereby end up with perhaps the wrong mattress and spending more than they needed or less than they should have to get the right mattress.

So, do I "tweak" their training and increase their tendency to "close the sale" once they get anywhere close to something you like?  That would be the easy answer, and they could "make good money doing it."  But then the tendency might be for them to become "too hard" in their saleing process, thinking more about "getting the deal" than helpin YOU find the very best mattress and the best price for your particular needs. 

My answer, NO COMPROMISE!  The Bed Store will continue to work this out, but we will NEVER compromise YOU, our valued customer.  We will diligently work on finding the "just right" solution so that when you are in the market for your new mattress, you can shop The Bed Store with absolute confidence and assurance that you will be treated as we would want to be treated when we shopped for any new product that we wanted.  You are worth the effort and besides, we want to sleep good at night too.

Sleep Better Thanks to Vegas

I'm just back in from the Furniture Market in Las Vegas.  I was checking out everything "NEW" in sleep products.  This is my chance to see what's availble now that may be better than what I already have selected as "the best of the best."  It's also a chance to see what's on the horizon.  This was a great market and there are many exciting new things.

Here's what's new for The Bed Store.  We ordered, and will be offering the hottest new line of Latex products on the market.  Can't mention the name yet as my competitors read this too.  They'll have to do their own work since they don't pay me to do it. This new concept is an idea that will catch on and deliver one of the best night's sleep you have ever had, and at a great price compared to the competitive models.  Simple design, incredible performance. See it very soon at one of The Bed Store's eight area locations. (Knoxville, TN.)

As always, you'll get The Bed Store service along with the lowest prices, guaranteed!  Just check out our testimonial page at bedstore.com to see what our customers are saying.

Remember, nothing does more good for you than a great night's sleep.  Let The Bed Store help you find your just right mattress and start sleeping better tonight.

"I'll sleep when I'm dead."

I was just reading a Twit from a man claiming that he would "sleep when he was dead."  I suppose that's some sort of boast about how important he is and how short life is and how he's going to conquer it.  Actually, I find it pretty self serving and ignorant, sort of like a small boy's rant.  Science has observed that we can go longer without food and water than we can without sleep.  The truth is, we are getting less and less quality sleep today than ever before. "Ever since man met machine, sleep has been on the skids."  In today's stress filled society, sleep is harder to find and more important than ever.

I want to suggest to you that the mattress that you sleep on can make a big difference in the amount and quality of sleep that you get.  I'm not suggesting that a new mattress is going to cure everything that ails you.  And a new mattress that is the wrong mattress is no better than an old wrong mattress.  In fact, you'd do well to keep the old mattress in that case and spend the savings on sedatives; forbid the thought.  

For over thirty five years I have been recommending that my customers dress down into something really comfortable and get into a "sleep shop" and "test rest" mattresses designed to meet their specific needs.  There are a handful of "trustworthy" sleep professionals that are very updated on the latest and greates products to meet your specific needs.  You won't find them at the "big box" stores or yelling and screaming about half off prices.  These are a grade of very dedicated professionals that genuinely care and have taken the time to get the knowledge you need when you are ready to get a better night's sleep.  Find one and start sleeping better tonight.  In Knoxville, Tennessee, that would be any one of The Bed Store's eight locations.