Comfort in mattress shopping
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Read this interesting story on mattress shopping from the Arizona Daily Star. It has some great buying tips and consumer information.
Norma and Bob Gentry really hated shopping for a new mattress. After finishing a bedroom addition to their San Clemente home, the Tucson couple decided they couldn’t bear to move their ancient king-size set into the new digs. So off they went, trudging to department stores, specialty centers, furniture stores and everywhere else they could think of. “Everything we looked at was at least $1,500,” Norma Gentry recalls. “We didn’t really have it, and we didn’t want to spend $2,000 on a bed.” Finally, late last year, they found sleep nirvana — at Costco. They settled on an approximately $850 set from Sealy Posturepedic, knocked the price down with a coupon, then added a memory-foam mattress topper.
They’re as happy as if they spent that $2,000. “It was so much cheaper, and it couldn’t be any better,” said Norma Gentry, a partner in ProVentures, a Tucson public relations firm. Her advice to the would-be mattress purchaser is succinct: “Buyer beware.”
The Gentrys are not alone in finding the world of mattresses, foundations and sleep systems a bewildering, often frustrating one. Last June, when a well-known consumer research organization published the results of its in-depth study of the products, the conclusions waved the white flag of surrender — buy what’s comfortable and stick to name brands. “Don’t let the salesperson tell you what mattress is best for you,” said Kerry Heaps, regional sales manager for the Tucson-based Bedmart. “We can, of course, listen to your needs and recommend things for you. But you are the customer, and the customer has to lie on the mattress and determine what feels best.”
But how does the innocent consumer tell what’s going to be comfortable for the next decade?
Here — gathered from mattress stores and manufacturers, Web sites and recent mattress purchasers — is some of the information you need to find the right mattress set for you. And maybe even save some money, too.
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