This is a chain furniture and appliances store. It started in the Hamilton area in the 1920's. This new St. Catharines location soft-opened on 2024-05-03 and grand-opened on 2024-08-02.
During the grand opening period, there are free hotdogs and pop/water, catered by Gerard The Hot Dog Man. The hotdog was delicious.
All their stores have the same big format, possibly bigger than a large Canadian Tire. There is a big retail store which houses their living room furniture, sleep furniture, and appliances (eg. kitchen), and electronics (eg. exercise machines, massage chairs). They also have furniture that can fit in small apartments/condos.
They also have free self-serve hot drinks machine and freshly made popcorn. The popcorn starts 1 hour before the store opening to make the scent of popcorn linger throughout the entire store.
There is also a children's playground area to keep them busy while the potential purchases can concentrate on buying (great strategy!).
At the other end of the store, there is their outlet store. When discontinuing a product, it goes to this side of the store. All products there are new, but also discounted. The outlet store has a 0% interest 60-month payment plan.
The nice thing about this chain is that everyone you deal with is their employee, not any third party, from sales, customer service, to delivery.
The sales staff work on commission. You can purchase from any store and have it delivered or picked up from any of their stores. The sales staff are very courteous and pleasant.
There store is wheelchair accessible. There are separate male/female/family washrooms, and all of them are wheelchair accessible. There is free parking in their large private parking lot.
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