www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21686916
Parts bought by SCS Furniture, others closing with large job losses.
Dreams bust despite having, or because they had a sale 50 weeks per year
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Long overdue.
Very overpriced, but I suspect the odd expansion plan stuffed them. They opened stores in some odd places like the town I live in. Population of 20-25K many of whom are middle aged plus and will buy from the John Lewis up the road where they always have. I have never seen more customers than staff in there.
An acquaintance works at a bed manufacturer who supplies department stores. The margin these places must be making is eye watering
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Bought a bed recently for The Lad.
Dreams were pricier and less interested than Bensons.
Guess who got the order.
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Beds are, mostly, a "distress purchase", rather than something desired (like my new telly!)
In hard times folk will put off buying them until collapse of their old bed is imminent.
With a static housing market demand for new stuff for the new house is bound to be low, too.
I'm surprised that a specialist bed shop lasted so long and I don't think the new owners of the purchased ex-Dreams stores will last long either.
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I bought my current bed from Dreams. Reasonable value, but corners have been cut in the quality of the wood in the slats - I have had two break, and can't honestly claim on the warranty because I cannot be certain the youngest has not been jumping on it.
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>> I bought my current bed from Dreams. Reasonable value, but corners have been cut in
>> the quality of the wood in the slats - I have had two break, and
>> can't honestly claim on the warranty because I cannot be certain the youngest has not
>> been jumping on it.
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haha - I had to perform a bed repair on my daughters bunks a few weeks back. Apparently the slat "just broke"
A colleague who bout a bed from Dreams about 6 months ago paid almost 3K........ several quality issues which he did managed to get fixed after a few attempts, but having spent 3K he felt that the quality did not reflect what was paid, and the customer service was not to his expectations
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Dreams turns to Nightmare - mikeyb
