<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4091603354573036625</id><updated>2011-10-04T11:57:02.192-07:00</updated><category term='lifestyle'/><category term='home'/><category term='furniture stores'/><category term='small business'/><category term='furnishings'/><category term='consumer'/><category term='local'/><title type='text'>Furniture Mississauga</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://furnituremississauga.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4091603354573036625/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://furnituremississauga.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Susan Lee</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17071217241583519742</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WnoXLjm31tM/S4NFYBd8rSI/AAAAAAAAABY/RMBhV3-HZa0/S220/p_025.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4091603354573036625.post-5854472592246457117</id><published>2010-02-22T19:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-22T19:57:43.907-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='furnishings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='furniture stores'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lifestyle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consumer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='small business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='local'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home'/><title type='text'>Do You Shop Local &amp; Independent? You Might Want to Consider It!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WnoXLjm31tM/S4NN_zZnNEI/AAAAAAAAAB8/53NqVzR3Jng/s1600-h/nestchair.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 155px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WnoXLjm31tM/S4NN_zZnNEI/AAAAAAAAAB8/53NqVzR3Jng/s320/nestchair.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441278533318423618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;What's the Difference Between Buying Local &amp;amp; Independent Vs. Buying Big Box Chain?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The massive furniture chain shops run on commission structures to pay their sales people and are incredibly aggressive. Overall, it's a very tense shopping experience at these spots. The &lt;a href="http://furnituremississauga.tumblr.com/"&gt;independent furniture shops&lt;/a&gt;, on the different hand, operate a little differently. Many sales reps here don't operate alone on commission. The entire buying experience is different and calm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;True, their choice isn't as huge, but the overall purchasing encounter is poles apart from their counterparts. In the independent stores you are actually left only to browse around. You additionally receive a more own assistance in a calm atmosphere. In many methods the independents give you a designer concentration. You're not also simply another number to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The general overhead for independent shops is much less and also they can provide the identical chunk of furniture at a much lower cost and with various choices. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The purchasing power is very different for both. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;When the huge chain shops buy, they purchase containers worth of one type of furniture. Only by doing this can they provide a 3 day delivery or fewer. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;There are no alternatives here. You want a particular sofa in a different textile? Too bad. It's only provided in one fabric. You want a different end on a special room set. Too bad. It's only available in a single finish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A furniture shop chain is a big machine that merely pumps out furniture. This isn't merely accurate for massive chains in Toronto and Mississauga, this is true to all of the GTA area, but also the rest of the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The majority of independent furniture shops do not offer that fast of a delivery time. It is not possible if they desire to provide a option of fabrics and finishes. What the huge chain sites fail to understand is that an actual shopper might like the shape of a specific sofa but not the fabric that's on it. What if they also wish a specific textile on the pillows? In the impartial furniture stores, you can truly sit down, provide in the sample of your wall color, and try to coordinate it with the fabric on your preferred sofa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;What happens when the furniture gets damaged during the offering?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happens when a chunk of furniture should be repaired? Once in a while, things do go wrong. It's not an ideal world out there, but the massive furniture shops chains deal with trouble differently than the independent furniture stores. Once gain, to the big guys you're just another number. That's how they function. It's a large technology. When you try to hit them on the phone you get an endless loop of "press one" for this, "push two" for this, etc. Good luck trying to get a live person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you attempt to request an independent furniture shop for customer service, it's very different. You get a live individual. You are not only another number to them and the issue is usually remedied much more rapidly with the independents. The restoration crew generally is usually identical delivery guys that convey the furniture for the shop. They know how to appropriately fix a particular chunk because they deliver and set up that same chunk on a regular basis. They are not an exterior organization hired to accomplish repairs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, next time, when you are buying furniture chose one of the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoEIq348q4k"&gt;small business local  furniture stores&lt;/a&gt;. 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