this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
576 points (98.6% liked)

Asklemmy

43950 readers
1106 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Mastens@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mattress Firm.

...I've said to much...

[โ€“] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Like who the fuck needs to buy mattresses so often that theres gotta be a Mattress Firm on every corner.

And whats with the name? Its so weird... Mattress Firm?

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 11 points 1 year ago

And whats with the name? Its so weird... Mattress Firm?

I think it's a fun name. It's got a double meaning. They're a firm (business) that sells mattresses, and mattresses can also be firm.

[โ€“] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] NABDad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was going to be called Mattress Soft, Medium, or Firm, but then they got the quote from the sign company and changed the name to Mattress Firm.

[โ€“] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

But then I'd expect them to be selling software

[โ€“] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Right, who buys that many mattresses that there needs to be three large mattress shops in the one area and than another actual house shop like Harvey Norman furniture right near by too

[โ€“] Scrollone@feddit.it 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you Italian? Because there's a famous mattress firm that does ads all the time on TV, and they've been doing it for 30+ years.

There was a satirical magazine many years ago where people could vote for "the best things list", and one of the items on the list was always "let's chase away the Mafia from town of the mattress firm"