• Horrifying baby-cam video shows IKEA bookcase toppling onto toddler twins

    Horrifying baby-cam video shows IKEA bookcase toppling onto toddler twins

    Harrowing baby-cam video captured the moment an IKEA bookcase tipped, despite being anchored, and toppled onto 2-year-old California twins who miraculously escaped injury, according to a report. “I remember being so afraid of this happening. It felt like a very real thing that could happen to me,” Nicole Oka told USA Today in describing the …
  • Mattress business bounces back after coronavirus lockdowns end

    Mattress business bounces back after coronavirus lockdowns end

    The US mattress business has bounced back after months of shutdowns from the coronavirus pandemic kept customers away. Sales at Holder Mattress Co. were up about 30 percent last month, compared with a year ago, after the company started letting people back into its two northern Indiana stores, said Lauren Taylor, president and granddaughter of …
  • Pier 1 raking in $20M a week in online going-out-of-business sales

    Pier 1 raking in $20M a week in online going-out-of-business sales

    Going out of business has helped boost sales at Pier 1 Imports, The Post has learned. The struggling seller of glassware and wicker furniture has been raking in some $20 million a week in online going-out-of-business sales, the CEO revealed at a bankruptcy hearing on Friday. That’s better than any of its Black Friday sales …
  • Raymour & Flanigan halts reopening plans after Post exposé

    Raymour & Flanigan halts reopening plans after Post exposé

    Furniture peddler Raymour & Flanigan has halted efforts to reopen its stores in New York after The Post wrote about the controversial practice, staffers said. “We were told that we are on ‘pause’ and will get an update later today or tomorrow,” one Empire State store manager said of the orders she was given after …
  • How furniture showrooms are skirting New York lockdown laws

    How furniture showrooms are skirting New York lockdown laws

    Struggling retailers like Ethan Allen and Raymour & Flanigan have been skirting Gov. Cuomo’s lockdown rules, The Post has learned. The publicly traded Ethan Allen, for example, has been letting customers meet with dedicated sales people, known as “designers,” to browse New York showrooms on an appointment-only basis for weeks, according to employees. “We don’t …