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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!sfpp.com!longo
- Newsgroups: la.general
- Subject: Re: Furniture Outlet Store?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.101451.1@sfpp.com>
- From: longo@sfpp.com (Bob Longo)
- Date: 3 Jan 93 10:14:51 GMT
- References: <9212310518.AA16603@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> <1i5h1gINNmts@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1i5h1gINNmts@gap.caltech.edu>, tylerh@cco.caltech.edu (Tyler R. Holcomb) writes:
- > atrium!sysop@bodedo.UUCP writes:
- >
- >>Is there any furniture outlet stores in the LA area? Or a superstore?
- >
- >>Please post in this newsgroup for the benefit of others.
- >
- > for OFFICE furniture, which is typically well-built and surprisingly
- > versatile, I recommend the clust of used office furniture store clostered
- > about the 605/10 interchange, and RB furniture in particular.
- >
-
- RB Furniture stores were going through the longest bankruptcy going out of
- business sale in history. As a matter of fact, under the mask of inventory
- clearance, they were still ordering new merchandise! Apparently they were
- making more money in their clearance sale than normal, so a bankruptcy
- judge let them - for a while - to earn more money to be able to pay off
- creditors.
-
- Unless I'm mistaken, all RBs are now closed, and their several month long
- "inventory clearance" sale is finally over.
-
- Angeles furniture was a good store (it was off I-5), but it too has close
-