Orleans Furniture’s Ramel wins rep award
TUPELO – A furniture company is only as good as its products – and the people who sell them. Enter George Ramel, who has been a sales representative for more than 35 years for companies like Bassett, Englander Mattress, and currently, Orleans Furniture Inc.
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Luxury mattress buyers immune to sticker shock
How much is a good night's sleep worth? Hollandia International, an Israeli company, is betting that discerning Americans will pay $10,000 and up -- way up -- for a cushy mattress and a movable frame.
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Free Furniture If Red Sox Win World Series
A Boston-area retailer offers to refund the price of any mattress, dining room table, sofa or bed if the Red Sox win the World Series. About 30,000 pieces of furniture were bought during the store's season-opening promotion. The store took out insurance so it won't lose too big if the Sox go all the way.
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Despair a way of life in our camps
DICK Brown sits cross-legged on a dirty mattress in front of his bare and crumbling house at Hoppy's Camp in Alice Springs. His right leg is propped at a strange angle like a yogi's half-lotus. His wheelchair sits nearby. "You see that woman, with the bag?" Mr Brown says, pointing to a trio of town camp women making their way across the dry bed of the Todd River. "She going for the grog. Every
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