Bobs Discount Furniture

Bob's discount furniture has been called the fastest growing furniture store in the Northeast.

Bob's was named the 2008 Furniture Retailer of the Year by Furniture Today Magazine, the furniture industry's weekly newspaper. BDF (Bob's Discount Furniture) moved into the number one slot after having been number twenty in 2007 with over $418 million in sales for that year.

BDF has 31 stores located in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island.

The stores are known to carry high quality furniture. Shoppers agree that it isn't your typical discounted furniture store.

This is one retail chain that knows how to treat their customers. Some of the stores operate a free café where complimentary cookies and candy along with gourmet coffee are served. If that's not enough to make you want to enter one of their stores, then perhaps another perk found in a few of their locations will. Select locations have a wonderful surprise in store for visitors. They offer a home theater and a video arcade to entertain your kids while you shop.

While you can certainly purchase furniture from any store and have it delivered to your home, you can also pick up your purchase at the Distribution Center in Taftville, Connecticut, or one of the store's pick-up locations. Depending on where you live, you can use one of the pick-up facilities if you wish to save on delivery charges. There are two pick-up facilities. One is located in Nashua, New Hampshire, and one is in North Brunswick, New Jersey.

BDF guarantees their merchandise is free from manufacturing defects unless you purchase merchandise from one of their Clearance Centers. Each purchase comes with a one-year warranty. However, a few manufacturers have longer warranties which Bob's also honors. You'll need to discuss what kind of warranty and service agreements come with your furniture.

There are 12 Clearance Centers that the company also refers to as the Pit. These centers are clearinghouses for odds and ends. Here you'll find a mixture of floor samples and slightly damaged merchandise.

Because these are the leftovers so to speak, none of the merchandise purchased in one of Bob's outlets is covered with the same kind of warranty and service agreement you'll find in the main stores. You'll need to arrange to pick up your purchases because there's no home delivery from these outlets.

• No Warranties
• No Returns
• No Exchanges
• No Service
• No Refunds

If you have the time and the patience, you might find a great bargain at one of these outlets. You may discover the damaged area is in the back of the furniture where no one will see it. It could be that one of the pieces in a bedroom suite has a mismatched finish and so that piece is being sold separately. When it's sold as a single piece of furniture, you won't be able to tell it's a lighter shade than the other pieces in the suite and is perfect for your needs.

When you go to Bob's website, you'll discover a convenient time-saving tool, Bob's Room Planner. If you use a pop-up blocker, you'll need to temporarily allow pop-ups for the site. This online tool allows you to enter the room dimensions and gives you a very basic room layout.

You can't add windows or door openings to the layout, but you can drag and drop all kinds of furniture to get an idea how your new furniture will fit into your home. Once you've added a piece of furniture to the room, the program allows you to turn it around until you have it where you want it.

A great feature to this program is that you can change the room selections for different pieces of furniture. If you want to add a piece of furniture traditionally found in certain rooms, you can do so easily. Once your layout is finished, you can save and print it. For those undecided on the best layout, you can create more than one room arrangement.

This is a company that truly gives back to the local communities. It's a well-known fact that Bob Kaufman, company owner and founder, is a long-time supporter of many charities and non-profit organizations.

Bob Kaufman was awarded the 2008 Biomedical Achievement Award from the American Red Cross. His company group, known as the Bob Squad collected over 20,000 units of blood as a result of blood drive promotions during the past 11 years. You'll find the Bob Squad logo on the company's website. Along with his employees, Kaufman supports over a hundred non-profit organizations.

Some of those charities include:

• American Cancer Society
• American Red Cross
• Connecticut Children's Medical Center
• March of Dimes
• Marshall House Youth and Family Emergency Shelter
• National Conference for Community Justice
• Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Salvation Army

Another way that this furniture store helps local communities is through an outreach program. The company's Random Acts of Kindness Van can be seen each month as it sets out to surprise a non-profit organization that has been chosen to receive a check for $1,000.

Bob's is also paying it forward through its elementary school contest. Seven schools were awarded $3,000 grants each by BDF. The grants are to be used to further the education of cultural arts programs for the 2008 – 2009 school year.

Bob's Discount Furniture offers quality furniture products at discounted prices, but it's the company’s many charitable endeavors that inspires its patrons.

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