Thank you! 😊 like I said it's just been an odd winter for us and was curious if other retail furniture stores were experiencing the same thing?

The additional decor really did help with my business as well. It dresses the store up, I can group different couches and chairs together with coffee tables and end tables with just dressing them up a bit. I've noticed a good 50% of my customers tend to buy the whole grouping. You are 💯 correct it doesn't pay the lease but it adds up fast! Good luck to you and have a great 2024.

I'd be curious to know this as well; is it a general improvement over time Year-over-Year or do you think there are other factors that contributed to it being a really good winter season?

For us honestly we didn't have our so called snowbirds leave Michigan for Florida or Arizona. We had our warmest winter since 1889 and the same for snow records broke there as well. We plowed 1 time this year! People want to get out and our store is big and they can look for hours. The decor and mixture of new and used really kicked it in for me.

I used to live in the Upper Peninsula, so I'm very familiar with the exodus of folks down to the south every winter. That's really great that people stuck around and cam into your store!

Honestly, adding in more decor, doing not just brand new or custom built furniture. Not every one needs or can afford a new table set or sectional but they still want a little something different. A picture, a lamp, a cannister set. I watch and listen a lot and now hardly ever does someone walk out with a little something. Those little somethings added up fast! And opened a whole new window or market for us! 

We are selling more decor than every! Lamps, pictures, shelves down to little decor items. 

We sell brand new furniture,  custom built like the white washed table and decor new and used as well. It's works great for us in Central Michigan. 

Believe it or not lamps and big pictures are ones I'm ordering every week? I never thought lamps were so popular or needed 🤔 I hear most women say they just built a new home or moved into a newer house and they have less windows and lighting? So lamps seem to fly out. I use to have them mostly for decor in the store but not now I sell them everyday! 

That's good though. Money is money! I was curious if other countries was trending up or stagnant. Good luck to you!