Marketplace did a story on exactly this phenomenon: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/05/02/world/why-are-there-so-many-mattress-stores http://www.marketplace.org

Marketplace did a story on exactly this phenomenon: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/05/02/world/why-are-there-so-many-mattress-stores http://www.marketplace.org/2016/05/02/world/why-are-there-so... To sum it up: "Mattress stores have low overhead, low labor costs and higher-than-usual profit margins, Sam Woods said, Senior Vice President of Sales and Operations for Mattress Firm. “If you sold three or four beds a day, and your average ticket is $1,000, that’s a $4,000 day, times 365. All of a sudden you’ve got more than a million-dollar business there,” he said."