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This is a huge loss IMO, buying kitchen supplies and bedding on Amazon is complete shit. Target isn't much better due to lack of variety and types of bedding.
by bearjaws 4y ago
This is a huge loss IMO, buying kitchen supplies and bedding on Amazon is complete shit. Target isn't much better due to lack of variety and types of bedding.
I've bought the same bed sheets for 5+ years, a few months ago I bought new ones since some bleach got spilt on one set, it comes in and I could tell immediately the quality was far worse.
One wash later, its ripping & fraying. Thankfully I could return them. Sure enough the seller is a fake typo squatted version of the original seller.
This isn't even my only example, bought a kitchen cutlery set from Amazon during the pandemic since my old one had the handles separating. I get the new set, ONE run in the dish washer and they start to RUST. Hundreds of positive reviews of course.
BBB always had high quality (and expensive) items, I had my last set of BBB cutlery for over a decade.
- ytreyrty 4y agowal mart and department stores exist. bed bath and beyond was almost always super overpriced, and the quality on a lot of things isnt the best.
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- mosdl 4y agoAgreed, you basically now only have discounters who sell in store small appliances/kitchen supplies. It must not be profitable enough since there are really no other stores in that market other then BBB.
- Encrypt-Keeper 4y agoNot sure what you mean, most if not all department stores today sell small kitchen appliances and supplies. From Target and Walmart to Macys
- dragontamer 4y agoThey call stores like Bed Bath and Beyond a "category killer" for a reason. If a BBBY hits your mall, there's no point selling appliance / kitchen supplies there. You simply can't compete.
- Finnucane 4y agoIf your store is clean, reasonably well stocked, and has minimally competent sales staff, you might be preferable to a BBBy.
- dragontamer 4y agoToday, sure. But I'm talking about even in October 2022, just a few months ago. No one was going to open a bedding store when BBBY was within walking distance.
- Finnucane 4y agoNo, we're going to order from LL Bean. We gave up on BBY years ago, the service has sucked for a long time.
- selectodude 4y agoDoes LL Bean sell frying pans now?
- Finnucane 4y agohttps://www.globeequipment.com/ https://www.globeequipment.com/
- Animats 4y agoI want to buy a mattress. Mattress review sites are all phony. Amazon is all phony reviews. Mattress FIRM is hugely overpriced. Bed, Bath, and Beyond's brands were just names they'd acquired. That entire industry has managed to shoot itself in the foot. Probably better to order from an actual manufacturer on Alibaba.
- goostavos 4y agoAlso, FYI, with mattress firm, your warranty is null and void if you ever spill anything on your bed. I bought a mattress from them and within a year, in the literal use of the term, came apart at the seams. One night I woke up and my elbow was... in the bed rubbing against a spring. I assumed such a structural failing would be under warranty, but they rejected it because of a roughly 2" stain on the mattress. Apparently, that stain was structural. I'm still salty about it.
- cjohnson318 4y agoMy bed developed a huge sink hole within three months. I was able to take it back, but c'mon. I'm average weight, and I bought the mattress brand new. We paid an arm and a leg later for a Sleep Number and it's been totally fine for years and years.
- treeman79 4y agoSmall claims court.
- pseg134 4y agoThe only place to get a new mattress these days and not get ripped off is Costco
- Animats 4y agoThey're still 5x more expensive than Alibaba. Which is where most mail order mattresses come from. Making a mattress costs under $100.
- Hasz 4y agoIMO, Costco does a good job of balancing quality and price.
- jandrese 4y agoBut terrible at offering selection. If you don't like the color, well, tough because that's the one they stock. Maybe if you're lucky they'll have a second color or style for sale.
- Invictus0 4y agoThat's what sheets are for...
- Gunnerhead 4y agoOr: You saw it last week? We’ll, too bad. We have a completely new set for sale today. I say this as a huge Costco shopper and fan. Serendipity and spontaneity is the name of the game at Costco.
- cjohnson318 4y agoTotally agree. Online shopping is only going to get worse: more expensive, less quality, harder to return. On the other hand, brick and mortar places are going to have less variety, and lower quality. You'll spend more time driving all over town to return things or driving all over town to find simple things in stores. Fifteen years ago Target had some pretty solid clothing options, but now it's basically only good for t-shirts and underwear. I just want to go to a store that has what I need, at the right level of quality, with enough clerks working at any given time. I'll pay extra for that.
- trog 4y ago> Totally agree. Online shopping is only going to get worse: more expensive, less quality, harder to return. On the other hand, brick and mortar places are going to have less variety, and lower quality What I am hoping might change things is a near-total collapse in the value of commercial & retail real estate. This is clearly already happening and doesn't show any signs of slowing - who is going to take a long term, expensive lease on retail real estate now?! But once prices have collapsed & property owners are forced to adjust to the new reality, I'm hopeful it might lead to a bunch of new competitors able to roll the dice by focusing on smaller scale speciality stuff, which will eventually grow. Kinda like capitalism has promised forever, except maybe this time it might actually happen?!
- pavon 4y agoI greatly preferred JC Penny Home Store as it had better prices than BBB but better selection than general stores like Target/Walmart (and I often liked the bedding/curtain patterns they carried better). Unfortunately their financial troubles caused them to consolidate the Home Store into their main stores, and the selection is now no better than those later options, and I've thus been going to BBB more often. I hope this is a restructuring and not a shutdown. It will be crummy for there to be no stores filling the gap between Target and William Sonoma.
- MandieD 4y ago"The gap between Target and Williams Sonoma" is a decent summary of my frustration with an awful lot of product selection in both the US and in Germany.
- bombcar 4y agoWilliams Sonoma always feels like the sky mall catalog; overpriced and basically as crappy. It’s quite annoying to find actually good products- it’s usually still possible but takes some serious digging.
- crazygringo 4y agoNo, BBB had low quality crazy overpriced items. Yes it was good to be able to see and try items before buying, but then they'd just fall apart. With Amazon, yeah it sucks I sometimes have to return things because you couldn't try it in person. But on the other hand, I wind up buying much higher quality items on Amazon, and at a cheaper price, because the top 15 reviews together usually give really solid feedback on how the item is holding up after a year or two. When there are 500 or 5,000 reviews on an item, you generally know what quality you're going to get. At BBB that was never the case. Especially with so many items manufactured exclusively for BBB.
- crooked-v 4y agoI tend to find myself extremely dubious of Amazon reviews for anything but a brand I know and more-or-less trust already. There's just too much product listing manipulation and too many fake reviews.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoI think it really depends. If an item is 4.5 stars with over 10,000 reviews, I find it's pretty trustworthy. It's when it has under 100 that I raise an eyebrow. Under 20, and it's most likely fake.
- solarmist 4y agoBBB had high prices, but I've never gotten the impression that there was anything low quality. Besides the as seen on tv crap they added over the last few years. EDIT: I didn't know about the store brand push.
- crazygringo 4y agoIt wasn't just the store brands that came more recently, but the longtime "name" brands that made lines of items exclusively for BBB. This was especially the case with things like bedding, shower curtains, towels, bathmats, anything with memory foam, and so forth. They were just overpriced crap, you'd discover after a few months.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 4y agoHave you been to BBB lately? They tried to pivot to store brands, people didn’t like that, then they tried to pivot back to name brands but couldn’t afford the inventory. That’s why they are bankrupt.
- SoftTalker 4y agoI agree about Amazon (I never buy anything there anymore) but BBB was pretty shit too, in terms of products. Lots of plastic garbage made in the third world, maybe a few name brand untensils and small appliances. Last things I bought there were new pillows, they turned into bags of cement within a few months.
- mrguyorama 4y agoGirlfriend and I bought new, $30 "jersey cotton" sheets from Target. They are already piling and we only had them 2 months. Everything is made to be trash nowadays.
- Entinel 4y agoTarget is much better than Amazon They may not have the wide variety you want but what they do have is good enough for the price.
- bombcar 4y agoJust be sure to scan the in store barcode and make sure it’s not cheaper on target.com; it often is and they you have to ask for a price adjustment after purchase.
- WillPostForFood 4y agoIf you want kitchen supplies, brick and mortar, and quality, Sur La Table and Williams Sonoma are both better then BB&B.
- Arrath 4y agoGod help me if I ever took my GF to Sur La Table, I'd need a line of credit handy.
- alx__ 4y agoYou're right on their cookware and bed sheets. But the rest of the store is basically Amazon trash in a retail store :(
- elhudy 4y agoIf you want high quality home goods from amazon then you have to search for high quality materials: silk, linen, wool. Same for knives: damascus steel, high carbon steel, etc. If you just search for knives or sheets, or even cotton/bamboo sheets, the results are all a commoditized race to the bottom on price.
- 0x457 4y agoThe only thing BBB was good at is spending that 20% coupon they send on some expensive item (iRobot Roomba for example or a Dyson). Everything else is overpriced and low quality, or costs the same as on amazon.
- Spooky23 4y agoFor bedding, etc, LL Bean or IKEA is the way to go. For kitchen stuff, William Sonoma or Crate & Barrel. It costs more but you get more. In the 1990s, you could count on department stores for this stuff, but now you need to go up market. BBB was great until about 5-6 years ago. The previous management made some execution errors and ended up messing up the product mix.