Kimber, in a telephone interview, said that she had placed an order Tuesday for about $3,000 of traditional furniture for their living room. While they left High Point without actually ordering, Mrs.
However, the couple wanted to see their tentative selections first hand.Īfter visiting two other discount stores, they met the telephone salesclerk at Young's on North Main Street. Kimber had worked on the phone with an interior designer at Young's Furniture and Rug Company here, and she had already received price quotes, manufacturers' brochures and fabric swatches from them. The single purpose of their one-day visit was to shop for furniture for the house they had bought nine months ago. Saturday is the busiest day for walk-in customers in the discount stores, as families make a detour on their way home from a vacation in South Carolina or flying into the Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem Regional Airport after business conferences in the Southeast.īeverly Kimber of Boulder, Colo., met her husband, Richard, in High Point recently, after he finished a business meeting in Atlanta. Some of the most distinguished names in the furniture business are discounted: Baker, Drexel, Henredon, Hickory Chair, Henkel-Harris, White of Mebane, and Thomasville.
But visitors here couldn't care less - they're too busy shopping for furniture.Ĭentered around High Point, with a growing cluster between Hickory and Lenoir around 100 miles west, the Piedmont area of North Carolina has become a major center for discount furniture operations that sell first-quality furniture at discounts of 35 to 50 percent off the manufacturer's suggested retail prices.
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It's 80 degrees outside, the dogwood trees are in full bloom and the sky is the brilliant shade known throughout the state as Carolina Blue.
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