Comment by chiph

I've been wondering what the margins are on mattresses. You see stores selling them all over the place. There's usually only one or two employees in there, and they're devoid of shoppers most of the week (weekends are big days for them). So they have to pay rent + utilities and presumably commission, but are selling these items one-at-a-time to only occasional customers. The mark-ups have to be insane to support that.