May 2023/ Vol. 2, Issue 1 -Our Industry Outlook, Bringing sustainability to the mattress industry
behind the scenes...
Catch-up with what's happening at A. Interior Decor Home Accents and the Industry!
We are changing our Newsletter publications from monthly to quarterly starting on the 3rd quarter, as we are entering our busy season.
In Our Industry Outlook, read about how the mattress industry is doing more to keep mattresses from filling up the landfills.
Our Source: Furniture Today
What We’re Up To
Happy Spring!!!
I would like to start by saying Thank You! for subscribing to Our Newsletter.
Geez!
It feels like its been since forever since our last newsletter. That could only mean one of two things -we were super busy or we had nothing noting to report -or both.
Well, we certainly have been busy!
We're expanding our selection to include, wallpaper, fabrics and more home decor. Big brand names like Kravet, Lee Jofa and Burnschwig & Fils. Coming Soon!
We have also included Scented Candles as another product category. The candles are handcrafted / hand-poured, eco-friendly and organic.
Learn more... by visiting Our online store a-interior-decor.myshopify.com
When you're on the menu bar in our store just click on Decor and scroll to Candles/Candleholders. We have an assortment of nice scents... Garden Apothecary, Peppermint & Eucalyptus, Coffeehouse, Palo Santo (my personal favorite) and more! They also make nice gifts.
Speaking of Gifts...
I guess there is a little something to share / report. We love it when we receive customer reviews on our services and products. We also love it when a customer just expresses joy when they've found the right gift they have been looking for.
A customer was looking for a gift (the cup you see in the photo below). She has been was looking for a gift for a while for her music Minister and well, here's what she had to say...
“I have been looking for the perfect gift for our minister of music. This is it.”
Gwendolyn H., Mississippi
As I read her review, I felt her joy! Lol... I also felt joy in that we were able to put a smile on the customers face and had what she was looking for!
I know how it feels to finally find what you have been searching for and finally, to know the search is over... lol
Gwendolyn, if your reading this Months Newsletter here's a big Thank You! for sharing.
OUR INDUSTRY OUTLOOK
Bringing sustainability to the mattress industry
We would like to think that Covid-19 is the blame for all our troubles but, the truth to the matter is that Covid-19 only exposed our problems.
In our past articles on Our Industry Outlook, I covered issues on supply and demand, logistics, customs and manufacturing and, its issues on the high cost of commodities. Like with anything else, as the cost of commodities go up the quality of products go down, thus creating ripple effects.
One aspect of the industry gaining attention for these ripple effects is the mattress industry.
Long before covid-19 many mattress manufacturers were manufacturing mattress on the lower-end spectrum creating a revolving door for repeat customers (retailers). That being the intent. As a result, retailers were selling to their customers also creating a repeat base. And as the cycle would go, the manufacture makes it for cheap and sells it for cheap, the retailer buys it for cheap and sells it for a profit, the customers buys it and after a year or so it loses it comfort level forcing the customer to dispose of the mattress most likely at a landfill and then return to the same retail or one alike and re-purchase a new low-end quality mattress repeating the cycle.
So now what we have is a compounded problem.
The the disposal of mattresses due to fast track business models and the additional disposal of mattresses during the start of covid-19; since we were spending more time at home, investing in mattresses to elevate our comfort made all the sense in the world.
"According to several estimates, more than 20 million discarded mattresses end up in U.S. landfill every year. That's more than 50,000 mattresses a day that take up 132,000 square miles of landfill space".
What we hope to see moving forward are more states joining in on mattress recycling programs. As we speak, there are three states that are currently part of a recycling program; there's "California, Connecticut and Rhode Island with Oregon being number four in 2024". We do hope to see New York join soon!