Nebraska Furniture Mart (Houston, Plano, Allen: consignment, house, buying)

[dallas_cowboy]

Originally Posted by Bruin85

In my mind, Fry's is usually cheapest for electronics & appliances. Is it cheaper than Fry's?

I bought PC and found their price cheaper than anywhere else (cheaper than Costco, Fry's, Best Buy, Amazon). Because Intel's new generation CPU is going to come out so they reduced the price heavily to attract a quick sale. Very happy with the purchase. Their prices do change once to twice in a day and it's already up from the price I bought.

[Pagusas]

Originally Posted by little elmer

We went yesterday and I'll pass on a word to the wise: remember where you parked - they haven't marked the aisles in any way.

We were in such awe when we pulled up, that our attention wasn't on our surroundings; since it's like a semi-circular airport hanger, the entire lot is spread out in front of the store and the store has several entrances. There were several groups of people staggering around after their shopping experience that we met while we were on our exploration.

The aisles are indeed marked. We took a picture of ours when we went in so we'd remember because the lot is so dang huge.

[Laminate7]

I went today to NFM - its near my house...

For PC stuff stick to Microcenter (better than frys imho) on 75
For furniture i like Weirs better
NFM does have a lot of nice kitchen appliances - especially high end kitchen items
I did purchase a end table and drove to the pickup area (you have to get back into your car and drive to the far back right of the building into a loading area). The item was not checked and loaded on my truck. When i got home i found that the endtable had huge gashes in the front of it and i was furious (where is the quality checking???).

I called them and they apologized and would swap it out this thurday at no cost via their delivery truck....

I would say go to them for rugs or appliances. Most of the furniture looked like chinese junk to me - stick to weirs or other mid/high end places...

[globe9]

We went to NFM yesterday and I must say everyone here was right. It was huge and almost overwhelming. We were browsing sectionals and king beds and will say that we never found what we were looking for in the leather sectional area. Not to say that they didn't have it, but that after walking around for 30 mins in the leather sectional area we just hadn't come across anything remotely like we were looking for. Finally just gave up.

As for king beds. Everything did seem like cheap particle board or wood of unknown origin(rubber wood?) I asked a salesperson if they had any solid wood bed frames and he looked confused for a sec and told me they all were. Lol Maybe they need better training.

Two interesting things I learned while speaking to an employee:
1. All of the price tags are digital b/c someone goes to Weirs, Rooms To Go, Fry's, Best Buy etc etc etc everyday to price match items and NFM will lower their prices based on this. The prices on an item at NFM can and will change several times a day.

2. Someone mentioned it was weird that Rooms To Go was building directly across the street. The employee said the heads of NFM were happy about this. He said they'd put that Rooms to Go location out of business in about 6 months and NFM would use that bldg for their outlet center. They were happy they won't have to build it. Seemed kinda cocky, but from what I know about NFM, it's probably true.

Overall, I guess I'd shop there, but it would be after checking out much closer furniture stores.

[Johnhw2]

Some friends were looking for a higher end leather sleeper sofa. The selection was small, ten items and were not well made. They were low price but did not cover the price quality range they wanted to see. Star is a brooks hire Hathaway owned similar concept to NFM but based in Houston. They carry name brands from high to low end as does Mathes brothers (sp?) in OKC. Expected the same range coverage but they did not find it in their target product.

[globe9]

I definitely wasn't impressed with the quality of much of the furniture we looked at, but I'm not sure how they had it set up. Maybe I missed the high end section

[6oo9]

I went there yesterday. They have a a little freeway system leading to the store's entrance.

[AFJag]

There was some higher quality furniture is on the second floor, in a separate enclosed section near the mattresses.

[little elmer]

Based on the name of the store, you'd think they would take pride in their furniture quality.

[TheOverdog]

I went there yesterday, thought it was kind of a dump - kind of like The Dump. If I were actually shopping for beds or furniture, I'd go there of course to check selection and prices, but other than that, no way. The prices nor quality didn't seem all that special, and the sales staff is as annoying as any furniture store.

I wouldn't go there for their flooring, or for their electronics.