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The Original Mattress Factory, Costco and Sleep Train Are Among the Standouts for Mattress Retailers YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Buying a bed can be tricky. Different retailers rarely call a model by the same name and sales seem to be perpetual, leaving shoppers in the dark about bottom-line prices. What's a shopper to do? Consumer Reports asked 17,444 online subscribers who recently bought a mattress if they were satisfied with their purchase and where to shop to get...

SEATTLE, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- BedVoyage, a new eco-friendly home-lifestyle brand, is proud to announce the launch of its bamboo bed linens. Using only the highest thread counts and the most luxurious fabric, BedVoyage offers lavish comfort and style and is now exclusively available at BedVoyage.com. Great for travel or home, these luxurious all-in one linens consist of a top sheet secured to a deep fitted sheet with invisible-zippered, logo-embroidered pillowcases making bed assembly...

GARDENA, Calif., July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Sit 'n Sleep, the mattress superstore dedicated to providing a good night's sleep to millions of Southern Californians, today launched a new campaign focused on educating consumers around the link between the right mattress and improved sleep health and well-being. Widely-known for its ubiquitous advertising campaigns touting the best prices in town, Sit 'n Sleep's new strategic direction and corresponding advertising campaign encourage consumers to...

As a way to help free up hospital beds, a Canadian researcher suggests people should be encouraged to die at home rather than in a hospital. University of Alberta researcher Donna Wilson says that there's been a dramatic change in the location of death of Canadians. Up until 1994, about 80 percent died in a hospital, but that number has dropped to 61 percent. Wilson says she would like to see the number drop further to 40 percent as baby boomers age because this could reduce wait lists and...

LOS ANGELES, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Sit 'n Sleep announces its sponsorship of SleepBook.com -- a new educational web site designed to educate people about the importance of quality sleep. Site visitors are encouraged to take a short, but comprehensive survey about their sleep habits. Once the survey is complete, a free, customized "Sleep Book" of approximately 35 to 40 pages is generated and delivered to the user's inbox. Sleep Book users have two sleep survey choices -- instant or...

Allergist Dr. Clifford Bassett and Aller-Ease(R) share some shocking information about what lurks beneath the sheets DUQUESNE, Pa., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Beds are a sanctuary - a safe haven for rest and rejuvenation. But if most people - particularly allergy sufferers - really knew what was lurking beneath the sheets, they might think that their bed is more like a litter box than a sanctuary. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090324/NE87614LOGO ) Lying beneath the cleanest,...

FT. BRAGG, Calif., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Women are built differently than men. That's why Ft. Bragg, CA-based FloBeds has developed what is believed to be the nation's first mattress specifically for women. "It's a mattress that comfortably and intuitively recognizes the difference between straight lines and curves," says FloBeds founder Dave Turner. "All things being equal, a woman usually needs a softer mattress than a man because her bone structure is different,"...

By Guilfoil, John M HOUSE & HOME Old mattresses are heavy, uncomfortable and bad for your back. They are also environmental freeloaders. Those creaky, lumpy mattresses are made up of almost a half dozen intricately interwoven materials, making them extremely difficult to break down or recycle. They usually end up stacked in landfills, where they hog space and leach chemicals, and many landfills have refused to accept them in response. This problem attracted the attention of the...

Together with Mary Cordaro, president of H3Environmental(R) and creator of the Mary Cordaro Collection(TM) of Organic Beds and Bedding, Vivetique Sleep Systems, the nation's premier organic mattress brand based in Los Angeles, today unveiled its latest Be Well Collection by Mary Cordaro for Design Within Reach. A supremely comfortable luxury mattress with a layered, pure latex core that provides an unparalleled night's rest, the Be Well Collection contains only the highest quality 100%...

MSE Enviro-Tech Corp. (PINKSHEETS: MEVT) is pleased to announce that Hartindo AF21 supplier Megola Inc. has reported excellent results in a recent test carried out at SGS U.S. Testing Company's Consumer Services Division in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As the U.S. Sales & Distribution agent for the entire line of Hartindo products, including AF21, MSE Enviro-Tech is extremely pleased that another independent test of the effectiveness of AF21 provides yet another opportunity to aggressively pursue...