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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure is its changed much over the years but I remember the one in Kitchener. The furniture is too big and expensive.

One lesson I learned quickly when I moved to Toronto is that you need small furniture. Living spaces are just too damn small. I had a great Queen sized bed that was only 3 years old. It ended up in a dumpster. Some of these furniture places like bad boy and sleep country seem to be catering to people living in full houses.

The reality, for me at least, is that despite a high income I am living in a 8'x10' room that need to also be my office. Also I need to move frequently as rent controll is gone. places here have weird layouts so sonthing that fit nicely in your last place may not longer fit in the next place. If I can somthing that suites my needs and is a few inches smaller, I'll probably take that over other options. Even if cheaper it may last longer. Multifunctional, or collapsible is also a huge selling point for me.

Places like Ikea and Muji are the only places selling furniture I can fit. Though I really belive there can be even better options if somone is willing to make space efficient furniture that's also good quality. We see is stuff online all the time. Murphy beds that are also an office space when folded? Awesome! No one sells it here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A storied Greater Toronto Area furniture brand founded by the city's former mayor and popularized with television and radio ads proclaiming "nooobody" could beat its prices is aiming to restructure its business.

In a filing made under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act last week, Bad Boy Furniture Warehouse Ltd. said a slew of economic conditions that have weighed on consumers' shopping habits and its business forced it to make the "very difficult decision" to re-examine its operations.

The filing marks a significant turn in the history of the company started by entrepreneur Mel Lastman, who dropped out of school to work at an appliance store before opening his own on Weston Road in Toronto in 1955.

His son Blayne revived Bad Boy in the early nineties and these days, the Pickering, Ont.-headquartered retailer is wholly owned by him under Lastman Furniture Inc.

Bad Boy's Superior Court of Justice filings say its parent company owes many of its vendors, including most of its appliance and furniture suppliers.

As a result, Bad Boy is facing "significant" challenges sourcing inventory and filings show some developers have purported to terminate their contracts with the company.


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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if this is a canary in coal mine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Wasn’t a very compelling business imo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Nooooo Monnneeeyyyyyy!!!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Who's better than Bad Boy? ~~Nooooooobody!~~ The Ecooooonomy!