Should You Shop At Living Quarters Furniture Store?

1/29/2013

We Orhodox Jews are very careful about every aspect of our lives. We only eat food that is kosher. Our meat is slaughtered according to Jewish Laws. Our clothing must be modest and free of shatnez. Our speech, our eyes and ears are guided by laws that prevent us from doing wrong. But when it comes to buying furniture are all bets off? Should we look the other way and buy a couch or bedroom set from someone that does not conduct business in a way a good Jew should?

Recently it was revealed that the new Living Quarters store, owned by the Friedman family of Brooklyn bought Dina's Dinettes and proceeded to threaten their suppliers not to sell to our local furniture stores.

These stores that are owned by Lakewood residents are now suffering because of the owner of Living Quarters' unscrupulous conduct.

If The Friedman family wants to be known as the fine Jews they like to make themselves out to be, they will call all the companies that they threatened and tell them to please sell to all the other Lakewood furniture stores. If they can't do that then perhaps the families of Lakewood should not shop at their stores.

20 Comments

Anon

1/29/2013 10:10:35 am

Let's start a boycott, Can the Lakewood Times arrange this?

1/29/2013 11:49:17 pm

This is sick and disgusting, My wife and i were shopping for furniture for out daughter and this is one place we will NOT be shopping in.

Please let us know if he continues this or has called the manufactures and told them to start selling again.

Maybe the Stores affected should take him to DIN TORAH

Dovid

1/30/2013 01:11:39 am

Whats wrong with competition and business? They had the money and they bough it. That's business.

1/30/2013 02:47:32 am

Dovid, did you read the article? Oh i forgot, your from the cheder, where they teach you what exactly??? English?? Nah, can't be.

Anyways, back to the subject, No one said there is anything wrong with competition, read the damn post and you will see, it was what they told the suppliers.

If you want to compete, do it fair and square, offer better pricing, better customer service, etc... not by forcing the suppliers not to sell to other stores.

Cheder Kid

1/30/2013 05:15:22 am

There is no reason to bad mouth a Choshuv school that has produced thousands of ben torahs in the world, please keep your nasty comments to yourself.

Prou "Cheder" kid!

1/30/2013 09:01:58 am

You should be ashamed of yourself! First thin you started with is by making fun of someone ("cheder kid)" for not knowing "English".

Then, when I read your next line, despite my minor "cheder education", I almost threw up from nausea at YOUR illiteracy!

Any Cheder kid knows, that "anyways" is NOT a proper word. I didn't even finish reading your comment yet. Well, anyway, I got you a proper explanation below.

We writers often have to contend with compound words that begin their life as two words only to eventually morph into one. “Backyard” is a good example. It originally was two words, “back yard,” used to describe the area behind a house. Sometime in the mid-1600s, it successfully made the transition to a single compound word.

Then there are other compounds that are in limbo, somewhere in the midst of the transition from two words to one. Consider “health care,” a topic on everyone’s mind these days. If you Google it, you’ll get about 63 million returns for the two-word compound but a whopping 129 million for the single word “healthcare.” That’s a good indicator that the single word will soon be standard. However, most style manuals still mandate the two-word version.

To complicate matters even further, we have words with separate meanings as a single-word compound or as two individual words. “Anyway” and “any way” are two that often perplex writers. These are entirely different terms that do indeed have distinct meanings.

“Anyway” is an adverb, and it means regardless or in any event:

Marshall’s grades have slipped, but he plans to apply to Harvard anyway.

“Any way” is a paired adjective and noun meaning any particular course, direction, or manner:

Chloe is willing to help Marshall prepare for the SAT in any way she can.

Then we have “anyways,” a colloquial corruption of “anyway.” It’s universally considered nonstandard and should be avoided altogether. It might help to remember that “anyway” is an adverb, and adverbs can’t be plural.

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/anyway-any-way-or-anyways/

cheder kid

1/30/2013 10:20:41 pm

thank sfor sticking upbutt you are insane

1/31/2013 12:55:22 am

I'm not sticking anything upbutt the other guy - not for you, against him!

Chofetz

1/30/2013 02:26:33 am

This is at least rechilus, probably motzi shem rah. Other than the competition who is understandably concerned with their future, do you have any independent corroboration for your bold accusations?
By this logic, one could surmise that the lack of a significant other toy store in town (weird isnt it?) must be because some incumbent is using nasty tactics to keep competition away.
If you have the beef, show it. If you don't, stow it!

1/30/2013 02:57:55 am

What changed besides ownership? NOTHING, so if this store was here already why would the other stores be so concerned?

Come on, you can't be so foolish to actually believe the other stores are all ganging up together and making this story up?

This store was in Lakewood and selling the same stuff the other stores were, and all of a sudden the suppliers stopped selling them.

WOW, it must be a coincident, right? Wake up and smell the coffee. Or maybe your just that guy that owns the store.,

It's amazing how you guys twist the story and don't talk about what actually happened here.

read the damn post.

this is NOT ABOUT A NEW STORE opening up. It's about an old store that was purchased by new owners and told the supplier not to sell to the other existing stores that have accounts with these suppliers and have purchased in the past.

I wonder if this would happen to you in your business, what would you do?

Again, this is not about competition, this is about mafia tactics.

Yossel Farbertug

1/30/2013 09:05:55 am

To Mr. Anon,

Do SAY "damn" with your mouth as well? or do you onlky curse when you post anonymously?

1/30/2013 09:06:30 am

Do *you SAY...

just saying

1/30/2013 09:10:34 am

To Anon at1:47pm,
Hey Einstein, you wrote: "Oh, i forgot your from the cheder,where they teach you what exactly??? "
You incorrectly wrote "your" - the possessive, instead of "you're" - the contraction. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black...

gobbldygook

1/30/2013 09:11:20 am

funny how the jerk who is making fun of the cheder for not teaching english can't spell. It's "you're from the cheder" not "your from the cheder." Also, you seem totally in the dark about how commas and periods are supposed to be used. no wonder you're anon.

To gentle Anon

1/30/2013 09:26:02 am

You make some very good points.
You've got anger management issues.

Joe

1/30/2013 09:27:52 am

As observant and scrupulous Jews aren't we supposed to go to a Beis Din? A Rav at least? How does a Jew affect the business of another Jew without a proper investigation? What other businesses are not acting ethically? I was going to ask if you own one of the affectd stores but that isn't relevant if we look at things as observant Jews.

2/4/2013 08:20:06 am

1) I some how missed the part on them telling suppliers not to sell to others. While that is "legal" and "business" it is sickening.
2) Yes I am a cheder kid making 6 digits with no HS diploma. And yes all on the books, I own my home, never got hud welfare or food stamps and I pay my taxes. I am a very proud cheder kid.

Antonio

2/15/2014 08:30:38 am

Living Quarters from Brooklyn are CROOKS. We just moved to NY from Europe and these reckless crooks sold my wife a fake Natusi Sofa. She has had an experience she didn't deserve in her new Hometown...before deleting this post, please write to the email address provided and i ill share full, sad details.

We still love America though - these type of people just shouldn't be allowed n

Vicky

5/5/2014 04:04:10 am

THESE PPL ARE THIEVES!!!! They stole our money and brought us damaged furniture and wouldn't take responsibility!! They don't know how to treat customers he doesn't know how to run a business if u want to get raped for your money and treated like your a no body than go here other wise stay far away they are HORRIBLE PEOPLE AND A HORRIBLE BUSINESS!!!

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