The Profit Prophet

The Mattress Store on Every Corner: How an Industry Built on Sleeping Convinced America to Never Stop Buying Beds

Episode Summary

There are more mattress stores in the United States than Starbucks locations — and almost none of them should be profitable. This week, we pull back the sheets on the bizarre economics of the mattress industry: a business engineered around confusion, artificial urgency, and a retail footprint that makes no sense until you realize the store was never really the point.