The Room Store
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The Room Store is a chain of furniture
retail stores in the eastern and southern United States with 60 locations in eight states. The company specializes in retailing all the pieces of furniture for an entire room rather than individual pieces of furniture. For example, a table
may be sold with chairs and other dining room
accessories in a package rather than a table alone. Room store ranks as one of the top 25 furniture retailers in the United States.
The Room Store has produced commercials
featuring Kristen Swanson.
by Gary Levitz, grandson of the founder of Levitz Furniture
. The chain started with 4 stores in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. In 1999, Levitz was killed in a plane crash.
In 2005, The Room Store received $35 million to emerge from bankruptcy protection.
Furniture
Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...
retail stores in the eastern and southern United States with 60 locations in eight states. The company specializes in retailing all the pieces of furniture for an entire room rather than individual pieces of furniture. For example, a table
Table (furniture)
A table is a form of furniture with a flat and satisfactory horizontal upper surface used to support objects of interest, for storage, show, and/or manipulation...
may be sold with chairs and other dining room
Dining room
A dining room is a room for consuming food. In modern times it is usually adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving, although in medieval times it was often on an entirely different floor level...
accessories in a package rather than a table alone. Room store ranks as one of the top 25 furniture retailers in the United States.
The Room Store has produced commercials
Television advertisement
A television advertisement or television commercial, often just commercial, advert, ad, or ad-film – is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization that conveys a message, typically one intended to market a product...
featuring Kristen Swanson.
History
Room store was founded in 1992 in TexasTexas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
by Gary Levitz, grandson of the founder of Levitz Furniture
Levitz Furniture
Levitz Furniture was a nationwide chain of American furniture stores that helped create the "furniture warehouse" genre of retail furniture sales...
. The chain started with 4 stores in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. In 1999, Levitz was killed in a plane crash.
In 2005, The Room Store received $35 million to emerge from bankruptcy protection.