Bob's Discount Furniture, Inc.

And it was a furniture store.

It was before Bob's ever existed, Bob's Discount Furniture.

And so my father brought me to him, and it was a big line.

And I get up to meet him, and he signs the thing, and he just looks at me.

The retailer is seeing more higher-income customers shop at discount furniture stores.

Bob's Discount Furniture reported the same trend on its August sixth earnings call and identified the income levels, households earning more than one hundred thousand dollars and even one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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The company filed its fiscal twenty twenty-six Form ten-K.

One furniture retailer said a growing number of higher-income customers were also shopping at discount furniture stores.

That is one retailer's observation, not a national census data point, but it matches what a large everyday low price chain told investors several weeks earlier.

Bob's Discount Furniture reported its second quarter fiscal twenty twenty-six results for the quarter that ended June twenty-eighth.

Revenue increased because of new stores and comparable store sales growth.

Most of the time, it's just pure hype.

You guys know Bob's Furniture? So let me tell you what they did that was so slick recently.

So Private Equity bought Bob's Furniture.

It's been all kinds of things over the last 30 years, right? And they've been looking for a way to get rid of Bob's Furniture, to go public.

So they figured the market had a good year, three good years, three great years in a row.

Let's go public.

So the week they were going to go public, they were running Bob Furniture ads on CNBC.

Why? They weren't trying to sell no furniture on CNBC.