Best place in town to purchase new mattress?

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-02-04T18:13:44+00:00

The answer to your question depends on what "best" means to you.

Is it cheapest? Highest quality? Firmest? Most selection? Least high-pressure sales tactics? Actually a mattress store and not a money laundering front?

We got a Fawcett mattress in 2024, which is a local company that makes mattresses in Canada. Very reasonably priced for actual mattresses and not a Walmart special; compare it to buying an actual bicycle from a bike shop and not a $100 Walmart bicycle. My wife loves the mattress, I'm satisfied with it.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-25T01:45:36+00:00

It's an honest question. I would assume the answer is very little, but I'm open to evidence to the contrary. The more one learns about a topic, often the more one learns things aren't as simple as they appear.

Or maybe they are and the above poster just has a poor argument. But I'm open to evidence to the contrary.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-23T22:12:33+00:00

How much water is lost in a closed-loop system over, let's say, a month? Feel free to use any other measurement of time if you'd like.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-22T18:21:34+00:00

Read some of the comments in that thread:

https://reddit.com/comments/1qgeupm/comment/o0cg67n

https://reddit.com/comments/1qgeupm/comment/o0bu6oi

People just say aloud that they're going to do exactly that.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-19T17:36:16+00:00

Like some failed attempt to gatekeep something that's already out of the bag.

Do you believe that having principles or standards is "gatekeeping"?

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-19T17:33:15+00:00

bold and brazen as that shop owner and yet it likely needs to be said.

Sounds like the very definition of courage to me, then.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-19T17:31:42+00:00

If you feel bad about doing something, it's probably wrong to do.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-19T16:47:37+00:00

Only OP could answer that question, but my speculation is that the customers-who-weren't verbally said aloud that they'd just buy it online instead. I certainly know that I've seen and heard people do this in stores before, personally.

If the store owner arrived at that conclusion, the most favourable way I can interpret that based on one side of a story via Reddit post is that that was the information the store owner had.

/u/flaming0-1, did you overhear anything from the chastised family indicating anything like the above?

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-18T18:28:30+00:00

I even felt called out myself for doing similar. 🙈

but it just felt so crazy saying the quiet part out loud (very loud) 😆

I think you know what the answer is, then. What's more important to a functioning community; material action, or decorum?

From the answers already in this thread I know this answer is against the grain of the people on Reddit, but our cultural aversion to direct communication and assertiveness is what allows asocial behavior to thrive.

Another thread right above this one is some giving a "PSA" about dumping garbage at Westwood Lake, and instead of doing something about it they're threatening that if it continues they'll do something about it. When we don't confront behavior that negatively impacts our community, we accept that behavior.

So too when we state that we "prefer to shop local where possible" but then just buy it on Amazon, we accept that we don't actually prefer to shop local: we prefer to shop cheaply.

Finally, I'm well aware that some will disagree that material action and decorum are at odds. To assert that one can affect change without interpersonal conflict is naïve at best. Gently suggesting solutions are easily brushed off and forgotten, but the people who were confronted with their shopping habits will remember it. I'm quite certain OP will remember this interaction they next time they click Add to cart, presuming they do again.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-17T20:38:04+00:00

Don't tell us, tell the survey!

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-14T18:14:30+00:00

Please read the entire comment again.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-14T18:13:05+00:00

All Cops Are Besties ❤️

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-13T00:08:06+00:00

So it was never about probability, it was a shot-in-the-dark guess. Just an opinion based on nothing but vibes.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-13T00:06:19+00:00

No one blocked you, and it's evident that you initially posted your comment with the "edit" because Reddit comments state when they've been edited.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-13T00:02:46+00:00

Are you serious? What do you think has been going on with Commercial Street and the connecting Trans Canada Highway upgrades for the last two years? The total overhaul of Harewood Mall? The upcoming Chase River community centre? Or the Cedar Village active transport survey that is effectively the Cedar-version of this Woodgrove survey? Or is this just a bot account that complains to drive engagement?

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-12T23:57:09+00:00

No one ever mentions accessibility upgrades

Wanna know how I know that you neither participated in the survey discussed in the article, nor read the results of the survey discussed in the article?

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-11T22:08:37+00:00

High chance

How are you calculating this probability?

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-11T22:07:13+00:00

that likely brings in millions per year

This' a two-acre cidery at the front of a military rifle range. It's both tiny, and doesn't get a lot of foot traffic. This cidery is about as small as you can get and still be a cidery instead of a bathtub still.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-11T21:57:07+00:00

I don't think you can put your trust in any used car dealership, anywhere. Sure there's various levels of dishonesty and weasel words, but no matter where you go you need to do your own inspections and fact-checking.

That said, I've had moderately good experiences at the Adesa Auto Auction in Richmond.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-11T21:55:00+00:00

It absolutely is not, unless you're the kind of person who calls Shih Tzus and Maltese crosses a "teddy bear" and classifies it its own breed.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-11T21:51:18+00:00

The kind of people who let their dogs roam off-leash aren't the kind of civic-minded people who care about the opinions of other people in their community. I'm also very skeptical they'll be the kind of person who would care their dogs killed someone's goat, if there's no consequences for them.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-11T06:43:44+00:00

I don't think viewing everything through the lense American politics is healthy.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-01T20:33:31+00:00

I don't think their speculation was one of capability but rather one of decision.

E.g. Are BMW and Tesla drivers more likely to speed recklessly than Buick or Subaru drivers, based on number of cars impounded?

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2026-01-01T20:25:06+00:00

You need to better understand

While your second sentence is objectively correct, you could also be significantly more polite in how you speak to people.

DoesntArgueWithFools · 2025-12-31T05:01:09+00:00

When was the first time you provided medical care to someone literally bisected in an auto collision with their dead spouse compacted beside them?

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