Any day now, a local firm, World of Furniture, will stop delivering sofas and lend its fleet of vans to hamper distribution (hampers are an addition to standard, nutritional, non-Christmassy foodboxes).
Burrow, a startup bringing a Casper-style approach to manufacturing and delivering sofas, is announcing that it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding.
The company has sold more than 50 sofas through its promotion so far, and delivered 10 used sofas, one sofa bed and one sectional to a Habitat for Humanity retail store in Stratford, Conn.
Our landlord's brother was meant to be delivering a sofa at two o'clock on the day of the attacks.
Now an amiable, still-typing grandmother in her late 60s, Ms. Kelly sits on a nondescript sofa and delivers nostalgic observations on a time when her life was a great deal more exciting.
The ads for sofas delivered in time for them to get covered in mince pie crumbs.
When Mick took his teenage son Johnny in his arms last week and delivered the sweetest, sofa-side, "it's OK son, Daddy still loves you, there's nothing bad about being gay" speech, encouraging him to come out through both of their stifled tears, the hairs on the back of my neck stood upright.
And so, on the clear and sunny Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, when summer unofficially began on beaches across the country, there was David Hughes, getting lost as he tried to deliver a sleeper sofa to 24 Primrose Lane, currently at the edge of construction in Big Bold Dream No. 3. "This is weird," Mr. Hughes said.
With a few swipes and touches on a smart phone, you can have a brand new dress or sofa delivered to your home -- at a fraction of the price!
Burrow's sofas are delivered in a compact box, and assembly is only supposed to take 10 minutes, no tools required.
