carlar6

Great post BTW.
Moving to Atlanta very soon, can anybody recommend John Lewis type stores ??
Thanks in advance xx

Pulaski

You'd be hard pushed to find anyone who will "recommmend" any US department store.

My wife buys some clothes for our daughter from Kohls. Other than looking in desperation for Christmas gifts a couple of years ago, I can't remember the last time I shopped in a department store.

Lanyu

I haven't seen anything similar to John Lewis not even close! Im in Louisiana though the closest maybe Dillards. But doesn't have the selection.

MidAtlantic

There are Kohls, Macey's, Sears but none of them are like John Lewis.
Traditional department stores are struggling financially.

There is an IKEA in Atlanta for furniture. For beds I would go to a specific bed retailer.

My advice would be to not try to find the English version of things here. It is a different country with a different culture and you just have to adjust to doing things in a different way. It makes it difficult initially, but once you adapt to how things are it's fine!

mrken30

We looked at aireloome and stearns and foster. Ended up buying the Stearns , got it "1/2 price" for around $4000 in 2008. The aireloomes were between 6 and 9k. Best bed ever slept on , only problem is that it has a 19 inch mattress that makes it more difficult to find sheets.

The costco bed for $350 works great for guests.

mrken30

Macy's seems to sell some reasonable stuff. I was impressed with aire loome beds.

Still , not quite a John Lewis

hungryhorace

Having a John Lewis in the US would involve workers being treated fairly, and included as Partners in the firm. That's the complete contrast to how American big business treats its employees.

mrken30

You mean like Winco and other companies that have profit sharing schemes? UK companies are not much better, it's just legislation that's different. Lookup sports direct.

hungryhorace

It's not about profit sharing. John Lewis is run as a Partnership. Which major (or even SME) American company runs itself in similar fashion?

mrken30

Winco is an employee owned company, thought I'm not 100% sure what that means in the US.

petitefrancaise

Room and Board, West Elm, Restoration Hardware, Crate and Barrel. All upmarket good quality furniture. Overstock.com is my interior designer friend's favourite website for decorative bits and bobs.

mrken30

I have bought some furniture in Walmart.com that was more substantial than I was expecting, better than Ikea. It weighs a lot though. Also might be worth checking out craigslist

Nutmegger

Because of the unbalanced dog to human ratio around here, we don't put a lot of money into our rugs and try to change them often. I recently bought new ones from Overstock for a song and was very pleasantly surprised by the quality. They were far better for the price than ones I had bought online previously at rugsdirect and rugsusa. In fact, I replaced one I had bought locally a number of years ago with the exact same rug, at about one third the price.

carlar6

Thank all for your suggestions, best I start shopping.

Will defo try Walmart and Overstock.

If you think of anywhere else, please keep me informed x

carlar6

would any of these be on par with John Lewis' quality and price?