New Bridge Street Bedding Centre Review
On Thursday I visited the world famous New Bridge Street Bedding Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne. I was greeted by a lady who advised me that this store was the biggest bed shop in the UK, and indicated I may need a compass and help from David Livingstone….
She wasn’t wrong. I have never seen so many beds, on so many levels and and crammed in to so many nooks and crannies. And yet every product was in good condition, nicely ticketed and well lit. Lots of points of sale to help advise you what you were looking at and plenty privacy to lie on whatever, or whoever, took your fancy.
Indeed I was impressed. Good quality double divan beds at £199 to top of the range Sealy beds at £999. Well priced and from the huge mounds of mattresses stacked in an area designated “Mr Mattress”, plenty stock to take away.
Of course it was hard to understand what the Newcastle Geordies were saying to you. Sunderland had just beaten Hull City four goals to one the week before so they weren’t their usual ebullient selves perhaps. I was left very much to my own devices so I just wrote down all the prices and all the products.
I also popped in to visit their next door neighbour the Mattress Shop and met the owner Russell Clark. Of course this wasn’t my first visit around the bed shops in the north east of England and I mentioned to him that I felt New Bridge Bedding and indeed himself had upped their game since I last visited 18 months ago.
He didn’t agree – they have always been sharp he said – but the new carpets and recently decorated walls indicated to me that at least they were staying sharp. Russell said that business was good this year, which depressed me (because we have found selling beds as hard now as it has ever been). But there are exceptions and Newcastle could be one of them. We know our Ayrshire boys haven’t realised there is a recession on so maybe the Geordie boys are the same.
The verdict then is if you are thinking of opening a bed shop in Newcastle you better be good at selling beds. Perhaps Dreams could go in there and soften the market up a bit first. Maybe we should go to Carlisle instead…. of course not. Trust me we can compete, and indeed proud to compete, with undoubtedly the best bed shop in Newcastle, The New Bridge Bedding Centre.
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