Sealy Beds in Cumbria: Don’t Mention Silentnight!
Sealy Beds kindly invited Archers to visit their UK factory in Aspatria and followed by a sleepover in the Ladores Falls Hotel, Keswick.
Eight hardy souls left our snow bound Great Western Rd store at 10am, all provisioned up and expecting a long and slow 118 mile trip to Sealy. The M74 had been closed the day before and like a Top Gear episode, there was Wee Donna in her Mini Cooper versus Big Archie in his Nissan Almera – who would make it down first?
Enough to say the boys in the Almera ate all Sealy’s lunchtime samosas before Donna and the girls even got to Carlisle: 1600cc of Nissan raw power. Was going to give it to Billy for Xmas but he just couldn’t handle her.
So what was the verdict on the Sealy factory? Does it blow away the budget Batley Boys factories? Err, no!
Sealy, as we all know, make great beds, expensively. And all my prejudices were amply reinforced. Quality control experts everywhere, loads of rejected beds and the give away to inefficient working practices – loads of references to time and motion men. Give a guy a stopwatch to time another guy doing a job. What do you get; an accurate representation of how fast a man can work? Err no!
Thing is I know sod all about how to run a factory. The people were committed and dedicated and though I have this suspicion that costs could be cut I came away knowing that Sealy care. You buy a Sealy bed you are going to get a great bed: our Sealy Millionaire king size mattress exemplifies the fact. Is that Sealy king size mattress not superb?
The highlight of our trip I have to say was the hospitality. Archers have been visiting the factory for years and if only I had known how well we were being looked after I’d have been accompanying every visit. An overnight stay in a beautifully appointed hotel with wonderfully friendly staff and a truly epic Lakeside setting.
It was hard to take it all in. So to make the most of it we stayed up all night and partied. Well OK, we didn’t exactly party but the nearest nightclub was a bit of a taxi ride away. A great trip. I’d recommend a Sealy factory visit to everyone. Worth opening a bed shop for.
Related posts:
- Silentnight and Sealy Spring Show
- Training visit to Kaymed Beds in Dublin
- Sealy Memory Support Double Divan Bed Offer
- Sealy Memory Support Mattress Transmogrifies
- Reid Furniture coming out of Silentnight Beds
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