Blogger and amateur bedding-sales analyst Christopher Andrews has updated a few of his maps of mattress chain stores in the Houston area (including the one shown above) to include Mattress One (or Mattress1 One, or Mattress 1 One, as the company variously refers to itself). Altogether, that Florida-and-Texas chain, plus Mattress Firm and Mattress Pro (owned by Mattress Firm), operate 166 separate retail locations in the region.
- Mattress Manifest Destiny Part 2: Mattress Firm, Mattress Pro and Mattress 1 One [Not of It]
- Previously on Swamplot:Â How and Where Mattress Firm Is Conquering Houston, One Sleepy Strip Center Storefront at a Time
Map: Christopher Andrews
Bed Spread
How?
Why?
Ha! There are so many of these up and down Westheimer/Richmond, you don’t even need to draw the streets on the map!
a lot of these stores are probably cia/homeland security fronts where they’re selling mattresses with implanted microchips in the seams as part of the police/surveilance state…to identify sleeper cells within the resistance. don’t laugh.
Enough with the mattress store posts. Can we move on to something more interesting?
What about Matress Giant? (oooh aaaahh)
You’ll sleep like a baby! It reminds me of when there were waterbed stores everywhere. I think there were several next to each other in a few block span along 59 near Greenway Plaza alone. Where were they all going??? Maybe they were popular in the first apartments of 20-somethings and newly divorced folks, but did Houston need that level of waterbed store saturation? The current waterbed business being what it is, I guess not.
We have a clear mattress desert on the eastside. Something must be done.
Mattress Firm bought out Mattress Giant in 2012.
It’s a shame the map doesn’t include additional dots showing all the small chains and mom-and-pop mattress stores in Houston’s Greater East End. There must be a dozen or so on Telephone Rd. alone between Kipp Academy and Hobby Airport.
Fernando,
Its a running joke. We won’t put this one to bed.
Fernando, we can certainly put this mattress matter to bed. (ba dum, tssshhh).
This same map was posted like 10 days to 2 weeks ago please move on to something else
Don’t forget Mattress Overstock! There’s one of those on the Shepherd/Richmond corner, just down the street from the two Mattress1One stores.
I see a bunch of mattress deserts. How will people survive?
There is a whopping shortage of Mattresses on my side the NE…people are having to literally sleep 4-5 to a bed. 😂😂😂
CCarlson/Chris Andrews — I know. I’ve been reading Swamplot for years. It’s just beyond old now.
Mattress meme…make it stop…
Fascinating how the mattress stores overlap the Anglo distribution in Houston: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Race_and_ethnicity_2010-_Houston.png.
I agree with Semper Fudge, there are too many Mattress Deserts east of 59. We need to start a hashtag #MATTRESSESMATTER, and see if Michelle Obama will pose with a sign that reads “LET US SLEEP… more”.
I remember when there were futon stores everywhere. Anyone else remember futons? I slept on those in the 80s to show solidarity with the downtrodden in all those places that lacked decent sleep technology. I was a fool.
I mean, how often do people buy mattresses? I’m convinced these are money-laundering operations.
Shady has a point about the mattress deserts. Would the city be justified in using a 380 agreement to help subsidize the construction of a Mattress Firm in Trinity Gardens?
I would argue it’s not just justified, it’s imperative. Mattress Justice NOW.