Art Van Furniture closing all stores, liquidation sales start Friday

WXYZ ^ | 3/5/2020 | WXYZ

[Larry Lucido]

I wonder if the sale can be delayed. That would be, in legal terms, an Art Van Delay.

[Larry Lucido]

“Art Van Elslander, opened his first furniture store in metro Detroit in 1959, growing it to the number one furniture and mattress retailer in the Midwest.”

[SaveFerris]

He can now be the Honorable Judge Arthur Vandelay!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Levin Furniture division in Pittsburgh is staying in business because a member of the Levin family is buying that piece back from Art Van.

[Bob434]

boo hissss- not too puny atall

[Buckeye McFrog]

When I lived in Michigan I think an ad for Art Van ran on TV or Radio every five minutes. They were as ubiquitous as Bloomberg’s ads.

[VanDeKoik]

That store has been “going out of business” since I was a kid.

Their commercials were obnoxious.

[Larry Lucido]

They should have hired The Wiz.

[DouglasKC]

Lol...yeah the joke was to act surprised when art van was Having a sale.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Ads for the Fretter Superstore were almost as bad.

[Dilbert San Diego]

So what’s the deal? Competition from Costco or Walmart?

Did they sell good quality furniture, but couldn’t compete on price with today’s cheap particle board furniture?

[pas]

Should have gotten into latex.

[farming pharmer]

Arthur Van Elslander and family were/are huge contributors to St. John Hospital and the Van Elslander Cancer Center on Mack & Moross.

[bella1]

The worst was Joshua Door (”you’ve got an uncle in the furniture business, Joshua Door, Joshua Door).

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I wonder if the sale can be delayed. That would be, in legal terms, an Art Van Delay.

[Yo-Yo]

The few times I've shopped at my local Art Van, I found their furniture to be of good quality but very high priced. I'm not surprised that they're going out of business.

They were just down the street from Highland Appliance, Fretter Appliance, and ABC WhoreWarehouse.

ABC is the last one standing.

But Highland had the best commercials.

[Skywise]

Highland... Fretter...

Those are names I’ve not heard in a long time... a long time

[shelterguy]

“””””””I wonder if the sale can be delayed. That would be, in legal terms, an Art Van Delay. “”””””””

Van Delay only does latex.

[steve8714]

Online mattresses probably hurt that part of the business.

[bigbob]

For many furniture stores, the going out of business forever sale has become an annual event.