I want to know why he wasn't able to obtain a mattress at the first store. From what I understand he never even tried the mattress out at the second store where he bought it so why didn't he get one at the first store? Was it a hardware store he went into? :-)
He went to R.C. Willey first. R.C. Willey won't let you take things off the showroom floor. They deliver. He left R.C. Willey because they wouldn't let him take a mattress with him.
I've been through this with R.C. Willey before, when I needed a sofa in a hurry. No, I didn't kill anyone on the old sofa. I was having company that night, and my old sofa was very sad looking.
"I want to know why he wasn't able to obtain a mattress at the first store. From what I understand he never even tried the mattress out at the second store where he bought it so why didn't he get one at the first store?"
The first store was just a showroom that delivered the product from a warehouse somewhere else later on. When he found out he wouldn't be able to take a mattress away with him right then, he left.
From what I've read, he didn't "try out" the mattress he wound up buying and I've heard of no other mattress (at that store or at the one before it) that he did test drive.
The first store he entered on Monday morning, probably around 9:15 or 9:30 was Willey (Willey's?) Furniture Store, 23011 W. 300 West, Salt Lake City. He left because he was told he couldn't take it with him right away. Then he went to another place nearby (one article said it was "across the street") which was Bradley's Sleep Etc, 2255 S. 300 West, SLC. Neither store sold hardware, according to what I've read.