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2. Simmons Bedding Company - Wikipedia

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   The pocketed coil is the basis for the Simmons Beautyrest mattress brand, which was introduced in 1925. [6] Although the new manufacturing technology greatly reduced its cost, at the time of its introduction a Beautyrest mattress sold for $39.50, three to four times more than the typical price for a standard wire mattress. [7]

3. Consumer Reports - Wikipedia

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   Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy.

4. Criticism of Amazon - Wikipedia

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   As customer reviews have become integral to Amazon marketing, reviews have been challenged on accuracy and ethical grounds. [358] In 2004, The New York Times [359] reported that a glitch in the Amazon Canada website revealed that a number of book reviews had been written by authors of their own books or of competing books. Amazon changed its ...

5. A complete guide to the very best Labor Day sales on ... - AOL

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   The Best Labor Day Sales this year includes great deals such as a $65 mattress, a $20 set of sheets and 20% off Amazon bestselling pillows. Browse all of the deals available this Labor Day.

6. Veblen good - Wikipedia

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   Veblen goods such as luxury cars are considered desirable consumer products for conspicuous consumption because of, rather than despite, their high prices.. A Veblen good is a type of luxury good, named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve.

7. Luxury goods - Wikipedia

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   The word "luxury" derives from the Latin verb luxor meaning to overextend or strain. From this, the noun luxuria and verb luxurio developed, "indicating immoderate growth, swelling, ... in persons and animals, willful or unruly behavior, disregard for moral restraints, and licensciousness", and the term has had negative connotations for most of its long history. [2]