Bob’s Discount Furniture set to open in Davenport

New retailer fills former Bed, Bath & Beyond 

Bob’s Discount Furniture will open soon at 4022 E. 53rd St., Davenport. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

Bob’s Discount Furniture will soon open a new showroom in Davenport marking its second Iowa location.

“We’ve been looking for the right location for years. … We love the location,” Todd Peter, regional manager for Bob’s Discount Furniture, said in an interview with the Quad Cities Regional Business Journal on Wednesday, Jan. 15.

The new store is located at 4022 E. 53rd St. That’s the former home of Bed, Bath & Beyond, and in the retail complex with Hy-Vee store, 4064 E. 53rd St.

The furniture store is scheduled to have a soft opening on Monday, Feb. 3, followed by a grand opening Friday, Feb. 14, with a ribbon-cutting set for 9:30 a.m.

Mr. Peter added that “construction is finished. The store has been handed over to the merchandising team. … They are setting up the store.” In addition to furniture being set up, employee training began at the Davenport site on Monday, Jan. 13.

The Davenport store will have 20 to 30 employees. While Bob’s has enough employees for the store opening ”we’re always looking for good people,” he said. (Go here to learn more about jobs at Bob’s.)

According to information from the company, consumers need their furniture to work harder for them as hybrid work schedules have changed the way we eat, sleep and work at home.

Here are some of the store’s features:

  • The store will include about 31,000 square feet of space.
  • The furniture will include: Technology Integration – furniture that incorporates technology, such as reclining sofas with LED lights, built-in charging stations, power reclining capabilities; furniture designed to accommodate remote work; multi-purpose furniture;  and modular pieces that can be configured in multiple ways to suit rooms of all sizes and uses.
  • Hours: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays; and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays.
  • Bob’s also has a location in West Des Moines.
  • The Feb. 14 grand opening will include a ribbon-cutting, $5,000 in charity check presentations and feature an on-the-house café with free snacks for all inside the store.

“While we are national, we have local values” and enjoying helping the local community, said Mr. Peter.

He added that the main feature of the store is: “Anybody can come in and buy great value furniture.”

The new Davenport store site is one of 20 new Bob’s stores set to open this year including stores in Winchester, Virginia; Reno, Nevada; and Burnsville, Minnesota.

Bob’s Discount Furniture is the ninth largest U.S. furniture chain, and is headquartered in Manchester, Conneticutt. It has 189 stores across 24 states and more than $2 billion annual sales.

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