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Distressing time for furniture retailers

Bonnie Cooper has seen plenty ofslumpssince she began selling furniture in 1968, but nothing like the scene outside the window of the Ontario sofa store where she now works. Just across the parking lot lies an abandoned Levitz Furniture showroom and warehouse. A mattress store and two smaller furniture shops in the same outdoor shopping center also shut down recently. It’s scary out there,” said Cooper, a saleswoman at Salmo’s Custom Sofa. “I think this is the tip of the iceberg — there’s more to come.” For the full story visit http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-furniture14-2008may14,0,6770934.story

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