Thomasville is not what it used to be. Many manufacturers go through this during their lifetime. I come from a furniture family. Early in our marriage, I purchased a Tville maple split pedestal DR table, Windsor chairs and a china cabinet. It's in my parents lower level now. Could not be made better, but that was 26 years ago. Excellent customer service from store purchased (no longer in business). I helped my sister pick out a couple of Tvill pieces a few years ago for her new house. Tville store opened in our area, so purchased there. Customer service was okay. No problem with furniture. DD2 recently bought a new home and we went to Tville looking for new sofa/chair. Left empty handed. I wasn't impressed w/quality or customer service. Not saying everything was/is bad, just that what was in her price range was not what she was looking for in either looks or quality. imo, it's not the high quality furniture it used to be, and customer service is not either. Tville stores are owned by individuals, not the company, and you no longer have the backing of the manufacturer. When we my family had stores (up until 1980), you had the backing of both, imo. The manufacturers stood behind their products and store owners. I purchased a Henredon sofa from a local store not 2 years ago. One of our cats bled on the sofa recently (long story, he's okay. Sofa was not.) I called the store that afternoon. Closed. So I went down next morning to order enough fabric to cover 3 sofa cushion bottoms. After all, the sofa was not inexpensive and is well made so I intend to keep for 20+ years. (Last LR sofa was by Sherrill and I had it 20 years. Would have recovered, but the new house swallowed it.) I also want to be able to flip the cushions. The Henredon rep was in the store and told me I needed to order fabric within the next few days, that my fabric had been discontinued and they were selling all discontinued fabrics in 2 weeks. Once gone, it's gone. Sales lady called Henredon, who had 15 yards. I only needed 4yds. I placed order and she faxed to Henredon. They said I should have it in a week. That was Dec 10th. The 23rd, I am in the area so I stop by. She calls. Should be cut after the 25th and go out before the 1st. Jan, still no fabric. She calls again. They say we are cutting this week. Still not fabric, so I go by again. They take my address and said they will cut that afternoon and ship directly to me. Sales lady calls the next morning. But get this, Henredon gal tells sales lady "do you want to hear the truth about what happened?" Well, duh! They never pulled the fabric when the order was place on Dec 10th. They didn't even enter into their computer system until the 17th and the fabric had been pulled. Gone. Factory where fabric was made closed early 2009. So all that time they had been giving her the run around, simply because they did not want to say they had mucked it up! I called Henredon directly. Was told it was not their problem, that I had to take it up with local store. Even though it was their screw up! Local store manager said I could order any 4 yds of fabric and get it at cost. Well, that's not going to match my sofa so why would I do that?! I don't need any fabric for elsewhere. If I ordered enough fabric to do entire sofa, 18yds (the original fabric was $60yd), and had it recovered locally, it would cost me as much or more than a new sofa. So that doesn't make sense either. She did not offer to give me cost on 18yds. They did not offer me a new sofa at cost. So the local store lost a long time customer (over 20 years), Henredon lost a customer too and I have a sofa with cushions I can never flip over.

A friend told me the other day that they got the innards of a set of taps a while ago, like that, as well. At the local store, I think. Don't recall the name of the manufacturer ... if I heard it. ole joyful

Shirley....Bennigan's went Chapter 7 bankruptcy. They just don't exist anymore. Some restaurants were owned by the company - they shut down. The others were franchises, not owned by the company, and the owners of those individual restaurants will stay open if they choose, and will probably have new names soon. So...the restaurant that didn't accept the GC was no longer a Bennigan's - don't get mad at them, the owners probably have enough problems right now, just trying to stay open.

@dsg2015 -- I had the exact same choice 1-1/2 years ago. I did switch in the end and it has been an excellent decision for me. Our girls always touted Apple to us. I stubbornly stuck to PC and Android. Then we had to get DH an iMac for the accessible features -- he has low vision and it was recommended by the Lighthouse. So I had to learn to use it in order to adjust it for him. It's been excellent. So when my last PC started wearing down, I went to Apple. I like a desktop as I do a lot of photo editing. I got an iMac with a fusion drive which means it boots up super quickly and is very fast. It is, hands down, the best desktop ever. I did need to reorganize things and I do have my quibbles. But overall there is no comparison. Plus I don't need to keep spending money updating software and adding internet protection -- those are included! I did have an iPad in advance of the desktop and loved it. Didn't put much focus on the ability of those to synch up but it's come in very handy. So when I went to get a new phone at the end of '14 I took a hard look at the Iphone 6+ vs the Samsung. Everyone I spoke to with the 6+ loved it. I went for it. Like the desktop, it is by far the best phone I've every had. Easiest to use, 0 audio issues, almost no dropped calls. If I take photos with the phone they transfer over to the desktop library. So now I'm a convert. I still have a PC laptop that's been lightly used. It should have many good years as it's not used all that much. But when it goes, I'll get a Mac. Sure, Apple support varies from store to store. But it's worlds better than the nightmare overseas non-English, nonsense support I experienced in the past.