After five months of back pain induced by a shoddy home-office setup, the interior designer was willing to go even where her map couldn’t direct her for a roughly 80% discount on her dream office chair: an $1,100 Herman Miller Mirra 2. Executive Liquidation has over 25,000 office chairs in its 30,000-square-foot warehouse. Conklin Office Furniture, based in Holyoke, Mass., has been outfitting a dozen or so home offices a week while previously it focused mostly on businesses, said Conklin principal Tyler Arnold. The company has more than 25,000 office chairs and 1,000 desks in its 30,000-square-foot warehouse, plus 20 53-foot trailers loaded with office furniture. Leo Choi tries out an office chair in the warehouse.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 07, 2020 15:45 UTC