[Busy Bee]

I'm just speaking from personal experience, but of all the mom-n-pop independent retail stores of all kinds out there, THE most likely to look and feel "sad" to me have almost always been furniture stores. Perhaps it's just the nature of the product they are selling (high up-front cost, large physical size, hard to liquidate) that lends itself to a feeling of stale inventory. I cannot tell you how many times I've been in an old established middle-of-the-road family owned furniture store and they have a loft or lower level that is still trying to clearance out furnishings they likely ordered when Bill Clinton was still president.