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Experience the di erence

La-Z-Boy Galleries in Ocala offers appealing array of furniture choices, and stellar customer service.

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a-Z-Boy no longer looks like your granddad’s overstu ed recliner. Today the popular La-Z-

Boy brand has expanded to include attractive, contemporarydesigned reclining sofas, chairs, loveseats, sleepers, and sectionals in a variety of fabrics and color choices. You owe it to yourself to see and feel the di erence! “When people think La-Z-Boy, they think reclining rockers and chairs that their families have had forever. When in reality we have about 500 items. Pretty much everything that La-Z-Boy carries, we have on our oor,” says Christopher White, sales manager, at La-Z-Boy Galleries at 2530 SW 19th Avenue Road in Ocala.

Among the popular pieces are the Duo, a two-seat sofa, which many women say they love that it looks like a sofa than a recliner, yet it has a footrest that lifts for comfort. Another attractive piece is the Rowan Rocking Recliner, which has a sleek look with ared arms to maximize the seating area. When it’s not used in a reclining position, it’s a relaxing rocker with smooth, graceful motion.

La-Z-Boy also receives kudos from customers for providing reclining chairs and rockers that o er personalized comfort and support based on one’s height, ranging from petite, small, tall, and extra tall.

Ever since La-Z-Boy Galleries opened in 2002 in Ocala—the exclusive store for the area—it’s popular with residents in Lake and Sumter County, and as far as Daytona and Lake City.

Customers are drawn by the comfort, top quality, craftsmanship of the La-ZBoy brand of furnishings, and they praise the personalized service the Ocala store sta provides.

“The biggest compliment we get on a day-to-day basis is about our service. When you call us, you get a real person you don’t have to talk to a machine, and we don’t give you a run around as far as service or helping people out,” says Christopher, the third-generation of the White family in the furniture business.

Christopher’s father, Lee White, is store manager of the La-Z-Boy Galleries in Ocala, and Christopher’s grandfather, Arthur White, founded White’s Furniture in Summer eld in 1957, which he still runs.

“I wanted to carry on the family legacy,” says Christopher, who started working in the furniture warehouse in

“THE BIGGEST COMPLIMENT WE GET ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS IS ABOUT OUR SERVICE. WHEN YOU CALL US, YOU GET A REAL PERSON YOU DON’T HAVE TO TALK TO A MACHINE, AND WE DON’T GIVE YOU A RUN AROUND AS FAR AS SERVICE OR HELPING PEOPLE OUT.”

—CHRISTOPHER WHITE

2004 while in high school. After college, he began doing deliveries and then moved inside the store to work in sales before becoming sales manager.

“I’ve worked my way up the company, and it feels good to hear all the customer service stories through the years,” he says. “Even here at the LaZ-Boy Galleries, we have hundreds of customers who have purchased from us in the early 2000s, and they are repeat customers with us as well.”

Lee White has devoted over 40 years in the family’s furniture business, starting in 1977, and he values what he has learned from his father, Arthur White, about life, business, and treating customers as you want to be treated. “My dad is a sweetheart,” he says.

“When I was younger, I thought I knew more than my dad,” Lee says with a chuckle. “I would try to get him to do things,’ and he’d say, ‘no you can’t do that,’ and now I’m older, I’m actually my dad and my son, Christopher, is me. Christopher thinks we ought to do things this way, and I’m saying, ‘No, that’s not the way Papa did it.’ So, it’s funny how it just kind of rolls.”

The Whites are proud to have provided the La-Z-Boy to customers for decades.

Lee recently found a receipt for $125 for his father’s rst La-Z-Boy order in 1975, which he had framed to be placed on the wall of his dad’s Summer eld store. “My dad is going into his 63rd year, and I’ve been doing it over 40, and Christopher will probably be doing it over 40 or 50 years,” says Lee, proud of his family’s legacy in providing top quality furniture.

To see the latest in La-Z-Boy furnishings, the Whites invite residents to visit La-Z-Boy Galleries at 2530 SW 19th Avenue Road in Ocala from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

352.861.3009 / la-z-boy.com/ocala / 2530 SW 19th Ave Rd., Ocala