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VIRGINIA WAYSIDE FURNITURE THE SECRET TO A SUCCESSFUL FAMILY BUSINESS By Josh Young
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mitment to their clients ever since their father Bill opened the store. “He was all about the customers, and he helped to lay a good foundation for Maury and myself,” Robin says. “And we still do things the old-school way; and there are a lot of the things we can do for our customers because we’re not a chain.” Maury will go as far as making house visits and inspections if cus-
orking with family members can be a difficult task to say the least. Any given project you undertake with a brother or sister has the potential of being infused with years of bickering, fighting and deep-seated disagreements. Yet, as of April this year, siblings Maury and Robin Childress will be celebrating 54 years of a successful family-run business at Virginia Wayside Furniture. Not only have they inherited their father’s business, but they’ve grown it into a thriving furniture store — one that covers all of your home and style needs. This full-service furniture store covers all of the bases for their loyal customers, and according to Robin, they’ve held a high level of com-
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tomers are having any issues with their products. Outside of the intimate type of customer service that can only be found in a family-owned business, the Childresses go to great length to ensure that everything in their showroom is of the utmost quality. “We don’t buy anything that we wouldn’t put in our own homes.” When Robin thinks back on what has kept this 50,000-square-foot furniture store thriving and expanding all of these years, it comes back to the family values that they were founded on. “We’re a local business; people know who we are,” Robin says. “I think that people enjoy doing business with people that they know.” They’ve taken this so seriously, they have even foregone using a voicemail system in their store. If you call Virginia Wayside Furniture right now, you will speak to a person who will either help you on the spot or take your information down the old-fashioned way — pen and paper — and hand deliver it to whomever needs it. Now that’s commitment to old-school values. I suppose their success can be attributed to other factors outside of their family-business model. It doesn’t hurt that they have a quality inventory. They try to make something available for every Richmonder’s needs and budget, according to Maury, who adds, “We have something in everybody’s price range that is quality.”
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