Sleep Number

Here’s the deal… A friend and I came here to shop for a bed for her and her husband. We weren’t greeted, when we asked questions we got generic short answers, and no one seemed really interested in helping us. So she walked away without buying anything.
That said, this store is a welcome rest stop to take a short nap in a busy mall.

For the last year and a half, my husband and I have been buying cheap pillows to avoid throwing down some hefty cash for some good ones. But recently, for the past couple of weeks I have had it with my last cheap pillow! I’ve had some restless sleep as well as some soreness in my neck and shoulders. I hated that I would fluff my pillow and yet, it still was uncomfortable and flat! And then you have my husband who every so often pinches a nerve or experiences some muscle pain around the neck area. Yeah… that’s when you know it’s bad… and that you need to invest some hard earned money into some pillows that gives you some well rested sleep and comfort!
We shopped around Herberger’s for some pillows, looking at cost and warranties and such on memory foam pillows. The price ranged from $ 50 – 70 and we weren’t sure if we wanted to put money into a memory foam pillow that we knew we wouldn’t be completely satisfied with.
On our way to dinner at the MOA, we came across Sleep Number, by Select Comfort. I believe it’s on the first floor over by DSW Shoes. It’s right in the middle of the corridor, and it’s in a circular shaped store. We decided that it wouldn’t hurt to check it out, if anything, learn about the products. We were approached my Elena, a ‘Sleep Associate’. She was very informative about «pillow[ology]», which was to create your own perfect pillow. Who knew you could build your own pillow?!? I thought they just came as one large pillow that either came as a down alternative, down, or memory foam… but there was so much more to that!
After telling Elena that I was a side sleeper, she looked at me and my neck and said, I know what to build you, and grabbed what was called a down alternative «outer-​core», a feather «inner-​core», and a «silver» pillow protector. I watch her put this feather inner-​core into the outer-​core and as she puts on this so-​called «silver» pillow protector, she’s explaining that there is actual silver in the pillow protector and that it is antimicrobial and that it’s supposed to keep your body temperature balanced… and after that I was just about sold. The only other thing left to do was try it! I laid on it on my side and just thought how heavenly this was! It was very different to feel my neck AND my head was nicely supported. Who knew that pillows were supposed to do that!?! I was amazed to hear about the advancements in pillows… man I felt like I was living in the stone ages or something. But, I was completely sold after lying on it!
So, cost… there was a promotional sale going that if you bought 6 items, you get 30% off your total purchase. So we bought 2 pillow shams that were already on sale, and then there was the 2 pillows and the 2 «silver» pillow protectors. One pillow without the discount would have been about $ 100. With the discount, it came out to be just about $ 70 each. How did we justify the purchase you ask? Well, we figured, it’s great that they let us try it for 30 days, otherwise we could EXCHANGE it for something else. Also, there is a 5 year warranty on it, and the most important thing was that we didn’t have to toss it out, we could just buy a new inner core or a new outer core if either one wasn’t to our satisfaction in the long run. Whereas if you buy a pillow elsewhere, you never know if they let you return it after you’ve tried it for oh so many days. And with the number of pillows we’ve bought so far, it pretty much added up to the amount we spent on these Sleep Number pillows.
There are so many combinations in building your pillow. Therefore, the price ranges as well. I was told that if you have a Sleep Number bed, you could get 10% off your purchase if you didn’t want to buy 6 items for the larger discount.