78-year-old furniture chain closing all stores nationwide

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4. A lot of retail outlets have gotten lazy over the decades

and gone over to 100% importing their wares.
Why buy hardwood from overseas and make furniture in America, when it is cheaper to import the finished product?

One very common supply for wooden furniture is from Indonesia, where old growth forests of valuable hardwoods have, and are being decimated.
South America too, I'd guess.

No one wants furniture made from locally grown or Canadian pine, right?

Tariffs are going to drive a lot out of business.