More Options: Color » More Options: COLOR » Wide Width Stadium Chair On Your Back Backpack Beach Chair C Series Joey Chair Adult Cooler Quad Chair Outdoor Giant Kingpin Folding Chair in Black On The Edge Marketing Outdoor Giant Kingpin Folding Chair in Red Waves Ventura Seat Portable Recliner Chair Vibe Ventura Seat Portable Recliner Chair Army Ventura Chair with Cushions Stadium Backpack Chair with Insulated cooler Picnic Chair with Cooler HEX 2.0 Long Back Chair Apex Deluxe Arm Chair Texas Flag Lawn Chair Fleur de Lis Lawn Chair Signature Cooler Quad Chair Outdoor King Pin Folding Chair in Blue Outdoor King Pin Folding Chair in Black / White Outdoor King Pin Folding Chair in Black NFL Digital Print Ventura Seat with Armrests Apex Deluxe Sling Back Chair Apex Deluxe Oversized Arm Chair As the days get longer and winter fades, its time for outdoor living. From deck chairs and tables to chair pads and lanterns, you’ll discover all you need for alfresco entertaining on outdoor porches, patios and backyard spaces.
Australians love the great outdoors, and so does Bed Bath N’ Table. Close to the Beach - Pets Welcome One block to white sand beach This listing was first published here in 2013. Date last modified - Sunday, February 19, 2017 This property requires that you message the owner to complete your booking request. Tell us about your trip: My travel dates are flexible Your dates are Available! Act now, book this property Save info for other inquiries By clicking 'Send email' you are agreeing to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Select one of the following reasons and our VRBO Trust & Security Team will look into it. I was asked to pay outside of VRBO's website The owner/manager requested I complete my booking and make a payment outside of VRBO's website. This listing should not be on VRBO It appears suspicious or might be fraudulent. Spam or inappropriate content The listing contains questionable, promotional or spam content.
The calendar is not accurate The owner/manager said my dates were not available or offered me a different property. Not covered by the reasons above. We appreciate your participation and assistance with our efforts to operate the most secure and trusted vacation rental marketplace in the industry If you have any questions, please visit our Help Center. You must be signed in to share this property by e-mail Chic embossed leather suits those who own a beach�or Hemingway fans. Only made for the deck, though: It weighs twenty pounds, and it’s bound to heat up (18 Ninth Ave., nr. 13th St.; 212-647-8415). Fabric backrest gives ample support, but the wood seat is rather unforgiving. for easy storage in a car or apartment, and, at nine pounds, just light enough to carry (97 Greene St., The La-Z-Boy of the beach is so cozy, it’s bound to put you to sleep; the SPF 45 is handy. it weighs eighteen pounds (147 E. 57th St., Cape Cod Beach Chair Company, $130
This limited-edition Regatta Plaid Beachcomber has a high back for neck support, three recliner positions, and a carry handle for easy transport. You can also have it monogrammed The Conran Shop, $99 Dandy stripes and canvas fabric make it ideal for beach-chair classicists, and the four reclining settings should keep (407 E. 59th St., nr. Pier 1 Imports, $75 Extra pillow required: Lean back too enthusiastically and your head hits hard wood. Prepare to struggle with the tricky arm adjustments and the weight�it’s eighteen pounds (71 Fifth Ave., at 15th St.; 212-206-1911). Eastern Mountain Sports, $30 At six pounds, this mini-chair is light enough for the beach and rugged enough for camping. no arms means it’s hard to get up from (20 W. 61st St., nr. Crate & Barrel, $29.95 Cheery color is perfect for Barbados�or Coney Island. The height is easy to maneuver, and the magazine pocket in the back is an added bonus (650 Madison Ave., at 59th St.; 212-308-0011).
Bed Bath & Beyond, $7.99 Lightweight steel frame weighs only 7.5 pounds and holds up to 250. Not much in the way of design, but it is equipped with the crucial cup holder (620 Sixth Ave., nr. 18th St.; 212-255-3550).As any American who loves face masks and lip plumper can attest, Sephora has a notoriously lenient return policy. They take back products–opened, used, even expired–no questions asked. But the company does this only in the United States. In Sephora stores in Singapore, France, and the United Arab Emirates, customers have just 14 days to return their purchases. Canada is a little more lenient with a 30-day leeway. And in most of these countries, there are no returns whatsoever for an opened product—no exceptions. So why are the policies within the same brand so vastly different across countries? The answer has everything to do with the nature of American commerce. Today, American consumers are conditioned to expect some type of insurance or guarantee on their purchases.
Many US-based brands, including REI, Zappos, Bed Bath & Beyond, Staples, Nordstrom, and Costco, boast proudly of their liberal attitudes toward returns. These perks are positioned as an extra reward for customers, a sign that retailers are willing to bend over backward to satisfy them. For example, Zappos promises, “If, for any reason, you are unsatisfied with your purchase from Zappos Retail, Inc. you may return it in its original condition within 365 days for a refund. We’ll even pay for return shipping!” The rise of e-commerce has also contributed to today’s return policies. As a product bought online instead of IRL has a much greater chance of not being what you hoped it to be, returns have become even more important for consumers. An analysis by Granify, an online retail consulting company, found that return policies are the most important factor in online purchase decisions, often surpassing price. Companies in the US capitalize on the psychology of buyer’s remorse.
As Nordstrom writes, “We hope to build trust with our customers and create a relationship with them for the long term.” Likewise, Zappos reported that customers who returned up to 50% of their orders are incidentally also their most profitable. There is definitely a financial incentive to go along with customers’ whims. A recent study published in the Journal of Retailing, conducted by Narayanan Janakiraman, Ryan Freling, and Holly Syrdal, found that lenient policies consistently lead to both increased returns and purchases, with a greater impact on purchase proclivity. So despite the substantial cost or lenient return policies for retailers (product returns cost US companies $284 billion in 2015), it still drives sales in the long run. Janakiraman, one of the authors of the study, is an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Dallas-Texas who specializes in consumer behavior. He says that countries with similar GDPs and income rates don’t employ the same return policies.
There are several possible factors that inform this difference. One is that once the no-questions-asked policy became an institution in the US, it became harder for individual companies to skirt it. When the first US companies started implementing them, “others followed suit, and pretty soon you have the whole industry offering return policies.” Because other countries haven’t yet had companies play into this mode of thinking, they haven’t yet entered the spiral. As the US is a large market with many companies competing for their consumers’ dollars, they also have more of an incentive to find ways to stand out and please customers. If France doesn’t have a multinational mega-store equivalent to Staples or REI, retailers there may not go to the same lengths to find an extra competitive edge by accepting returns willy-nilly. “If your competitive pressure is much lower or if you’re a monopoly, why offer it?” Then there’s the issue of good faith: A return policy is in the US serves as a reciprocal contract.
As Nordstrom writes, “Our philosophy is to deal with you fairly and reasonably; we hope you will be fair and reasonable with us as well.” L.L. Bean has a similar mentality: “Our guarantee is a handshake—a promise that we’ll be fair to each other.” Employees are required to remain neutral and refrain from revealing judgement or asking questions, regardless of how ludicrous the customer’s claim of “dissatisfaction.” This type of open-ended policy is predicated on a basic level of trust between consumers and companies that has been proven to be relatively higher in the US than in other areas of the world. But as with any trust-based model, once enough people take advantage (such as the person who returned their 30-year-old backpack to REI in exchange for cash), companies become risk-adverse. This explains why some US retailers have tightened their policies in the last few years. Still, as the summer comes to an end, some exploitative customers will inevitably return seasonal items such as beach chairs and surfboards.