Nebraska Furniture Mart KC

Nebraska Furniture Mart Kansas City provides shoppers in the Kansas City metropolitan area with the largest selection of furniture, mattresses, electronics, appliances and flooring in America. You’ll enjoy an unparalleled shopping experience in this state-of-the-art facility.

Established in 1937.
Born outside of Minsk, Russia, in 1893, Rose Gorelick followed her husband, Isadore Blumkin to America in 1917 to take on the American dream. By 1922, the young couple had scraped together enough money to have her family flee Russia and join them in America. In addition to raising their four children, Mrs. B helped with her husband’s business ventures, including a second-hand clothing shop. Finding deals on men’s suits and accessories, she printed 10,000 circulars that offered to outfit a man from head to toe for five dollars – an amazingly fair deal for the times. It worked nicely, and she made a respectable profit. In 1937, the Nebraska Furniture Mart was founded in the basement of her husband’s shop. Her belief in selling at tiny margins created rough going early on with the manufacturers boycotting Mrs. B at the urging of local competition, who generally operated on higher markups. Traveling by train to Kansas City, Chicago and New York, she became a proficient furniture bargain