[12] In March 2020, Mattress Firm was one of several retailers to announce it would not pay some or all of its rent in April due to the effects of COVID-19.

[16] The retail bedding manufacturer The Sleep Train Inc operated primarily in California.

In June 2000, Sleep Train sold 24 of its stores (mainly in Seattle and Portland), or about 30 percent of its business, to Fenway Partners,[17] a New York private-investment firm which had acquired Sleep Country USA, a competing chain established in 1991, three months earlier.

[25] On September 4, 2014, Mattress Firm Inc. announced it would buy The Sleep Train Inc. for $425 million.

[26] In February and March 2017, the Sleep Train stores were renamed as Mattress Firm outlets.

[27] Sleep Country USA was a Pacific Northwest bedding retailer founded in 1991.

[30] In 2003, Fenway Partners sold Sleep Country USA to the Atlanta-based Simmons Company.

[further explanation needed] In July 2015, the Kent, Washington-based Sleep Country USA company announced that it would begin rebranding all of its stores with the Sleep Train name, the California-based company that Mattress Firm now owns.

[35] In 2015, Mattress Firm announced its plans to buy out its competitor Sleepy's for $780 million.

[37] Sleep America was an Arizona bedding retailer founded in 1997 by Debbie and Leonard Gaby.