How much do you know about the 'shelf life' of home furnishings expired furniture should be eliminated

The shelf life of food is highly valued, but few people pay attention to the shelf life of the home. Affected by real estate regulation this year, the overall market for the home furnishing industry is in a downturn. How to tap the market potential and seek new growth points has become a major issue for major stores and businesses. Recently, a well-known home furnishing store in Beijing launched a furniture 'trade-in' activity.

This move further strengthens the competitiveness and influence of home furnishing stores, and to a large extent finds new growth points for brands in the market competition. But at the same time as the event, the organizer also discovered a problem. In the process of recycling old furniture, it was discovered that consumers replaced the old furniture with new ones. Most of the above were 'over-age service' furniture, that is, it has passed. Its useful life. While consumers like to 'renew'Weak consciousness

In a home store, the author asked Ms. Liu, who was buying a mattress, 'Do you know that home furnishing products have a shelf life?' She said with a look of surprise: 'As long as the product's use function is not I will use it all the time. Many furniture in my house have been used for more than ten years. If it is not broken, I would not bear to discard it. After a long time, people and furniture will have feelings.'

In the survey, the author found that there are many people like Ms. Liu, especially the elderly, who think that as long as the household products are not broken, they can continue to use them. There are also some citizens who are uncomfortable about using old furniture, but most feel that over-aged household products are not as dangerous to use as waste TVs and gas stoves, so they hold the attitude of using them as long as they can be used.

When the author visited several large home furnishing stores in the urban area, I found that at the end of the year and the New Year holidays, 'price reduction promotion' signs were hung everywhere, although most home furnishing products clearly marked the price, specifications, origin, etc. Information, but no relevant information such as 'shelf life' and 'production date' is marked. The salesperson in the store told me that I have been selling furniture for many years, and I have never heard of saying that the product shelf life should be marked. The author also found that when sales staff introduce household products, they will give details about the price, performance and warranty of household products, and most of them do not explain the service life of household products.

How long is the 'shelf life' of the home? After some investigation, the author found that not many people seem to pay attention to this issue. Whether it is a home furnishing manufacturer, distributor or consumer, most of them know the 'warranty period' of household products, but they know very little about the 'warranty period'.

There is no uniform specification for the 'shelf life' of household products.

As for the 'product shelf life he term. The shelf life of the product is provided by the manufacturer and marked on the product for limited time use. During the warranty period, the manufacturer of the product is responsible for the quality of the product in compliance with the relevant standards or the quality conditions expressly guaranteed. The seller can sell these products with confidence and consumers can use it safely.

In this way, the shelf life does not only exist in the field of daily necessities such as food. In fact, household products also have a certain 'lifetime'. It's just that because many household products are large and durable products, their shelf life has been ignored. 'When the product leaves the factory, the furniture we produce only has a warranty period, and the warranty period is not specified, which is basically the case in the industry,' said Zhao Jiayao, president of City Window Furniture.

So, do the relevant national departments have a unified standard for the preservation period of furniture products? With questions, the author consulted the National Quality Supervision and Inspection Department and the China Furniture Association. The staff said that my country has not issued relevant standards for the time being. The shelf life of furniture is stipulated. Subsequently, the author inquired about the relevant regulatory documents and found that the catalogue that mentioned the implementation of the three guarantees did not make clear provisions on the warranty period of household products.

Related experts dedicated to furniture research said that the shelf life of home furnishings can only be subject to the manufacturer's own regulations. In China, different furniture manufacturers have different regulations on the shelf life of their products. The high-grade international furniture brand products have a relatively long warranty period, but they will provide lifetime warranty services for the purchased products.