Berkshire's Nebraska Furniture Mart will keep its new Kansas City-area store open on Sundays.

The promise is that Nebraska Furniture Mart's new Kansas City-area store would operate on Sundays. Judge it from when the store opened through the end of 2003. TRUE: the store opened on or before the end of 2003 and kept regular Sunday trading hours during 2003. MOSTLY TRUE: it was open on Sundays in 2003, except for minor exceptions such as specific holidays. MOSTLY FALSE: it was open on Sundays only part of the time (e.g., seasonally), or it did not open until after 2003 and then kept Sunday hours. FALSE: positive evidence shows the store was closed on Sundays during 2003, e.g., published store hours, news reports, or later Berkshire letters describing it as closed on Sundays. If the store never opened, it is also FALSE.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter 2003: cleaned full text | izsxx.com izsxx.com (third-party archive reproducing Berkshire's 2003 shareholder letter) · 2003 Own record

   “Both R. C. Willey and Nebraska Furniture Mart (“ NFM”) opened hugely successful stores last year, Willey in Las Vegas and NFM in Kansas City, Kansas.”

2. E2 Nebraska Furniture Mart VMSD (Visual Merchandising and Store Design) · 3 November 2003

   “From a distance, the enormous 712,000-square-foot Nebraska Furniture Mart looks almost like a mall amidst the new Village West development in Kansas City, Kan.”

3. E3 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter 2003: cleaned full text | izsxx.com izsxx.com (third-party archive of Berkshire's 2003 shareholder letter) Own record

   “Both R. C. Willey and Nebraska Furniture Mart (“ NFM”) opened hugely successful stores last year, Willey in Las Vegas and NFM in Kansas City, Kansas.”

4. E4 Nebraska Furniture to Expand its Kansas City Locat - Floor Daily Floor Daily · 28 July 2005

   “The store, at 1601 Village West Parkway near the Kansas Speedway, opened in August 2003.”

5. E5 NFM celebrates 20th anniversary in Kansas City, Kansas KSHB · 20 September 2023

   “One of the first retailers to open in Kansas City, Kansas’ new Village West development around the Kansas Speedway was Nebraska Furniture Mart in 2003.”

6. E6 Nebraska Furniture Mart Wikipedia

   “The Kansas City store opened in 2003 in the Village West development on the far western edge of”

7. E7 Who Owns Nebraska Furniture Mart? WhoBrands

   “In 2003, NFM opened its third store in Kansas City, Kansas, in the Village West complex.”

Independent sources show that Nebraska Furniture Mart's Kansas City, Kansas store opened within the judging window: E4 says it opened in August 2003, and E5 and E6 also place the opening in 2003. Berkshire's 2003 letter (E1/E3) says the store was a success, but it says nothing about trading days. None of the evidence gives store hours or says whether the store opened or closed on Sundays in 2003. That was the core of the promise, so it cannot be judged true or false.