Compact fluorescents are being shoved aside by LED bulbs

The twisted compact fluorescent light bulb has long been used as a design element to represent up-to-date technology, but at the rate things are going it will soon be representing out-of-date technology. “Right now, we’re still doing about half and half” of LED and non-LED bulb sales, said Crystal Murray, assistant manager at Lighting Place in Concord. Compact fluorescent and halogen bulbs make up the rest of sales, she said, but LEDs are growing. “About half of people who come in looking for bulbs are looking for an LED. . . . And if they pick up a fixture and we ask them if they need bulbs to go with it, they almost always choose the LEDs, even with the price point difference,” Murray said.