Hey, I’m happy to blame Amazon for just about everything, but in this case it’s more likely blue state government run amok.
The list:
California
Chino Hills: 13021 Peyton Drive
Encino: 17401 Ventura Blvd.
Hemet: 1165 S. Sanderson Ave.
Santa Clarita: 19211 Golden Valley Road
Tracy: 2886 West Grant Line Road
Connecticut
Shelton: 862 Bridgeport Ave.
District of Columbia
Washington D.C.: 709 7th Street NW
Florida
Tampa: 12803 Citrus Plaza Drive
Hawaii
Honolulu: 1200 Ala Moana Blvd.
Iowa
Council Bluffs: 3706 Metro Drive
West Des Moines: 6805 Mills Civic Parkway
Illinois
Chicago: 530 N. State Street
McHenry: 3340 Shoppers Drive
Mount Prospect: 1057 N. Elmshurst Rd.
Louisiana
Baton Rouge: 9001 Florida Blvd.
Maryland
Owings Mills: 10300 Reisterstown Road
New Jersey
Parsippany: 790 Route 46
Newton: 17 Hampton House Road
Sewell: 141 Tuckahoe Road Suite 190
New Mexico
Rio Rancho: 3575 NM Highway 528 NE
New York
Bronx: 610 Exterior Street
Cheektowaga: 3781 Union Road
West Nyack: 1406 Palisades Center Drive
North Dakota
Grand Forks: 3841 32nd Ave. South
Ohio
Cincinnati: 6068 Glenway Ave.
Grove City: Parkway Centre South, 1747 Stringtown Road
Mayfield Heights: East Gate Shopping Center, 1371 SOM Center Road
North Olmsted: 25975 Great Northern Plaza
Pennsylvania
Muncy: 290 South Lycoming Mall Road
Johnstown: Richland Town Centre, 340 Town Centre Drive
Rhode Island
Providence: 24 Providence Place
Texas
Austin: 9600 IH-35 Service Road
Harlingen: 2817 W. Expressway 83 Frontage
Houston: West Oaks Shopping Center, 2306 S Highway 6
Houston: 700 Meyerland Plaza
Houston: 6675 Highway 6 North
Utah
Midvale: The Family Center at Fort Union, 7210 S. Union Park Ave.
West Valley City: 3595 S. Constitution Blvd.
Virginia
Stafford: 1190 Stafford Marketplace
Wisconsin
Racine: 2360 S. Green Bay Road
Large malls have not aged well. I wonder about the air quality in them - germs galore.
There was some commentary in Barron’s magazine about the company. Apparently they’ve been running a low margin business, and they hired a new CEO from Target. Supposedly, he’s cleaning house and tightening things up. Improvement is possible but not guaranteed.
People have been wondering how long Bed, Bath & Beyond would last for at least 5-7 years.
Our Chino Hills store was one of the closures. It was in a dead shopping center with only the Costco and Lowe’s viable. I think they could have made a go of it just relocating a couple miles in other thriving Shopping centers. Both Best Buy and BevMo made that move out the same dead Shopping Center to two miles away in Chino.
I’m glad the one my wife and I go to in Stafford, TX is not on the list. They are also opening a new Cost Plus/World Market in the same shopping Center.
I read a review on Amazon for a memory foam mattress. One of the reviews mentioned that their 12” deep mattress only expanded to about 8 inches, and when they complained, Amazon just gave them a refund. So I told my wife, “hey, 8 inches is fine, lets give it a try”.
So we ordered the 12” and, sure enough, after 4 days, it only expanded to ~8 inches. We emailed to return it and they said they can’t take returns on mattresses so they just gave us a refund.
Free mattress. WOOHOO!
My wife will be devastated if the one she frequents closes. She has about 50 coupons for 20% off she keeps stuffed in the side pocket in her car door.
It’s not so much bricks-and-mortar are dead, as big box stores with a great deal of space between SKU’s are dead. Most of these store chains need to go on a diet, space-wise, and price-wise. The first should lead to the second, but these chains aren’t taking the hint. Macy’s cannot survive if its typical store is 5x the typical TJ Maxx. It’s not just the rent - it’s the staffing needed to keep theft down and deal with customer queries.
It amazes me that Bed, Bath & Beyond lasted as long as it did. Its merchandise is incredibly over-priced.
Good. BB&B is garbage. I’ve been in one maybe 3 times and never had a good experience.
It’s a victim of it’s own clueless management.
There is a store over in the nearest big town.
In the section with the silverware and cutlery there is not one long handled teaspoon to be found.
No icepicks.
A constant litany of missing basics.
They have little electronic knickknacks trying to anticipate the latest fad.
Their kitchenware and place settings are haphazard at best.
Our local mall is about dead. Sears gone, Elder Berman gone, now Maceys.
I do see niche stores opening around town and they seem to be doing well.
That’s unfortunate. I don’t like to shop online. I like to be able to physically handle whatever I’m shopping for—especially shoes and clothing. You can’t try something on through the computer screen.
And I like to be able to immediately take the item home after I’ve purchased it. I don’t like having to wait days or weeks for it and then risk losing it to porch pirates when it is delivered.
adjust to the changing market and rename it bed bath & bong...
problem solved...
I like BB&B, but in the last couple of years I’ve probably spent a total of $500 there. They’re not going to stay in business because of me. Their prices are competitive. I was shopping for a robot vacuum for christmas and got it there. Better than Amazon at the time.
I like to walk around B B & B just to see some of the cool stuff.
I was thinking of going to Bed Bath & Beyond this Saturday, but I don’t know if I’ll have enough time.
Never understood the appeal of this place. Most of what it carried could be found for elsewhere cheaper, even before Amazon. And for all the hundreds of gadgets and as-seen-on-TV products it did have, it always seemed to be missing some pretty basic items in each department the few times I checked it out.
Maybe those 20%-off-one item coupons that they give out like candy are what made it so popular.