Popular home goods chain files for bankruptcy amid tariff trouble

CNN ^ | 6/16/25 | Jordan Valinsky, CNN

[DallasBiff]

New York CNN —

At Home, a popular home goods retailer with 260 stores across 40 US states, has filed for bankruptcy, citing the backdrop of tariff increases and a slowdown in consumer spending.

The Dallas-based company announced Monday that it had entered an agreement with its lenders that “will eliminate substantially all” of its roughly $2 billion in debt and provide $200 million in fresh funding to keep At Home operating while it navigates the Chapter 11 process.

Brad Weston, At Home’s CEO who joined the company last year, said in a statement that the company is “operating against the backdrop of an increasingly dynamic and rapidly evolving trade environment as we navigate the impact of tariffs” and that the changes “will improve our ability to compete in the marketplace in the face of continued volatility and increase the resilience of our business for the long term.”

[DallasBiff]

Never heard of the store, I guess they were a competitor to IKEA.

Of course CNN had to make it a derogatory towards Trump headline.

[fruser1]

The only popular stores that go bankrupt are the mismanaged ones.

[spincaster]

That is what happens, when you fill your store with Chinese junk!

[Uncle Miltie]

“Popular” seems an overstatement.

[txeagle]

You can only sell so many “Live, Love, Laugh” wall graphics.....

[Codeflier]

They were in trouble long before the tariffs. That’s just the CEO excuse to give cover. A little like Bed Bath and Beyond.

[caww]

As state......” its roughly $2 billion in debt”....

Tariffs didn’t create that debt - looks like company was long in trouble prior.

[kelly4c]

It’s not Chinese junk at this place, it’s rather expensive stuff, tho I caught a good deal there once.

[Dr. Sivana]

Never heard of the store, I guess they were a competitor to IKEA.

That's what the Daily Mail stated. They are wrong.

@home was closer to a "Linens and Things"/"Bed Bath and Beyond" competitor, with a touch of "pier One" and upscale "Big Lots" thrown in. They sell home office organizing, overpriced low end furniture, knick-knacks, old-school candy and novelty snacks. They do NOT sell much assemble yourself wood furniture or Swedish Meatballs. They are a tiny fraction of the size of a typical Ikea.

[Dr. Sivana]

It’s not Chinese junk at this place, it’s rather expensive stuff

It might be expensive, but it is still largely Chinese.

[Red Badger]

Bed, Bath and Bankrupt..................

[caww]

Also stating.......” At Home's CEO who joined the company LAST YEARl”

Also indicates they had a previous bad managerial problem that created their $2 billion dollar debt.

[existentially_kuffer]

STOP cheap quality imports particularly from China! If you can, buy American!

[toldyou]

I’ve shopped there three times while in Phoenix. Big store. Besides my daughter and me, there were 2-3 other people shopping. They did give a 10% military discount.

[caww]

Those wall graphics are now considered very “outdated” decoration items.

[Robert A Cook PE]

No. Tens of thousands of very chintzy, cheap, lightweight Chinese-imported “wall art” and folded sheet tin metal cr*p.

[crusty old prospector]

We have one in our town. Never been in it. My idea of wall decorations are deer antlers.

[SaxxonWoods]

I shopped there for Christmas gifts. Good for little household items like placemats, teapots, small gifts, cards, area rugs, etc. but everything they sold was available in many other places, quality was medium level.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

About 20 years ago, there was a wave of “home goods” stores opening that sold cheap products and knick-knacks, mainly catering to women. Since COVID, a lot of them have gone bankrupt or disappeared for some other reason.

[fwdude]

We have At Home in my area, just discovered them about 5 years ago. They sell cheap crap. I call them the Harbor Freight of home goods.