Brad Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Looking like we could lose several more retailers this year. Bed Bath & Beyond getting close to bankruptcy https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/business/bed-bath-beyond-coupon-future/index.html Party City nears bankruptcy https://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/2023/01/06/party-city-nears-bankruptcy-as-it-runs-through-cash/ Macy's closing a few more stores https://www.axios.com/2023/01/05/macys-store-closing-list-2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 Some good/bad Best Buy news this morning: Thank you for being a My Best Buy member. A couple of changes are coming to the program that we'd like to let you know about.Shipping change:Starting now, as a My Best Buy member you'll get free shipping on all BestBuy.com orders, with no minimum purchase required. You'll also continue to have access to exclusive member offers, order tracking and your saved purchase history.Reward points change:The second change is that on February 14, 2023, earning points on eligible Best Buy purchases will become an exclusive benefit of the My Best Buy Credit Card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 That second part sucks. Honestly can't tell you the last time I actually ordered from BB for shipping. It's been years. I just do pickup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 Party City files for bankruptcy https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/business/party-city-bankruptcy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marathonshopper Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Some good/bad Best Buy news this morning: Thank you for being a My Best Buy member. A couple of changes are coming to the program that we'd like to let you know about. Shipping change:Starting now, as a My Best Buy member you'll get free shipping on all BestBuy.com orders, with no minimum purchase required. You'll also continue to have access to exclusive member offers, order tracking and your saved purchase history. Reward points change:The second change is that on February 14, 2023, earning points on eligible Best Buy purchases will become an exclusive benefit of the My Best Buy Credit Card.I guess for me this is ok news. I like the free shipping now, and as for the reward certificates, I didn’t spend enough the last 2 years to even earn one, and I’m sure not opening a credit card with them just to earn rewards. Not worth it to me, since we don’t seem to be buying a ton there these days. I would have thought that in order to draw more customers back in, that lowering the spend amount to earn a reward would be better than making it where only a limited amount of customers earn them. Back a few years ago when the spend amount was considerably less than it is now, we used to earn rewards fairly frequently and we always spent much more when we redeemed the rewards. But the free shipping will come in handy if we do order something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marathonshopper Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 I really hope Party City and Bed, Bath & Beyond can turn it around, particularly Bed, Bath & Beyond for me. I am a gadget girl and they get a chunk of $ from me. I hate when brick-and-mortar stores close because I am a person that likes to see the quality of an item before buying. Not all places offer free returns and I hate to have to return things anyhow. I’d rather just be able to see what I’m getting and know I have it in hand instead of ordering and hoping it shows up, and is intact when it does!! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 I’ve relied less and less on Amazon the past few years. I’ve grown tired of having to return so much stuff because it’s garbage with what appears to be 15,000 fake reviews. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucyismycat Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Macy's closing a few more stores https://www.axios.com/2023/01/05/macys-store-closing-list-2023 for the life of me, I cannot understand how our local Macy’s store is still in operation. I TRY a to shop there, but they don’t have anything in store. I haven’t been able to buy clothes for my kids in at least two years. If I want something, I have to order it, and it’s 5-8 days for shipping. I went again at Christmas to see what they had, and there are huge open areas of the store with no merchandise whatsoever. What they do have looks like a yard sale. I’m glad they’re still there, I guess? But I’m not sure how. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cllehto Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 for the life of me, I cannot understand how our local Macy’s store is still in operation. I TRY a to shop there, but they don’t have anything in store. I haven’t been able to buy clothes for my kids in at least two years. If I want something, I have to order it, and it’s 5-8 days for shipping. I went again at Christmas to see what they had, and there are huge open areas of the store with no merchandise whatsoever. What they do have looks like a yard sale. I’m glad they’re still there, I guess? But I’m not sure how. I went to the local Macy's after Christmas. They didn't have much besides the Christmas clearance stuff at 50-75% off. Lots of empty space. I thought maybe it was just because it was after Christmas. The floors has damaged and missing tiles. It just didn't look like a nice place to shop any more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freesia39 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Official farewell to Bed, Bath and Beyond - https://www.npr.org/2023/04/24/1152070914/bed-bath-the-great-beyond-how-the-home-goods-giant-went-bankrupt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Pam Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 I received an email this morning saying all Tuesday Morning stores are closing and gift cards will be accepted until May 13th. Is there any further information on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freesia39 Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 I received an email this morning saying all Tuesday Morning stores are closing and gift cards will be accepted until May 13th. Is there any further information on this?https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-morning-news/dallas-retailer-tuesday-morning-is-going-out-of-business-liquidation-sales-coming-soon/3247036/ Dallas-based Tuesday Morning Corp. is going out of business after being sold out of bankruptcy Thursday to a liquidation company.The retailer, which in February filed a second bankruptcy in three years, has been closing stores in recent years, but it still has 59 stores in Texas, including 18 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucyismycat Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 And now Instant Brands declaring bankruptcy https://www.cbsnews.com/news/instant-pot-bankruptcy-instant-brands-chapter-11/ I did not realize they also own Pyrex and CorningWare. It's a sad day for our house, DH's Father's Day present just showed up yesterday...a new Instant Air Fryer. We love our InstantPot and use it at least weekly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 From what I read they aren’t going away just trying to reorganize some debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted June 23 Author Share Posted June 23 Overstock.com wins auction for Bed Bath and Beyond's assets https://www.cbsnews.com/news/overstock-com-wins-auction-bed-bath-and-beyond-assets/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 So all of the stores are going to be gone. This really never seems to work when a brick and mortar is turned into an online only. The company that buys them loads up the site with garbage never sold there before and then it fails also. CompUSA, Circuit City both come to mind where this was tried and failed. Sad to see this store go away also even though due to really high pricing we rarely shopped there any longer. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freesia39 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 It's the last two days of my local BB&B - went in today, as it was down to 80-90% off. Nothing much there unless you wanted to a rug - they had plenty of those - along with cloth shower curtains (ugh.) I'll miss you, BB&B - always went there first if I needed something for the kitchen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted June 29 Author Share Posted June 29 Overstock.com announced that they are going to ditch their name and take on Bed Bath & Beyond as their name over the next few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freesia39 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 That's probably a smart move for Overstock - BB&B has the better long term brand recognition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 Kind of an odd thing with no brick and mortar stores but I guess the name has more clout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted June 30 Author Share Posted June 30 I assume Overstock will just raise their prices by 20% and have an evergreen 20% coupon like BB&B did lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 You sure it won’t be raise by 30% and then have a 20% coupon? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted June 30 Author Share Posted June 30 3 minutes ago, Kanyon71 said: You sure it won’t be raise by 30% and then have a 20% coupon? Yeah they'd actually have to raise them by 25% to get back to the regular price after 20% off, so 30% gives them some extra $. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packratfamily Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 I still miss Borders. And Kmart.- good thing I stocked up on clothes At least there still is Barnes and Noble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 Been getting emails from them, guess they have now switched over to Bed Bath & Beyond now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracy0504 Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 On 9/20/2023 at 8:57 PM, packratfamily said: I still miss Borders. And Kmart.- good thing I stocked up on clothes At least there still is Barnes and Noble. I miss Borders and Kmart as well... they were the best during BF... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kash Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 On 9/25/2023 at 12:46 PM, tracy0504 said: I miss Borders and Kmart as well... they were the best during BF... I loved Kmart for bf sales and their lay away. Helped stretch the budget. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokie7373 Posted October 2 Share Posted October 2 Toys r us is trying to come back https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/29/toys-r-us-to-open-new-us-stores-and-airport-and-cruise-ship-shops.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted October 2 Share Posted October 2 Cruise ship part seems kind of odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokie7373 Posted October 3 Share Posted October 3 I thought it was odd too, maybe on Disney cruises where there are more kids? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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