Bed Bath & Beyond in Jenkintown is one of 360 Bed Bath & Beyond and 120 Buy Buy Baby stores and websites that will close for good by the summer.

The chain of home furnishing stores has filed for bankruptcy and will begin closing its stores this week. Beginning Wednesday, it will stop accepting coupons, and customers will have until May 8 to use Bed Bath & Beyond gift cards.

The company has not stated when its store apps will shut down.

From The New York Times‘s April 23 coverage:

On Sunday, the 52-year-old retailer said it was filing for bankruptcy protection in United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. It said it would start the process of closing the company’s 360 Bed Bath & Beyond stores and 120 Buy Buy Baby locations on Wednesday and seek to sell parts of its business. In its Chapter 11 filing, the company said it expected all stores to close by June 30.

The company, which began in 1971, had 311 stores in 2000. A decade later, it had 1,100. Owners cite evolving consumer behavior, pandemic-related supply chain issues, and competitors like Amazon, Target and Walmart investing in the online shopping experience as reasons for the retailer’s decline.

The Bed Bath & Beyond Jenkintown location is at 905 York Road.

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Photo courtesy of Bed Bath & Beyond