Originally published at: Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy protection | Boing Boing
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So you’re telling me that I need to use all of those 20% off coupons now?
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They’d already jettisoned the Canadian stores in February.
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When a troubled company’s CFO jumps off a building the company will eventually follow.
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Bed, Bath enters the Great Beyond.
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Why yes, Rob is telling you that.
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No more soapy sales.
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BZZT! Oh I know! Is it: “What is Third-Party Equity Financing?”
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Verily, their bubble has popped.
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Given the way these liquidation sales work, that might, maybe get you to the prior list price.
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That sort of failure should trigger a blacklisting of their CxO’s ever holding a position of importance again.
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Wait, so it wasn’t Amazon that killed it?
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By the 26th, according to the email I got from the CEO on Sunday.
My spouse demanded we go shopping for curtains.
I don’t think this was a surprise to anyone who’s been in one of these in the past 6 months. They’ve been pretty empty, even in the stores that haven’t closed. In the Chicago area, they close many big stores that were quasi-anchors of strip or mini malls and were certainly busy. You don’t close those if finances are struggling just a bit.
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Yes.
Specifically:
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my local store had their liquidation sale a couple of weeks ago. It’s gone now, perhaps to be replaced with a spirit halloween store.
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Soupy Sales was my stepsisters’ next door neighbor and BABYSITTER. Can you even imagine?!
Back on topic, I’ll miss them. We’ve often been able to find stuff there what we couldn’t find elsewhere, and well priced. Fuck. I’m so sick and tired of scrolling thru 573,824 items which are completely unrelated to the item I’m looking for at hamazon!
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Uh, what? I…can only imagine Pinterest sells digital versions of those picture frame cluster wall hangings?
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