Bed Bath & Beyond has filed for bankruptcy, and that means customers won’t have long to redeem gift cards or return items they recently bought.Several Bed Bath & Beyond stores have closed throughout New Hampshire in recent months, but five stores remain in the Granite State, along with a Buy Buy Baby in Nashua.Bed Bath & Beyond’s profits took a hit after stores closed for months because of the pandemic, and the company has been trying to cut costs by closing more than half its stores since late last year.The remaining 360 Bed Bath & Beyond and 120 Buy Buy Baby stores will remain open for now. The usual return and exchange policies will stay in effect until May 24, while gift cards and certificates are good until May 8. Coupons will no longer be valid after Wednesday.Rewards can be redeemed until May 15, but the stores will no longer be awarding them on purchases.Outside the Buy Buy Baby in Nashua on Monday, some moms and moms-to-be said that online shopping at other retailers can make things easy, but they enjoy being able to shop in-store and said there aren’t other options around. “There’s none at all,” said shopper Chelsey McCarthy, “Amazon, but you can’t feel things. You can’t look at things. It’s hard to return it after.”McCarthy said Buy Buy Baby has been a one-stop shop for her baby shopping. “We drove over an hour to get here because there are no other options anywhere else, other than the small section at Target, Walmart,” McCarthy said. The company said it anticipates all of its stores will be closed by the end of June. It said the wedding and baby registries at the stores are safe, and there are plans to add an alternative platform for registries.
Bed Bath & Beyond has filed for bankruptcy, and that means customers won’t have long to redeem gift cards or return items they recently bought.
Several Bed Bath & Beyond stores have closed throughout New Hampshire in recent months, but five stores remain in the Granite State, along with a Buy Buy Baby in Nashua.
Bed Bath & Beyond’s profits took a hit after stores closed for months because of the pandemic, and the company has been trying to cut costs by closing more than half its stores since late last year.
The remaining 360 Bed Bath & Beyond and 120 Buy Buy Baby stores will remain open for now.
The usual return and exchange policies will stay in effect until May 24, while gift cards and certificates are good until May 8. Coupons will no longer be valid after Wednesday.
Rewards can be redeemed until May 15, but the stores will no longer be awarding them on purchases.
Outside the Buy Buy Baby in Nashua on Monday, some moms and moms-to-be said that online shopping at other retailers can make things easy, but they enjoy being able to shop in-store and said there aren’t other options around.
“There’s none at all,” said shopper Chelsey McCarthy, “Amazon, but you can’t feel things. You can’t look at things. It’s hard to return it after.”
McCarthy said Buy Buy Baby has been a one-stop shop for her baby shopping.
“We drove over an hour to get here because there are no other options anywhere else, other than the small section at Target, Walmart,” McCarthy said.
The company said it anticipates all of its stores will be closed by the end of June. It said the wedding and baby registries at the stores are safe, and there are plans to add an alternative platform for registries.
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2023-04-25 02:32:00