Sales begin at 2 Jacksonville Bed Bath & Beyond stores slated to close

Deborah Griffin from Glen Saint Mary, Ga., makes her way to the Bed Bath & Beyond in Jacksonville's Argyle Forest area on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. The store is one of two locations in the Jacksonville area slated to close as the company deals with financial problems.
Deborah Griffin from Glen Saint Mary, Ga., makes her way to the Bed Bath & Beyond in Jacksonville's Argyle Forest area on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. The store is one of two locations in the Jacksonville area slated to close as the company deals with financial problems.

A day after Bed Bath & Beyond announced that 87 additional locations would close, sales have already begun at two Jacksonville stores scheduled to shutter.

On Wednesday morning, shoppers arrived at the home goods retailer’s Argyle Forest store to find “going out of business” signs on its front doors advertising 20% off everything in the store at 6001-24 Argyle Forest Blvd.

The store has been a fixture at the Southwest Jacksonville shopping center for more than 20 years since its opening in 2002.

Closing time:Bed Bath & Beyond closing 87 additional stores, including 2 in Jacksonville

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The second store on the chain’s closing list is on the city’s Northside, at 13221 City Station Drive at River City Marketplace. The store opened in 2006 as one of the first tenants of the sprawling regional shopping center.

A closing date for the two stores has not been announced.

Two other Bed Bath & Beyond stores in the Jacksonville area will remain open: 4054 3rd St. S. in Jacksonville Beach, and 8801 Southside Blvd. on the city’s Southside. The latter was Northeast Florida’s first Bed Bath & Beyond store when it opened in 1997 at Timberlin Village, where PetsMart, OfficeMax and the area's first Borders bookstore would follow. The OfficeMax store would later close and transition into andThat!, a subsidiary of Bed Bath & Beyond until 2020; the Borders store, too, closed, and is now a buybuy Baby store, which is owned by parent company Bed Bath & Beyond.

The retailer said the new closures expand an ongoing program to close 150 of its lowest-performing stores. Earlier announcements in September and January identified more than 110 stores slated to close. The retailer said in its third-quarter results report in January that it had seen net sales drop 33% to $1.26 billion, and announced an expected $500 million in general annualized cost cuts.

Impacted by the latest announcement are stores in more than 30 states, including Florida, where 11 stores will close.

Bed Bath & Beyond in Jacksonville's Argyle Forest area is one of two locations in Northeast Florida slated to close, the company announced Jan. 30.
Bed Bath & Beyond in Jacksonville's Argyle Forest area is one of two locations in Northeast Florida slated to close, the company announced Jan. 30.

Which Bed Bath and Beyond stores are closing in Florida?

Other Florida stores on the latest closings list include:

  • 1460 W 49th St., Hialeah

  • 320 Brandon Town Center Drive, Brandon

  • 20560 State Road 7, Boca Raton

  • 371 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach

  • 397 N. Alafaya Trail, Orlando

  • 4631 N. University Drive, Coral Springs

  • 540 N. State Road 7, Royal Palm Beach

  • 6001-24 Argyle Forest Blvd., Jacksonville

  • 13221 City Station Drive, Suite 125, Jacksonville

  • 14824 S. Military Trail, Delray Beach

  • 2239 E. Semoran Blvd., Apopka

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This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Bed Bath & Beyond: Going out of business sales begin at select stores

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