Harmon Closes All NJ Stores As Bed Bath & Beyond Downsizes

NEW JERSEY — Bed Bath & Beyond shuttered all Harmon Face Values locations as the retailer's downsizing continues. Thirty of the last 50 Harmon stores were in New Jersey.

A spokesperson for Bed Bath & Beyond, which owns Harmon, confirmed to Patch that all Harmon stores have closed. The beauty retailer became the latest casualty as New Jersey-based Bed Bath & Beyond struggles to stay in business and hurdles toward potential bankruptcy.

Bed Bath Beyond has closed 87 of its namesake stores and five Buy Buy Baby locations, as well.

Bed Bath & Beyond, headquartered in Union, shuttered three of its namesake locations in New Jersey as of mid-January — in Paramus, Flanders and Manalapan. Read more: More Closures For Bed Bath & Beyond, Buy Buy Baby In NJ

New Jersey has 26 remaining Bed Bath & Beyond locations.

The company has struggled to find a buyer in bankruptcy so far, so Bed Bath & Beyond may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection without a bidder for its assets, Bloomberg reported Friday.

Regulatory documents revealed Jan. 5 that the chain has considered filing for bankruptcy protection. Read more: Bed Bath & Beyond Warns Of Bankruptcy; Future Of 29 NJ Stores In Doubt

Bed Bath & Beyond announced in September that it would close 150 of its roughly 900 stores and cut 20 percent of its workforce. The chain has a list of 120 stores set to shutter as of Jan. 10, which includes some Harmon and Buy Buy Baby locations.

The list of closures doesn't include the remaining Harmon stores that recently shuttered.

Forty-five of Harmon's 50 remaining 50 stores were in New York and New Jersey, including 30 in the Garden State. Harmon also had two locations in California and one apiece in Connecticut, Florida and Nevada.

Bed Bath & Beyond has made massive job cuts in recent years, reducing the workforce from 65,000 in 2018 to 32,000 as of March, according to Macrotrends data. The corporation cut 328 jobs in Port Reading last year — New Jersey's largest single-location mass layoff in 2022. Port Reading is home to a Bed Bath & Beyond e-commerce fulfillment center.