More Closures For Bed Bath & Beyond, Buy Buy Baby: These 7 NJ Stores Will Shutter

NEW JERSEY — Bed Bath & Beyond's plans for mass closures include seven stores in the state, as the New Jersey-based company's future remains in peril. The company has shut down seven of its stores in the Garden State, and tens of thousands of jobs remain in the balance.

The retailer announced plans last August to close 150 of its roughly 900 stores and cut 20 percent of its workforce, but the business didn't say which locations may close. Bed Bath & Beyond, which also owns Buy Buy Baby and Harmon Face Values, announced dozens of closures in September and now has a list of 120-plus locations that have shuttered or will do so.

The list, released Tuesday, includes the following New Jersey stores, which have permanently closed:

• Bed Bath & Beyond: 34 E Ridgewood Ave., Paramus
• Bed Bath & Beyond: 30 International Drive, Suite 1, Flanders
• Bed Bath & Beyond: 13 Route 9 S, Manalapan
• Buy Buy Baby: 601 Nassau Park Blvd., Princeton
• Buy Buy Baby: 327 Mount Hope Ave., Suite 1003, Rockaway
• Harmon: 399 Route 46 W, Rockaway
• Harmon: 3189 Route 46, Parsippany

The company announced in mid-September that the stores in Paramus, Flanders and Manalapan would shutter. New Jersey is down to 26 Bed Bath & Beyond locations, with headquarters in Union. Eight Buy Buy Baby locations and 30 Harmon stores remain open in the Garden State.

Bed Bath & Beyond hasn't announced any upcoming closures for its other New Jersey stores. The chain is considering filing for bankruptcy protection, regulatory documents revealed Jan. 5. Read more: Bed Bath & Beyond Warns Of Bankruptcy; Future Of 29 NJ Stores In Doubt

CNBC reported that Bed Bath & Beyond is having trouble obtaining sufficient merchandise to fill its shelves and is drawing fewer customers to its stores and website.

The company 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.

Bed Bath & Beyond 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.

The company 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.