I have a soda stream and BBB is where I exchanged my CO2 tanks. I’ll have to find another place to exchange my thanks.
This will free up room in many people’s glove boxes. 
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The BB&B near our home closed years ago. We rarely ever bought anything there. The times I ventured there, I usually found the prices significantly higher than elsewhere, even with coupons. Our kids didn’t used them in connection with college move in.
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The store closest to me is closing. In the last few years I only bought trash bags for my Simple Human trash cans at BBB-- it was the only place I could get them locally. I can also get them at the Container Store, but it’s 45 minutes away.
I will miss this store. We don’t live near a major department store at all, so it was nice to have BBB only 15 minutes away. Got lots of gifts there, and linens for us. @JustaMom5465 and I used to get our Wamsutta sheets (the ones we really liked have been discontinued, I think) at BBB. Great place to find glasses and towels, etc.
So many brick and mortar stores going out of business.
I have a HUGE bag of rhem. Going to the trash
Slowly and organically, I have become an almost total online shopper. After 65 years on this earth, there isn’t much retail I haven’t seen and touched in person to know exactly what I’m looking at online, even clothing fabric. BBB was never a go-to for me, but I’m wondering what, if anything, will move into that cavernous, empty space in our local outdoor mall. And I had to laugh at @CottonTales comment about freeing up glove boxes. It was always the passenger side door pocket in my mom’s car that had all those coupons sticking out poking my leg.
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Exactly. With so many brick and mortar stores closing…what will go there?
The BBB closest to us closed at least three years ago…actually longer because it was before COVID. Store remains empty.
The one in the other direction is in a plaza where there is a Homegoods closing (moving to a different plaza), and a large place that sold everything from shoes to bathing suits that is moving into a much smaller spot. So…on that end of the plaza there will be two huge empty places. And BBB is on the other end.
I remember when it was just Bed & Bath. The original store was in Springfield, NJ and I shopped there for college stuff in the 70s. I come from a large family and my mother thought the place was wonderful.
I remember comparing prices between BBB and Linens and Things when my older kid started grad school…shortly before Linens and Things closed.
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You can exchange SodaStream tanks at Target. But it was nice being able to get the 20% discount at BBB!
I have such fond memories of the college coupon. 20 percent off ALL your purchases and the ordering here and picking up in the college town. Those trips in their college towns felt fun and festive. For my older one we spent almost 2 hours in BBB and then 3 hours at Target! My husband almost lost his mind!
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The CNN article said that BB&B didn’t understand the importance of those coupons. It brings to mind when Coke changed its formulation to New Coke. Coke was able to rebound and do a course correction, but BB&B wasn’t able to.
There is a BB&B very close to me. Although I have lots of coupons, I might wait for the deep discounts later in the week. Or maybe I just won’t go at all. The last time I went (last year), I didn’t find what I was looking for.
I looked around on the website yesterday because I had $15 in rewards credits and a 20% off coupon on my account . I was considering replacing the soap dispensers and drinking cups in the bathroom but needed 2 of each, and they either only had one or it was a mixture of having to get some at the store and some shipped. I looked around for other things and finally decided to get something that would have cost about a dollar by the time the coupons and credits applied, but there were none in the stores in my area so I had to have it shipped. So it cost me about $9-10 or so
I’ll swing by if I’m near the store. But their prices usually were higher anyway without the coupon so I’m not expecting miracles for the sale.
Ooh that was fun- I read the CNN article and the person they interviewed/quoted who is managing director of the strategic resource group is an old college classmate of mine! (side note- its one of the fun benefits of going to a small LAC- easy to know many of one’s classmates!)
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“Deep Discounts” - when many other stores have gone into bankruptcy it seems 20% off is “deep”. At least initially. Sometimes they S-T-R-E-T-C-H those liquidations out so long that by the time you’re really getting the “deep” discount, only scraps are left!
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Stopped by the store near where I live today. Spent just over 30 bucks. Just got some shampoo and nail polish. Couldn’t get some coupons to work, but a 10 off 30 did.
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Ack autocorrects!! Fixed them.