Overstock Acquires Bed Bath and Beyond Assets

Retail
Written By Rick Watson

Overstock.com is an online discount retailer that offers a wide range of products, including furniture, home decor, bedding, and more.

Bed Bath & Beyond is a retail chain that offers a variety of home goods, including bedding, furniture, and decor.

Well it finally happened Watsonians, Bed Bath and Beyond is officially dead.  It’s almost sad to see what happened to this once iconic chain now sold for only $21 million.  The company is hosting a separate auction for its Buy Buy Baby chain.

Axios: Bed Bath names Overstock as stalking horse bidder

Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

https://www.rmwcommerce.com/
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