Bed Bath & Beyond reopens a number of Bay Area shops, with a bonus: Outdated coupons can be honored – The Mercury News

Several Bed Bath & Beyond shops are reopening within the Bay Area. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

By Caroline Petrow-Cohen | Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Bed Bath & Beyond is trying to stage a comeback because the decades-old firm reopens shops in partnership with the Container Store in 22 cities, together with a number of within the Bay Area.

To the delight of die-hard followers and coupon collectors, for a restricted time the brand new shops will settle for the chain’s blue and white coupons, irrespective of how outdated they’re.

Customers can use their expired coupons till July 13. The firm can be holding a contest to search out the oldest coupon on the market, with a prize of a house renovation value $100,000.

“For decades, our customers treated these coupons like treasure,” stated Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. President Amy Sullivan in an announcement Monday. “They tucked them into purses, filing cabinets, cookbooks and memory boxes because they believed they would be valuable someday. We think they were right.”

Bed Bath & Beyond, which sells house items together with towels and kitchen devices, filed for chapter in 2023 and shut down all its places. Following its chapter, Bed Bath & Beyond was purchased by Overstock.com, which has since rebranded to Beyond, Inc.

The firm introduced the primary section of its brick-and-mortar reopenings final week. In addition to shops in New York, Colorado, Illinois and different states, listed here are the places within the Bay Area:

• San Jose: 3080 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 1000
• Palo Alto: 500 Stanford Shopping Center
• Walnut Creek: 1100 Locust St.
• San Mateo: 3020 Bridgepointe Parkway
• Corte Madera: 219 Corte Madera Town Center
• San Francisco: 555 Ninth St.

Over the previous few years, social media customers lamented that they may not use their expired Bed Bath & Beyond coupons.

“Found my entire stash of Bed bath and beyond coupons today,” one Reddit person stated earlier this 12 months. “Sad I never got to use them.”

Another Reddit person stated they discovered a big stack of expired coupons two years in the past. “I know I should probably toss them out at this point, but they were fun to collect,” they wrote.

In 2025, Beyond, Inc.’s govt chairman Marcus Lemonis vowed he would by no means reopen shops in California as a result of “over-regulated, expensive” enterprise surroundings. He dominated out future retail shops within the state in an announcement posted on X final August.

Less than a 12 months later, nonetheless, the corporate introduced 12 deliberate storefronts within the Golden State, together with 5 in Southern California. The new shops, dubbed Bed Bath & Beyond + The Container Store, will provide house organizational merchandise in addition to mattress sheets, pillows and extra.

Gov. Gavin Newsom welcomed the retailer again to the state.

“With a thriving economy growing faster than all other developed nations, California always reaches out with an open hand — not a closed fist,” he posted on X in April.

The Container Store filed for chapter in 2024 and emerged from it in early 2025. Bed Bath & Beyond acquired the Container Store in April for about $150 million in inventory and convertible notes, a part of the corporate’s try at a comeback after its personal chapter.

“Our customers don’t think about their homes in categories,” Lemonis stated in an announcement. “By bringing Bed Bath & Beyond and The Container Store together, we’re creating a destination where customers can buy products, organize their spaces, design custom solutions and access services all under one roof.”