Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. will close approximately 150 lower-producing stores and reduce its corporate and supply chain workforce by 20% as it brings in new financing to improve its balance sheet and adjusts its inventory strategy and leadership team to drive engagement.
"We are embracing a straightforward, back-to-basics philosophy that focuses on better serving our customers, driving growth, and delivering business returns,” said Sue Gove, Bed, Bath & Beyond (Nasdaq: BBBY) director and interim…
Greg Gleicher went from Washington University baseball player to New York City real estate executive. Now he’s returning to St. Louis with a $1.2B plan to transform a long-desolate stretch on the edge of downtown. Some local leaders believe that his role as an outsider with a big idea is the key to making it work.
St. Louis Community College’s annual State of the St. Louis Workforce Report, published Wednesday, showed a growing amount of roles locally that are taking employers on average 40 days to hire a new employee. Here are the toughest ones to fill.
When the new dean of the University of Missouri-St. Louis' School of College of Optometry reports for work Thursday, she'll be crossing a barrier.
Dr. Keshia Elder will be the nation's first Black female dean of optometry, university officials said.
She comes to UMSL from her previous roles as director of diversity, equity and inclusion and director of externships at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry. Elder's new post marks a return to UMSL; she had held the post of associate…
Longtime St. Louis news anchor Dick Ford died Tuesday at the age of 88.
Ford’s journalism career began in 1951 in his hometown of Pittsburgh. He worked for KMOX-TV in 1965 and then started working at KSD-TV in 1969. He left KSDK in 1992 and spent the rest of his career anchoring the news at KTVI.
He was a part of the very successful “Newsbeat” program with John Auble and told KSDK's Kay Quinn last December:
"I'm 88 years old now. I've been retired for 16 years and people still when I run…
St. Louis Lambert International Airport has released a multi-year plan for how it could maintain operations while a new terminal is built, with one suggestion that airlines could move into a Terminal 1 concourse that is currently closed.
Over the past three years, sales of homes costing at least $1 million more than doubled, but buyers in that price range – with exceptions in a couple of major cities – are getting less square footage for their investment. Here's how St. Louis shakes out.
A new St. Louis-based startup focused on using data to speed up medical discoveries said Tuesday it has raised $6 million from investors to launch operations. It is teaming up with BJC HealthCare and Washington School of Medicine, which have both invested in the startup.
Every car Luke Reynolds is aware of that’s been stolen this year in Soulard has been a Hyundai or a Kia.
In all, more than 1,800 of them have been stolen citywide so far this year, a 1,000% increase compared with the same time frame last year.
Mayor Tishaura Jones’ administration has sent a demand letter to the automakers insisting they do something to stop the epidemic of thefts involving some makes and models of their cars or face a lawsuit, but Reynolds says that’s not enough.
“I’d…
In an apparent about-face, Katherine Pinner plans to remain in the race to challenge incumbent St. Louis County Executive Sam Page this November.
Last week, St. Louis County Republican party officials claimed Pinner would be dropping out of the race. The political newcomer was unknown to party officials and had published conspiracy theories on her personal website.
In an updated blog post published Tuesday morning, Pinner wrote, "I am affirming my candidacy for the office of Saint Louis County…
Another Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster recovery center in the St. Louis area will open Tuesday to help people affected by flash flooding in late July, the second in less than a week.
On Aug. 30, the center will open at the Urban League Empowerment Center at 9420 W Florissant Ave. to provide one-on-one assistance to flooding victims. The center will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week.
There are four other centers open in the St. Louis area. They are all open from…
The gold standard of farm-to-table is fresh produce that’s available 365 days a year, not dependent on weather and grown in a sustainable way. It would be even better if farm-to-table produce could fill the voids called food deserts and make a meaningful difference to people and their diets. This future isn’t a pipedream. It’s actually coming. And as this new standard for delivering produce and vegetables expands, we’re all going to benefit from it.
Today, lots of buzz words surround food…
A full-tuition fellowship program for graduate candidates at Washington University's Graduate School of Art and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design is permanently endowed, thanks to a big gift from a local family foundation.
The Sunset Hills-based bakery-cafe operator, known locally as Saint Louis Bread Co., says the move isn't about addressing labor concerns, but testing a new technology that makes the experience more efficient.
The senior health service startup, which earlier this year announced it raised more than $100 million from investors, has agreed to purchase an Austin, Texas-based therapy provider. It says the deal will nearly double its headcount and make it “one of the nation’s largest providers of therapy services for senior living communities.”
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