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1 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Bed Bath & Beyond Canada’s new owner is hoping to use online shopping to wake up the dormant brand before it makes a brick-and-mortar comeback.
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it → hop → comeback
Sleep Country Canada relaunched the home goods retailer Tuesday through an e-commerce website expected to precede stores opening next year.
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Canada → relaunche → stores
The online revival comes about a year after Sleep Country purchased the Canadian and U.K. rights to the Bed Bath & Beyond name and logos from Overstock.com.
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Country → come → Overstock.com
The online marketplace had picked up the trademarks in 2023, after Bed Bath & Beyond Canada filed for creditor protection and closed its stores amid “dramatic” declines in revenue.
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Bath → pick → revenue
The U.S. arm of the company followed suit a few months later.
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arm → follow → suit
The retailer’s new Canadian iteration aims to revive the most cherished elements of the brand’s past but also take a more curated approach befitting an evolving market with the rise of e-commerce, new competitors such as H&M Home and Simons, the loss of Hudson’s Bay and sluggish home sales.
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iteration → aim → Bay
“We feel the timing is right and we feel like the market is ready for what we are doing,” Bed Bath & Beyond Canada president Carol Deacon said.
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Deacon → feel → what
“There are endless options online ... and there’s also a lot of other physical retail where there’s some very distinct styles and designs, but we think there’s an opportunity to make sure there’s a bit more choice.”
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’s → be → retail
The new business will stock about 6,000 products in classic Bed Bath & Beyond categories like kitchen, decor, bedroom and bathroom, but also mix in trendier and domestic brands consumers are demanding.
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consumers → stock → brands
That means shoppers will find KitchenAid, Umbra and Calvin Klein products alongside merchandise from Lacoste, Smeg and Sleep Country affiliates Endy, Bloom, Simba, and Silk and Snow.
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shoppers → mean → affiliates
While many parts of the Bed Bath & Beyond Canada business won’t dramatically change, two areas are being revamped significantly: furniture and baby.
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areas → change → business
The company is paring back on furniture, at least initially, because there’s a lot of competitors out there and it’s a category that is difficult for shipping, Deacon said.
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Deacon → par → shipping
With baby, it wants to focus more narrowly on products consumers could use to prepare their home for an infant rather than on everything tots would need.
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tots → want → everything
“For us to come up with an offering across the home that we really were proud and comfortable with, we just went a bit narrower in some areas, but we know we will be expanding over time,” Deacon said.
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Deacon → come → time
That expansion will also eventually bring back the brick-and-mortar stores most customers remember Bed Bath & Beyond for.
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customers → bring → Bath
The brand is still working out its store strategy but is on track to open a first location in late 2027, she said.
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she → work → 2027
When it faltered in 2023, the company had 54 Bed Bath & Beyond stores and 11 BuyBuy Baby locations.
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company → falter → stores
Deacon signalled that the brand is unlikely to have the same kind of store count or hulking properties it once did.
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it → signal → count
“It will likely be a lot more focused than it was historically for Bed Bath & Beyond in terms of footprint and store size,” she said.
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she → say → footprint
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 29, 2026.
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report → publish → Press
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