Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
March 19, 2020 06:25 pm

Tuft & Needle is firing staff and closing stores due to COVID-19





Tuft & Needle is closing retail stores and letting go of a portion of its staff due to the coronavirus pandemic. The buzzy direct-to-consumer mattress company had six retail locations in cities including Seattle, Scottsdale, and Raleigh. It says it hopes to rehire workers when stores are able to open.


“Today we had to make the difficult but necessary decision to part ways with a portion of our retail team and temporarily close our retail locations in light of COVID-19,” the company said in a statement emailed to The Verge. “Our goal is to rehire those employees when stores eventually reopen.”


Tuft & Needle is among the direct-to-consumer companies that flourished over the past eight years. The mattress company operates primarily online,...



Continue reading…




Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/19/21185840/tuft-needle-coronavirus-firing-retail-staff-closing-stores

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

The Verge

The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011

More About this Source Visit The Verge