At Home (Plano, Texas) opened three new stores in October, expanding its footprint to 258 locations in 40 states.
The new outposts are in St. Petersburg, Fla.; Fayetteville, Ga.; and East Northport, N.Y., the home retailer reported in a news release.
At Home, which calls itself “the Home Decor Superstore,” offers up to 45,000 items — including furniture, rugs, wall art and housewares to tabletop, patio and holiday decor — in stores averaging just over 100,000 square feet. Its offerings include collections from designers Ty Pennington, Grace Mitchell, Laila Ali and Tracey Boyd.
The chain has “a somewhat convoluted history,” Business of Home reported in an April 2021 profile of At Home:
“It was built on the bones of another big-box home chain, Garden Ridge, which featured giant stores – as large as 175,000 square feet – often in less-than-prime locations, scattered mostly throughout Texas and the rest of the Sun Belt. It crashed and burned, filed for bankruptcy in 2004, and teetered on the brink for years. Then, in 2014, it was revived with a new name, new investors, and a strategy that brought store sizes down (even though they still often measured more than 100,000 square feet).”