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Ulta Beauty To Close 19 Stores
Ulta Beauty announced plans to close 19 stores this year.
Shops slated to get the ax have not been announced, but the beauty supplies chain has shops across New Jersey that could be impacted.
Ulta Beauty top officials blamed COVID-19’s economic disruption as the reason for the cuts.
Even while it closes some stores, Ulta Beauty has plans to open 30 more. Efforts will be made to transfer employees from closed shops to new or already existing ones, the company said in a press release.
In New Jersey, Ulta has stores in Edgewater, Clifton, Maywood, Garfield, Cedar Knolls, Wayne, Montvale, L…
Owner's Death Puts Petland Out Of Business
Petland Discounts will close its 10 New Jersey stores, costing nearly 300 workers their jobs, following the death of the company's owner and founder.
Neil Padron, who was 74 when he succumbed to bladder cancer last month, launched the business in September 1965 in Queens, N.Y. -- originally as a tropical fish store.
Petland Discounts at its peak had 118 locations across the tri-state area.
All existing locations are expected to close, including 10 in New Jersey: Westwood, Paterson, Jersey City, West New York, North Bergen, Bayonne, Elizabeth, Orange and Irvington.
Petland filed…