Off The Menu: Restaurant service pivots from businesses to homes
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Restaurant delivery has become an integral part of the contemporary dining experience, and Alchemista, Boston-based food service innovator, is melding delivery with technology to facilitate the at-home enjoyment of restaurant food.
Founded in 2012 to provide chef-quality meals in upscale office settings, Alchemista suddenly found itself mostly without customers when lockdowns rolled out last March.
Alchemista has since pivoted to a program of high-tech food lockers it had previously developed for smaller clients, at the same time creating delivery partnerships with two Boston-area restaurateurs.
The company has been installing what it refers to “on-demand modular marketplaces” in the lobbies of luxury apartment buildings. Ten of these installations, which the company has branded as “The Locket,” were in place across greater Boston as of March, with more rolling out weekly.
Bed Bath & Beyond stores closing list
The following 43 stores are the latest Bed Bath & Beyond stores slated to close by the end of February 2021. Approximately 200 stores will close over the next two years.
Arkansas Bed Bath & Beyond closing store
Conway: 1272 South Amity Road
Arizona Bed Bath & Beyond closure
Peoria: 24760 N. Lake Pleasant Parkway
California Bed Bath & Beyond closing stores
El Cerrito: 6000 El Cerrito Plaza
Gilroy: 6725 Camino Arroyo
Northridge: 8959 Tampa Ave.
San Mateo: 2280 Bridgepoint Parkway
Simi Valley: 2631 Tapo Canyon Road
Turlock: 2851 Countryside Drive
Colorado Bed Bath & Beyond store closures
Boulder: 1741 28th St.
Lone Tree: Meadows Marketplace, 8467 South Yosemite
Florida Bed Bath & Beyond store closings
Holyoke Bed Bath & Beyond closing
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
HOLYOKE Bed Bath & Beyond, a chain retailer of housewares, will close its store in the Holyoke Crossing shopping plaza in February, according to staffers.
The store has already started closeout sales and all sales at the location are now final. Bed Bath & Beyond locations in Enfield, Connecticut, and Hadley will remain, the company said.
The Holyoke Crossing location opened in the fall of 1996 when the plaza on Whiting Farms Road near the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside was new.
But those were different days for home goods retailers now struggling to keep up with online competition from Amazon and Massachusetts-based Wayfair.