Framingham-based HomeGoods is getting out of the net procuring enterprise after solely two years.
Final orders from prospects shall be taken immediately, the corporate mentioned in an e mail.
The website isn’t going away. HomeGoods.com will proceed to offer décor inspiration and tendencies for purchasers, mentioned Andrew Mastrangelo, a spokesman for TJX Cos., which additionally owns TJMaxx, Marshalls and Sierra.
“We’ve made the decision to focus our resources on our more than 900 brick-and-mortar stores across the United States,” he mentioned.
The firm boasts 25 places in Greater Boston. Its on-line retailer locator exhibits 4 places within the fast space together with Boston itself, Chelsea, Somerville and Cambridge, and dotting the panorama west towards Northborough; north to Salem, N.H.; and south to Marshfield.
Off-price manufacturers have been late to on-line procuring. The unpredictability of closeout merchandise and the portions accessible makes offprice retailing harder. Competitor Burlington makes use of its web site to advertise reductions however doesn’t promote on-line.
TJMaxx.com began promoting on-line in 2013 and Homegoods.com launched its e-commerce in the course of the pandemic in 2021.
The retailer, which promotes a treasure hunt expertise, with new items coming in frequently, desires prospects to enterprise to its shops or to buy its different manufacturers, which can keep their on-line enterprise, on-line at tjmaxx.com, marshalls.com and sierra.com, Mastrangelo mentioned.
HomeGoods continues to open new shops. Employees affected by the choice to shut the net enterprise are being provided jobs throughout the firm, Mastrangelo mentioned.
A model of this story first appeared within the Dallas Morning News. Herald reporter Flint McColgan contributed to this model.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”