A POPULAR mattress retailer is closing its only store in a city, following the lead of Forever 21 and Express.
As the Casper Sleep Shop prepares to shut down the shopping mall location in just days, shoppers are being alerted with an ominous sign.
With both an online and brick-and-mortar presence, Casper Sleep is a major retailer of sleep products such as mattresses, pillows, and sheets.
One of the company’s physical stores, however, will soon shut down for good.
The Casper Sleep Shop located in Kansas City, Missouri will close on January 22.
“We’re saying goodnight to this store,” reads a sign hanging in the store’s window.
Shoppers will have to turn to Casper Sleep’s online shop or other mattress retailers, as the Country Club Plaza store was the only Casper Sleep Shop in the metro area.
Casper Sleep isn’t the only retailer exiting the shopping center.
Multiple other shops recently shuttered, with at least nine restaurants and stores closing last year.
On the list include Forever 21, Express, Strang Chef Collectives, Parachute, one of Messenger Coffee Co.’s locations, Chuy’s, Sweet Kiss Brigadeiro, Kindred, and Soft Surroundings.
The Country Club Plaza was purchased last July by HP Village Partners, a group of investors.
One of the investors, Ray Washburne, outlined plans for the shopping center back in October.
He shared that the group intended to improve its security, make cosmetic changes, and add a boutique hotel, a new office tower, and more unique local restaurants and retailers rather than national chains.
Washburne noted that more walkways and restaurants and fewer “junk retail” spots would create “addition through subtraction.”
“In general, we’re going to clean it up and reposition the center as something that Kansas City will be proud of again,” Washburne told The Star.
The Country Club Plaza renovations are estimated to cost $100 million, although a timeline for construction has yet to be announced.
A SLEEP JOURNEY
Casper Sleep launched as an online-only retailer in 2014, focused on selling mattresses directly to consumers through its website.
Over time, Casper Sleep expanded to include physical retail locations, opening its first Casper Sleep Shop in 2018.
The store featured makeshift “houses” where shoppers could test out mattresses in private and gain a better idea of what it would be like to have the product in their own home.
The first physical Casper Sleep Shop also featured interactive exhibits and hosted sleep and wellness events.
Casper Sleep has since grown its brick-and-mortar presence, currently operating around 66 stores and one outlet in the US, with plans to open more in the future.
However, the majority of Casper Sleep’s sales and customer interactions still occur online.
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