HomeGoods, an anchor of the Oakdale Mall, will be shutting down its Tewksbury location by the end of the month and relocating to Westford.
On Friday, shoppers were greeted with a huge sign announcing that the store was moving and a 25 percent off sale on all merchandise. HomeGoods specializes in home furnishings and decor.
Friday afternoon, company officials confirmed that the Tewksbury store at 1900 Main St. will be re-locating to Westford, alongside a new Marshalls. Both stores are owned by parent company TJX Companies.
According to Doreen Thompson, vice president, Corporate Communications for TJX, the Tewksbury location will close no later than Feb. 1.
"We expect the store to re-open as part of a Marshalls and HomeGoods combination store on March 21, 2013," said Thompson. "The new store will be located in the Cornerstone Square plaza in Westford, at the corner of Boston Road and Littleton Road."
Thompson did not give any indication that the Tewksbury HomeGoods was underperforming. Rather, she said the decision to relocate was part of a shift in corporate "real estate strategies."
"We are always assessing and reviewing our real estate strategies and our decision to relocate this store reflects that thinking," she said. "We are grateful for the patronage of our HomeGoods customers and believe they will continue to find great values in our new Westford location."
The Tewksbury Homegoods was extremely busy on Friday. Word of the closure began to trickle out through social media and local shoppers flocked to the store looking for bargains.
CM9
5:22 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
?!?! Don't take our Home Goods away! Get your own Westford!
>:-(
Melissa Gleaton
5:29 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
bye bye business... WHY aren't stores doing well here? WHY don't they want to come/stay here???
Janellen27
11:14 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
1) Because we don't have enough money to shop for unnecessary things; can't redecorate our homes every season;
2) Because fighting our way down Rt. 38 is a pain in the ass, especially from another town.
3) Because I spoke with a woman shopping at our Home Goods tonight and in the middle of the conversation she suddenly asked, "Well, what town am I in?' I told her and asked what town she was from: "Andover". There's a lot of information embedded in that story, Melissa. . . . sad.
4) Look what happened to Sears Essentials: They tried to give us something a little better than K-Mart and we wouldn't buy there; we wanted our old K-Mart junk back, so they gave it to us. Also sad.
5) Remember, we have a Wal-Mart, where we can get anything that HomeGoods had, just cheaper and not as nice.
The only good thing to come out of this is our Marshall's will be getting HomeGoods' foot traffic again.
Kelly Joyce
5:34 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Sigh. Yet another empty building in Tewksbury. So frustrating.
Patty
5:42 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Maybe it's time for our selectmen to speak to those in Wilmington to learn how to attract and keep businesses.
Tewksbury2001
8:29 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Such as? What does Wilmington have that is so great
Cecil Moore
11:44 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
A balanced budget, operating in the black, and no debt.
denise
5:53 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Saw the sign today...that is too bad, that was a great store, never left empty handed...Hope it doesnt stay empty for long!
TomH
5:58 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
I suspect that Market Basket will redo that plaza and make the grocery store bigger
Janellen27
11:16 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Probably not! They made that store much larger just a few years ago, remember? When they redid the plaza and put HomeGoods in there? We have one full aisle of soda and one full aisle of chips. What more could we want?
BILL REBAS
6:01 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
call president obama tell him to get on the ball
Jim Wentworth
6:17 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
This is actually not a Tewksbury issue rather a shift in the corporate strategy at TJX, the parent company of Marshalls and HomeGoods. They have found that customers of Marshalls are also customers of HomeGoods. Therefore, putting them in the same plaza increases the opportunity of sales in both stores from 1 customer. There wasn't room in Oakdale for a Marshalls and there wasn't room in Stadium Plaza in North Tewksbury for the HomeGoods. I'm sure with that great location as an anchor store in Oakdale, it won't take long to fill that spot.
malcolm nichols
3:27 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
So which flavor of Koolaid were you given. I find this somewhat hard to swallow. No box shore can really thrive this far from a highway.
Richard Menard
2:29 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Are they looking to relocate their TJMaxx down the street too? How about their store in Woburn? Headed out of town also? Seems to me that maybe the EDC should be bending over backwards to work to get them some space if they need to expand. Anyone approach the owner of the Rite-aide/blockbuster site? Long term lease could entice them to build out perhaps?
Janellen27
11:18 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
It's "a Tewksbury issue" in that HomeGoods and its entire conglomerate want combo stores right off hiways in towns with more money.
I cannot imagine what kind of a store will be good for that spot.
Janellen27
11:20 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
TO Malcomn Nichols: The man told you the truth; that is the story. No kool-aide involved.
Janellen27
11:40 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
RICHARD MENARD: The store in Woburn Mall is already a combo store: Home Goods & TJ's under one roof.
malcolm nichols
7:58 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
Janellen, the question is not whether someone can copy a story. It is whether "we" believe it or not. The Koolaid he is selling/drinking I find hard to believe. I believe what Jim Wentworth is saying/repeating has an intentional and incorrect spin.
Janellen27
4:20 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
malcolm nichols: Prcisely what part(s) of Wentworth's explanation do you think is "kool-aide"?
When I want to know something, frequently I will go right to the source, rather than waste energy in endless speculation. Not only is Wentworth's story the same story I got from Management, but it's as clear as the nose on your face to begin with. No research or second guessing really necessary! I'm curious as to why you find it so unbelievable!
Joe Bill
7:10 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
That space could be used for a huge beer and cigarette outlet. I also envision a section of NASCAR apparel. It would be perfect for this town. Tewksbury has turned into Salisbury without the beach.
Gordon Pickguard
6:31 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Joe Bill,
Just love ya, always enjoy your posts.
D.James
9:18 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Tewksbury is like a black cloud for businesses... Ridiculous
Joe Bill
9:23 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I also envision a tattoo parlor Along with the beer and cigarette store
jim t
2:50 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
Another gem from you Bill ... get a grip ! Your in Somerville with trees and Andovers tax rate. Thank your past board of selectman J .S .for one, for putting the whole town on sewage when less than 25% needed to be. You live in a town full of beer drinking, smoking NASCAR fans , if you dont like them move !
Tewksbury Mom
10:17 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Too bad this is one of my favorite stores... It was perfect for checking all those great home items!! I really hope this lot doesn't stay empty like the rite aide...whata waste! This town needs more quality businesses- what about a trader joes ?? No more 1$ stores or salons please...
Jolene MacKinnon
2:14 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I agree completely! !!!
Toby Sedgwick
11:25 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Just back from getting some bargains at HomeGoods. It's busy there today! I think people will really miss having this sort of store in town.
billvill
11:30 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Something tells me that Market Basket might have a bit of an issue with a Trader Joe's opening in the same plaza.
Cecil Moore
11:51 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Billvill, I don't think your information is correct. A large part of Market Basket's business is property management. They own the Oakdale Mall and hold the lease for Home Goods. I don't think they would be extending leases to a grocery competitor nor do I think it is in Trader Joe's business strategy to go head to head in a direct competition. Please tell us where your information came from?
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Ginger 's Mom
12:04 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
There goes my weekly therapy
MammaMia
10:13 am on Thursday, January 17, 2013
Mine too!!! :(
denise
12:22 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
At first i thought of Trader Joes also...but not right next to Market Basket...Although the parking is horrible at Oakdale, I would rather head to wilmington...Market Basket, and hit a couple of other stores as well.
Janellen27
11:22 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
This community is not a Trader Joe's community, sad to say, nor Whole Foods, nor anything other than Market Basket.
Fat Billy
1:57 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
We will miss u Home Goods but at least all the kids will be able to hang out in the back part of the parking lot near main street without getting kicked out by management
Dave G.
6:20 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Maybe they got wind of the tax increase coming and sewer increase. Westford is cheaper to operate then Tewksbury.
Ray
12:57 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Dave G.
A lot of city's and towns are cheaper than Tewksbury. Tewksbury Suckers new company's with tax breaks and then slams all the residents and other businesses for the tax breaks given to the new guys. somebody has to pay for the towns loss...
Janellen27
2:15 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Yes, the business strategy is to combine Marshalls & Home Goods--the same way they combined Home Goods & TJX in Woburn Mall and Marshall's & Home Goods in Salem, NH. But, the truth is if the Tewksbury store were performing well, they wouldn't have yanked it in the first place.
Just like Sears' Essentials experiment to put a higher end, more contemporary, more desirable store in @ Stadium Plaza. I knew that wouldn't last long. W/in a couple of years, Buyers told them, "We want our old K-Mart junk back" , and that's what they got!
What I'm envisioning more Asian Take-Out, another Hair & Nail Salon, another Dollar Store--maybe Family Dollar, we don't have that one yet--and Lord knows we need another tobacco store between the two that are at either end of the town. How 'bout a pizza/sub/roast beef Take-Out. We have Job Lots, how 'bout Big Lots, too. Sure, more junk. Yeah! How 'bout Building 19! How 'bout a big box computer store.
Can't see MB expanding. Did that already; we have enough space there.
P.S.: Westford is a lovely town. It's not a junk store town. They've managed their growth over 50 years carefully and aesthetically. There's a lot more education & money in Westford and the people w/the money have good taste, but appreciate a bargain. Remember, they would have no part of the Wal-Mart nor the Home Depot years ago, but Tewksbury said "sure".
Westford, "cheaper to operate???" Not cheaper to buy in, but a hell of a lot nicer to live in.
Janellen27
2:46 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
P.S. So, we have a MARSHALL'S at Stadium Plaza. Does that mean it leaves, too, and becomes the Marshall's/Home Goods combo in Westford? Wouldn't it have been great if they could have just fondd space at the Stadium Plaza to combine both stores under one roof there, right off the highway, still in our town. Would rather have seen that combo where the old Purity Supreme store was than the junk that is there now.
Joe Bill
12:51 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Why don't you move then?
Brooke
10:16 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Couldn't agree more with your second and third paragraphs.
(And I personally am hoping for a nail salon, a liquor store, and maybe even a pizza place)
Who Me?
7:07 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Is it not time to wonder? Why? Is it fair to question?
Town is 255-265 Million dollars in the red
Tax rate for residential is at the high end of the State average
Tax rate for commercial is at the high end of the State average
Tewksbury has the second highest water/sewer rates in the State of Massachusetts and ranks among the highest in the country...
Can you get your head around that?
And, shockingly, water and sewer rates will continue to spike to pay for our overspending.
Water and sewer rates affect business in a big way and should not be overlooked as a reason.
Janellen27
11:26 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Ahhh, you just gave me an idea: Why don't we appeal to our Governor to get all the other towns and cities in the state to bail us out the same way his friend Willy Lantigua did for $30million of every other citizen's money EXCEPT the ones who live in Lawrence!
Who Me?
8:36 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/20/power-to-tax-power-to-destroy/?page=all
Dave G.
9:17 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
How did we get into this hole? How do we get out of it?? We need to slow down spending. No more untile we get a handle on what we have done . Was it the sewer project that put us here?
halffull
9:57 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
I wouldn't be surprised if the Tewksbury Marshalls will also be a casualty to the Westford Marshals/Homegoods.
I was at Marshalls yesterday, the racks were visibly empty, with the whole store on clearance.
Janellen27
11:01 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
NO, Tewksbury Marshall's will be uneffected by this move. The Marshall's in Westford is a brand new, just built store.
Marshall's at the Junction is doing fine--because it's at the junction.
Home Goods was not doing fine, sliding downhill all the way, mainly because who wants to come to this town to go to a store via Rt. 38 from any of the highways (Rts. 3, 495, 93, 128): The Corporation wanted a combo store right off the highway in a town that has more money. Period. Normal business strategy. They couldn't achieve that at Stadium Plaza, so onward down the road they go.
TONY D
1:33 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2013
Janellen27 - Are you on the "Board" of TJX Companies. You seem to know exactly what is going on!!
brian
1:00 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Ya Marshall's is empty I agree
Janellen27
11:27 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Changing of the seasons. New stuff coming in.
Fat Billy
1:01 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
I head they were putting in a night club where homegoods was finally something to do in town
Patrick Rahilly
3:09 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Home goods is the new location for my medical marijuana emporium. To make people feel at home, i will decorate it with tewksbury home goods items.
Fat Billy
5:10 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Thank you so much Patrick people will love it :)
Fat Billy
6:43 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
It's not like people don't smoke weed at homegoods anyways I myself have smoke weed with the group of kids who hangout in the parkinglot many times
Janellen27
11:29 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Sadada Tea Bags says: "Admit your mistakes; don't brag about them."
Janellen27
11:06 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Home Goods' shelves were practically empty tonight. They're staying until the end of the month, but they will be absolutely nothing left by the end of the week.
I've heard rumors of what's going in that space, but I can tell you this: whatever goes in won't be as nice as HomeGoods (and HomeGoods being at the lower end of the home furnishings stores spectrum, Crate & Barrell and Williams Sonoma, and the like being at the other.)
D.James
9:33 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
Guys,
Your all over reacting...I think we can all agree some awesome fish,roast beef,pizza, sub chinese food dumpster dive "restaurant" will go in there.... Joe Bil said it best we are Salisbury without the beach...
V.R.
10:07 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
I tend to do most of my shopping in Nashua, NH, i.e., Daniel Webster Hwy....Costco you know:) However, I needed to go further up north Nashua to Mother & Child, 650 Amherst St./Greystone Plaza. A great child/adult consignment shop w/new goods also...much NOT pregnancy/child. Gives a good return for donations in store credit only. Across the street I found *West Side Plaza, 34 North West Blvd. In this plaza: *HOME GOODS, TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Jo-Ann Fabrics, Pier 1, Big Lots... So lots of $$ saved in TAXES, but @ 20 miles north of Tewksbury, so more auto gas. The Home Goods store is large, good deals on art, lamps. As you know, Home Goods stores vary as to best goods. Home Goods in Danvers, Ma is best for furniture. However, I will sure miss HOME GOODS in Tewksbury!! Always a drop-in to see the deals. And bought quite a few:) $$$$$ ~ Sigh ~ (I am off now to see the Tewksbury Home Goods moving-out clearance !! :) TY
Shaun
11:57 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
I don't blame them for leaving for Westford. We've been looking at homes out there and hope to do the same soon.
TONY D
3:24 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2013
Certainly a much nicer Town but be careful their tax rate is higher than ours. Average home value - $444,000.00 - approximate tax - $7200.00.
Janellen27
8:00 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
TONY D: Why do you think Westford is a "much nicer Town"?
Amy
12:57 pm on Friday, January 25, 2013
Rumor has it Aubuchon Hardware is moving there, can you confirm this Bill?
Janellen27
5:22 pm on Friday, January 25, 2013
Not good. They've been serving the South end of town for many years while Tewksbury Hardware served the other. Home Depot didn't help business for either. Now, the folks in the South will have to travel to Oakdale; they may as well keep on driving to Home Depot.
Janellen27
5:24 pm on Friday, January 25, 2013
. . . or, more likely, just go across to O'Connor's in Billerica.