Bed Bath & Beyond: The Slow Death Everyone Saw Coming

Bed Bath & Beyond was once worth seventeen billion dollars; by 2023 its stock was cancelled down to zero and more than three hundred and sixty stores stood locked and empty. This documentary follows the sixteen-year run of CEO Steven Temares, who spent an estimated eleven point eight billion dollars on stock buybacks instead of building the e-commerce and distribution systems that Amazon and Wayfair were building at the same time. It tracks the giant blue twenty-percent coupon that quietly became the company's entire business model, the 2019 activist investor letter that forced Temares out, Mark Tritton's failed private-label overhaul brought in from Target, the inventory collapse that followed, and the 2022 meme-stock spike tied to Ryan Cohen's stake and sale, the shareholder lawsuits that followed, and CFO Gustavo Arnal's death. It ends with the April 2023 bankruptcy filing and the twenty-one point five million dollar sale of the name itself to Overstock. The video lays out, filing by filing and quarter by quarter, who made each decision along the way, and who was still cashing out while the company kept warning everyone it was dying. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:28 Beyond The Beginning 2:14 The Buyback Machine 4:46 The Blue Coupon 7:34 Tritton's Gamble 10:04 The Meme Spike 13:12 The Final Collapse 16:00 The Bill SOURCES U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey — Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Chapter 11 petition (April 2023) SEC — Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Schedule 13D filing by RC Ventures LLC (March 2022) SEC — Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Form 4, Ryan Cohen sale disclosure (August 2022) Reuters — "Bed Bath & Beyond CFO Gustavo Arnal dies after fall from Manhattan high-rise" (September 2022) The Wall Street Journal — "Bed Bath & Beyond's Private-Label Push Leaves Shelves Empty" (2022) Which decision do you think actually killed Bed Bath & Beyond: the eleven point eight billion in buybacks, or killing the twenty-percent coupon? All footage, photos and documents in the video are real. The thumbnail is an illustration. Subscribe for a new brand autopsy every week:    / @deadbrandswalkingtv   #BusinessDocumentary #CorporateCollapse #RetailHistory