Badcock Furniture Stores Closing for Good

A familiar furniture store that has been an anchor retailer in the Southeast for 120 years is closing its doors for good.

Badcock Home Furniture & More, which has stores in Hartwell, Toccoa, Commerce, Clarkesville, and Cleveland as well as other stores in northeast Georgia, will be closing by the end of October.

Badcock is owned by Texas-based Conn’s Home Plus which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to a report in USA Today. Conn’s has been in business for 134 years and is also closing all of its stores.

Badcock employees were notified last week that the stores would close.

The furniture retailer has been in operation in Toccoa and Hartwell for more than 50 years.

In 1904, Henry Stanhope Badcock founded the W.S. Badcock Corporation.

An immigrant from England, Henry founded the first Badcock store in Mulberry, FL.

During the Depression, his son Wogon took over the business and established the business model of buying on credit which was a forerunner of the way that most merchandise transactions are handled today.

Badcock announced on its website that stores will remain open until about Oct. 31 for liquidation sales.