Furniture store in Asheboro to close

ASHEBORO – The Badcock Home Furniture & More store at 837 East Dixie Drive in Asheboro is closing as the company is going out of business.

There were more than 380 stores in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi.

Other stores in the region are located in High Point, Greensboro, Burlington, Sanford, Winston-Salem and Durham.

Going-out-of-business sales are including discounts of up to 50 percent.

The closures come in association to bankruptcy filed by the Texas-based parent company, Conn’s, which had bought Badcock last year. Conn’s stores are also closing.

That’s a total of more than 550 store closings. Reports say that impacts 3,800 employees at the full-time level and dozens more at part-time levels.

Conn’s has 12 stores in North Carolina, including in Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Burlington.