If you typed Overstock.com into your browser and ended up on Bed Bath & Beyond’s website, you might have assumed the company was gone. Or maybe you drove past a furniture store with “Overstock” in the name running a going-out-of-business sale and thought the same thing. Neither of those situations means what it looks like at first glance.
The full picture involves a corporate rebrand, a brand acquisition, a name revival, and a completely separate furniture chain that actually is closing. Here’s a clear breakdown of what happened and where things stand right now.
Overstock.com and Overstock Furniture Stores Are Not the Same Company
This is the most important thing to understand before anything else: “Overstock” is a generic retail term. Multiple unrelated businesses use it in their names, and that’s where most of the confusion starts.
Overstock.com is an online discount retailer. It’s owned by a company called Beyond, Inc. and sells home goods, furniture, rugs, and similar products through its website.
Overstock Furniture & Mattress is a completely separate brick-and-mortar chain. It has no corporate connection to Overstock.com. When local news stories or Facebook posts mention “Overstock” going out of business with liquidation sales, they’re almost always referring to this furniture chain — not the website.
News about one does not reflect the other. Keeping that distinction clear makes everything else easier to follow.
What Overstock.com Did in 2023 — and Why It Confused Everyone
In mid-2023, Overstock.com made a move that genuinely looked strange from the outside. The company purchased the Bed Bath & Beyond brand out of bankruptcy. Then it renamed its own consumer website to BedBathandBeyond.com and rebranded its app to match.
The parent company also changed its own corporate name from Overstock.com, Inc. to Beyond, Inc.
So if you typed Overstock.com into your browser during that period, you got redirected to BedBathandBeyond.com. The Overstock name was just gone from the consumer-facing side. Headlines at the time summed it up as “Goodbye Overstock.com, hello Bed Bath & Beyond” — which was accurate, but easy to misread as a shutdown.
It wasn’t a shutdown. The same company was still running, still selling home goods, still processing orders. It had just swapped names. Reddit threads from that period are full of users asking whether Overstock had closed, when in reality they were simply being redirected to the same business operating under a new brand.
Think of it like a restaurant that changes its name and updates its sign. The kitchen is still running. The staff is still there. You just need to know the new name on the door.
Overstock.com Came Back in 2024
About a year after dropping the Overstock name, Beyond, Inc. brought it back. In July 2024, Overstock.com was relaunched as a separate, active website. CNN Business described it as “back from the dead.”
The revived Overstock.com has a specific focus: clearance and liquidation. The site features indoor and outdoor furniture, home improvement tools, rugs, jewelry, and similar products — all positioned around discounts and deals.
BedBathandBeyond.com kept running separately. That site targets a different kind of shopper — people looking for mainstream home goods, wedding registries, bedding, and kitchen items.
So now both sites operate at the same time, under the same parent company (Beyond, Inc.), but with different purposes. Overstock.com is the bargain-hunter destination. BedBathandBeyond.com is the more traditional home goods store.
The reason for reviving Overstock.com makes practical sense. The name still carries strong recognition among deal-seekers. Rather than let that go entirely, Beyond, Inc. chose to use both brands side by side, each serving a different segment of shoppers.
Overstock Furniture & Mattress Is Actually Closing — Here’s What That Means
Now for the closures that are real. Overstock Furniture & Mattress, the physical retail chain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2025. After failing to find a buyer, the company announced going-out-of-business sales across all its locations.
One example is the store at Sunset Mall in San Angelo, Texas. That location had been open for less than seven months before announcing its closure. Local news covered it as part of a broader pattern of the chain shutting down entirely.
This is a genuine going-out-of-business situation — not a rebrand, not a corporate restructuring. When a retailer is in this position, a few things matter for shoppers:
- Return policies may be restricted or eliminated. Liquidating retailers often stop accepting returns once sales begin.
- Warranties can become uncertain. If the company closes completely, manufacturer warranties may still apply, but store-backed warranties may not be honored.
- Prices are usually genuinely discounted, but read the fine print before buying anything large or expensive.
- Gift cards should be used quickly if you have them. Once a company liquidates, redemption becomes difficult or impossible.
Again — this has nothing to do with Overstock.com or Beyond, Inc. It’s a separate company that shares a generic word in its name.
How to Tell the Difference Going Forward
It’s reasonable to be confused. The timeline of events stacked up in a way that made things look worse than they were:
- Bed Bath & Beyond’s physical stores went bankrupt and closed.
- Overstock.com bought the Bed Bath & Beyond brand and renamed its website.
- Overstock.com effectively disappeared from view for about a year.
- Local “Overstock Furniture” stores started running going-out-of-business sales.
- Overstock.com came back online in 2024 under its original name.
Each of those events happened independently. They just happened close together in time, which made the whole picture look like one company collapsing when it was actually a series of separate situations.
If you want to verify who you’re dealing with when shopping online, check the domain name. Overstock.com and BedBathandBeyond.com are both active and both owned by Beyond, Inc. If you’re at a physical store with “Overstock” in the name, that’s a different business entirely.
For more context on how retail businesses evolve, merge, and rebrand — and what that means for consumers — The Business Marker covers these kinds of stories in plain language.
What This Means If You’re a Current or Potential Customer
If you have an existing order through Overstock.com or BedBathandBeyond.com, your purchase is not at risk simply because of the name changes. The underlying business kept operating throughout the rebranding period. There’s no public evidence of customers losing orders or having contracts voided during the transition.
If you’re shopping on either site today, both are active and functional. Overstock.com is worth checking if you want clearance pricing on furniture or home goods. BedBathandBeyond.com makes more sense if you’re shopping for specific mainstream home products or setting up a registry.
If you’re near a physical Overstock Furniture & Mattress store that’s running liquidation sales, understand what you’re walking into. Deals may be real, but protections that normally come with a retail purchase — easy returns, active warranties, responsive customer service — may not be.
The Short Answer
Overstock.com did not go out of business. It rebranded to Bed Bath & Beyond for about a year, then relaunched as Overstock.com in 2024 with a focus on clearance and liquidation. Both websites now operate under Beyond, Inc.
The company that is actually closing is Overstock Furniture & Mattress — a separate brick-and-mortar chain with no connection to Overstock.com. It filed for Chapter 11 in late 2025 and began shutting down all its stores.
The confusion is understandable given everything that happened in quick succession. But the online retailer you may have used for years is still running. It just went through an unusual stretch of corporate identity changes before settling back into a name most shoppers already recognized.
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