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LL Flooring files for bankruptcy and will close 94 stores. Here’s where they are.
LL Flooring, a specialty flooring company formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, is holding closing sales at 94 retail locations across the U.S. after it filed Sunday for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware.
The company is currently in negotiations with multiple parties to sell its business, LL Flooring said in the statement.
While operating under the Lumber Liquidators brand name, the company was in the spotlight after a “60 Minutes” report found some its flooring contained dangerous levels of formaldehyde. In 2019, it agreed to pay $33 million in fines for misleading investors about levels of the chemical in its Chinese-made laminate flooring.
In announcing the bankruptcy, LL Flooring blamed “several macroeconomic and operational challenges” for putting a strain on its business.
“After comprehensive efforts to enhance our liquidity position in a challenging macro environment, a determination was made that initiating this Chapter 11 process is the best path forward for the company,” LL Flooring CEO Charles Tyson said in the statement.
The bankruptcy will also provide LL Flooring with the time and flexibility to close some of its stores while also pursuing the sale of the rest of the business, he added.
The provider of hard and soft flooring alternatives said it is continuing to serve customers at more than 300 retail stores across the U.S. It also remains open for business online.
LL Flooring said it is shuttering 94 of store locations at which it is currently hosting “closing sales.” The company said its financial advisors helped determine which stores it made sense to close and which to keep open. The more than 90 locations that will close their doors are still open for business in the interim, though.
Here’s a list of LL Flooring stores that are closing by state:
Alabama
Arizona
- Mesa, AZ
- Phoenix, AZ
- Prescott Valley, AZ
California
- Bakersfield, CA
- Burlingame, CA
- Elk Grove, CA
- Fairfield, CA
- Fresno, CA
- Rancho Cucamonga, CA
- Salinas, CA
- S. San Diego, CA
- Santee, CA
- Torrance, CA
- Visalia, CA
Colorado
- Longmont, CO
- Loveland, CO
- Thornton, CO
Connecticut
- Milford, CT
- North Haven, CT
- Norwalk, CT
- Waterbury, CT
Florida
- Clearwater, FL
- Florida City, FL
- Gainsville, FL
- St. Augustine, FL
- Tampa, FL
Georgia
Illinois
- Bloomington, IL
- Champaign, IL
- Crystal Lake, IL
- E Peoria, IL
- Geneva, IL
- Mundelein, IL
- South Elgin, IL
Indiana
- Greenwood, IN
- Lafayette, IN
- Muncie, IN
Iowa
Louisiana
- Broussard, LA
- Lake Charles, LA
Massachusetts
- Framingham, MA
- Leominster, MA
Maryland
- Edgewood, MD
- Lutherville, MD
Michigan
- Battle Creek, MI
- Kentwood, MI
Minnesota
- Chanhassen, MN
- Rochester, MN
- St. Cloud, MN
Mississippi
Missouri
- Chesterfield, MO
- Joplin, MO
- N. Kansas City, MO
Nevada
New Jersey
- Mount Holly, NJ
- Woodbridge, NJ
- Woodbury, NJ
New York
- Medford, NY
- New Hartford, NY
- Staten Island, NY
- Westbury, NY
North Carolina
Ohio
- SE Cincinnati, OH
- W. Columbus, OH
- Reynoldsburg, OH
- Solon, OH
Oregon
Pennsylvania
- Exton, PA
- Fairless Hills, PA
- Philadelphia, PA
Tennessee
- Clarksville, TN
- Franklin, TN
- Jackson, TN
Texas
- Abilene, TX
- Arlington, TX
- College Station, TX
- Denton, TX
- Fort Worth, TX
- Houston Galleria, TX
- Katy, TX
- Killeen, TX
- McAllen, TX
- S. San Antonio, TX
- Sherman, TX
Utah
Virginia
Washinton
- Bellingham, WA
- Olympia, WA
- Yakima, WA
West Virginia
- Beckley, WV
- Parkersburg, WV
Wisconsin
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McDonald’s investing $100 million to lure customers back to the fast food giant after E. coli outbreak
McDonald’s is investing $100 million to bring customers back to stores after an outbreak of E. coli food poisoning tied to onions on the fast-food giant’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers.
The investments include $65 million that will go directly to the hardest-hit franchises, the company said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that slivered onions on the Quarter Pounders were the likely source of the E. coli. Taylor Farms in California recalled onions potentially linked to the outbreak.
The E. coli outbreak has sickened 104 people in 14 states, federal health officials said in an update on Wednesday.
At least 34 people have been hospitalized, and four developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a serious condition that can cause kidney failure. An 88-year-old man who resided in Grand Junction, Colorado, died, as previously reported. The illnesses began at the end of September, and the most recent onset of illness occurred as of Oct. 21, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The Food and Drug Administration has said that “there does not appear to be a continued food safety concern related to this outbreak at McDonald’s restaurants.”
However, the outbreak hurt the company’s sales.
Quarter Pounders were removed from menus in several states in the early days of the outbreak.
In a statement Wednesday obtained by CBS News, McDonald’s said it had found an “alternate supplier” for the approximately 900 restaurants that had temporarily stopped serving Quarter Pounders with slivered onions.
“Over the past week, these restaurants resumed the sale of Quarter Pounder burgers with slivered onions,” McDonald’s said.
CBS News reached out to McDonald’s on Saturday for a statement regarding the reported investment.
Health officials said Saturday they have confirmed the first U.S. case of a new form of mpox that was first seen in eastern Congo.
The person had traveled to eastern Africa and was treated in Northern California upon return, according to the California Department of Public Health. Symptoms are improving and the risk to the public is low.
Mpox is a rare disease caused by infection with a virus that’s in the same family as the one that causes smallpox. It is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals.
Earlier this year, scientists reported the emergence of a new form of mpox in Africa that was spread through close contact including through sex.
More than 3,100 confirmed cases have been reported just since late September, according to the World Health Organization. The vast majority of them have been in three African countries – Burundi, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Since then, cases of travelers with the new mpox form have been reported in Germany, India, Kenya, Sweden, Thailand, Zimbabwe, and the United Kingdom.
Health officials earlier this month said the situation in Congo appears to be stabilizing. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated Congo needs at least 3 million mpox vaccines to stop the spread, and another 7 million vaccines for the rest of Africa.
The current outbreak is different from the 2022 global outbreak of mpox where gay and bisexual men made up the vast majority of cases.
