Tuft & Needle is firing staff and closing stores due to COVID-19

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Tuft & Needle is closing retail stores and letting go of a portion of its staff due to the coronavirus pandemic. The buzzy direct-to-consumer mattress company had six retail locations in cities including Seattle, Scottsdale, and Raleigh. It says it hopes to rehire workers when stores are able to open.

“Today we had to make the difficult but necessary decision to part ways with a portion of our retail team and temporarily close our retail locations in light of COVID-19,” the company said in a statement emailed to The Verge. “Our goal is to rehire those employees when stores eventually reopen.”

Tuft & Needle is among the direct-to-consumer companies that flourished over the past eight years. The mattress company operates primarily online,...

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