Tuesday Morning

Tuesday Morning is a legacy U.S. off-price home retailer that focused on discounted brand-name housewares, bedding, bath, décor, seasonal goods, and gifts, sold in a simple, value-oriented store environment.[2] For many years, shoppers knew it as a place to find closeout deals on soft and hard home products at prices below traditional department and specialty stores.[2] As of December 2025, the chain’s store base has been significantly reduced or liquidated following multiple restructuring processes, leaving a much smaller physical footprint than at its peak.[2]

The company traces its roots to 1974, when founder Lloyd Ross began hosting limited-time, warehouse-style sales in Dallas, Texas, built around opportunistic buying of excess and discontinued merchandise.[2] That off-price, closeout-driven model resonated with value-conscious home shoppers and allowed Tuesday Morning to scale from a small regional operation into a national chain over the following decades.[2] A notable milestone came as the banner grew into a network of more than 700 stores across dozens of states, establishing itself as a familiar junior-box tenant in open-air centers.[2]

For landlords and developers, Tuesday Morning became a recognizable backfill option for second-generation mid-size boxes in community and neighborhood centers, often alongside grocery, value, and soft home anchors.[2] The brand typically occupied inline or end-cap space in open-air strip and power centers, which made it a flexible solution when other soft home or off-price users exited.[2] That role helped normalize the idea that off-price home concepts could stabilize mid-box space across suburban trade areas.[2]

In the 2010s and early 2020s, the business came under increasing pressure from e-commerce, shifting consumer preferences, and rising occupancy and supply chain costs, leading to multiple restructuring and bankruptcy processes.[2] Those actions focused on closing weaker stores, renegotiating leases, and monetizing assets, which moved the brand from an expansion posture to one of portfolio triage and ultimately large-scale store rationalization.[2] The result was a meaningful amount of second-generation junior-box inventory returning to the market, creating both disruption and backfill opportunities for owners of open-air centers.[2]

Over roughly the last five years, Tuesday Morning’s story has been less about new market growth and more about unwinding an overextended footprint and trying to preserve a core, profitable set of locations.[2] The chain has not pursued active new-store expansion and has instead focused on restructuring its business, returning large portions of its space to landlords and dramatically shrinking its presence.[2] For brokers, landlords, and developers, the brand now stands as a case study in how a once-scaled off-price home chain can shift from a long-term, mid-box staple to a source of released space when capital structure and merchandising no longer keep pace with modern retail fundamentals.[2]