The beleaguered residence items chain made the submitting Sunday in U.S. District Court docket in New Jersey and stated that its retailer and web sites will stay open — for now. It listed estimated property and liabilities within the vary of $1 billion and $10 billion. The transfer comes after the corporate didn’t safe funds to remain afloat.

In a press release, the corporate based mostly in Union, New Jersey, stated it voluntarily made the submitting “to implement an orderly wind down of its companies whereas conducting a restricted advertising course of to solicit curiosity in a number of gross sales of some or all of its property.”

The agency stated its 360 Mattress Tub & Past and 120 Purchase Purchase Child shops and web sites will stay open and proceed serving prospects because it “begins its efforts to effectuate the closure of its retail places.”

The corporate stated it additionally intends to uphold commitments to prospects, staff and companions. The retailer stated it secured a dedication of roughly $240 million in financing from Sixth Road Specialty Lending, Inc. to permit it to maintain working throughout the chapter course of.

The submitting comes as the corporate’s shares have tumbled much more as hypothesis of an impending chapter submitting elevated. Its monetary efficiency has additionally deteriorated. In late March, it famous that preliminary outcomes confirmed anyplace from a 40% to 50% decline in gross sales at shops opened at the least a 12 months for the quarter ended Feb. 25.

The corporate additionally stated in a Securities and Trade Fee submitting in late March that it deliberate to promote $300 million price of shares to keep away from chapter submitting.

The house items retailer had been issuing a number of warnings a few potential chapter submitting since earlier this 12 months. In late January, it famous in a authorities submitting it was in default of its loans and didn’t have the funds to repay what it owes. The corporate had stated the default is forcing the corporate to take a look at numerous options together with restructuring its debt in chapter court docket.

Mattress Tub & Past warned on Jan. 5 that it was contemplating numerous choices together with submitting for chapter and stated that there was “substantial doubt” that it may keep in enterprise. Per week later, Mattress Tub & Past posted a 33% drop in gross sales and a widening loss for the fiscal third quarter, ended Nov. 26, in contrast with the year-ago interval. Gross sales at shops opened at the least a 12 months — a key indicator of an organization’s well being — dropped 32%.

Mattress Tub & Past’s not too long ago appointed president and CEO Sue Gove blamed the poor vacation efficiency on stock constraints and decreased credit score limits that resulted in shortages of merchandise on retailer cabinets.

Usually, struggling retailers file for chapter safety after the vacation procuring season as a result of they’ve a money cushion coming from the two-month gross sales interval. Up to now this 12 months, social gathering provides chain Get together Metropolis and David’s Bridal have been among the many retailers which have filed for Chapter 11.

Nonetheless, turning round Mattress Tub & Past has been tough amid rising competitors from discounters. The submitting additionally comes because the financial system is weakening, and buyers are tightening their purse strings.

The house items retailer had been making an attempt to show round its enterprise and slash prices after earlier administration’s new methods worsened a gross sales hunch. The corporate introduced in August it will shut about 150 of its namesake shops and slash its workforce by 20%. It additionally lined up greater than $500 million of latest financing.

Based in 1971, Mattress Tub & Past had for years loved its standing as a giant field retailer that provided an unlimited collection of sheets, towels and devices unmatched by division retailer rivals. It was among the many first to introduce buyers to lots of in the present day’s home items just like the air fryer or single-serve espresso maker, and its 15% to twenty% coupons had been ubiquitous.

However for the final decade or so, Mattress Tub & Past struggled with weak gross sales, largely due to its messy assortments and lagging on-line technique that made it arduous to compete with the likes of Goal and Walmart, each of which have spruced up their residence departments with larger high quality sheets and beddings. In the meantime, on-line gamers like Wayfair have lured prospects with reasonably priced and stylish furnishings and residential décor.

In late 2019, Mattress Tub & Past tapped Goal govt Mark Tritton to take the helm and switch round gross sales. Tritton shortly decreased coupons and began to introduce retailer label manufacturers on the expense of nationwide labels, a method that proved disastrous for the retailer.

And the pandemic, which occurred shortly after his arrival, compelled the retailer to briefly shut its shops. It was by no means ready to make use of the well being disaster to pivot to a profitable on-line technique as others had, analysts stated. And whereas many retailers had been grappling with provide chain points a 12 months in the past, Mattress Tub was among the many most weak, lacking lots of its 200 best-selling gadgets together with kitchen home equipment and private electronics, throughout the vacation 2021 season.

The retailer ousted Tritton in June 2022 after two back-to-back quarters of disastrous gross sales. In latest months, the corporate went again to its unique technique of specializing in nationwide manufacturers, as an alternative of pushing its personal retailer labels. However the firm has had a tough time having suppliers decide to delivering merchandise due to the retailer’s monetary woes. This previous vacation season, the shops had been lacking many key gadgets, and it misplaced many shoppers.

Mattress Tub & Past’s shares, which had been buying and selling at distressed ranges, have additionally been on a turbulent run. It made a monstrous run from $5.77 to $23.08 in slightly greater than two weeks in August. The buying and selling was paying homage to final 12 months’s meme-stock craze, when out-of-favor firms immediately grew to become darlings of smaller-pocketed traders.

However the inventory fell again to Earth after Ryan Cohen, the billionaire co-founder of on-line pet-products retailer Chewy Inc. who bought a virtually 10% stake in Mattress Tub & Past final March, offered off all his shares.

Shares had been hovering near 30 cents previously few days. A 12 months in the past, shares had been buying and selling at round $17.