on Monday. The move allows David’s Bridal to keep open 195 stores and preserve 7,000 jobs nationwide.
We’re still navigating the impacts of COVID. In the beginning when COVID first hit, David’s Bridal went dark in all stores. Venues were restricted or venues actually could not hold weddings of any size. You had a significant amount of events get deferred from 2020 to 2021 to 2022, which really put a strain on the capacity of the system, of venue availability.
We have 12 stores in the state of Pennsylvania — we actually have 15 locations with two distribution centers and the corporate office. We have closed one store. In the end, the layoff in that store is a little over 30 people. We’ve done some layoffs elsewhere throughout the company. In the end, we have closed approximately 100 stores nationwide. Long term, that’ll be a strength for David’s.