78-year-old furniture chain closing all stores nationwide

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Source: AL.com

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78-year-old furniture chain closing all stores nationwide

Published: Jan. 13, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
By Leada Gore | [e-mail]

A 78-year old national furniture chain known for its affordable options is closing down.

All Value City Furniture and American Signature Furniture locations nationwide are closing. There are currently 79 Value City Furniture locations across 13 states and 10 American Signature Furniture locations across 10 states.

The chain’s parent company, Ohio-based American Signature Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2025. At the time, it said all Value City Furniture and American Signature Furniture and their websites would remain open. This week, however, they announced going-out-of-business sales would start at all remaining properties with discounts of up to 50 percent on home furnishings, furniture, décor, lighting, mattresses and rugs.

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Leada Gore
Leada Gore has worked with AL.com for 13 years. She’s worked in Alabama journalism for more than 30 years. She now covers breaking and trending news, with a particular emphasis on government, finances and the things that impact you everyday. She is a past president of the Alabama Journalism Foundation and Alabama Press Association. In her free time, she enjoys traveling with her husband and teenage daughter, attending her daughter’s sporting events, and trivia. She is a native of Birmingham and a graduate of the University of Montevallo.

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[Wicked Blue]

1. The Value City near me has had a going out of business sale for more than a year

possibly two years.

[Cheezoholic]

2. Yeah, some of these have been on "fire" for decades lol n/t

[Wonder Why]

3. Can't sell their Chinese furniture because of the tariffs?

And with all the Amish being deported back to Ahmland, there's nowhere to buy American.

Sad!

[Aussie105]

4. A lot of retail outlets have gotten lazy over the decades

and gone over to 100% importing their wares.
Why buy hardwood from overseas and make furniture in America, when it is cheaper to import the finished product?

One very common supply for wooden furniture is from Indonesia, where old growth forests of valuable hardwoods have, and are being decimated.
South America too, I'd guess.

No one wants furniture made from locally grown or Canadian pine, right?

Tariffs are going to drive a lot out of business.