RedState reported on Wednesday about the announcement from Bed Bath and Beyond executive chairman Marcus Lemonis that his company had no plans to open locations in California.
“We will not open or operate retail stores in California,” Lemonis wrote.
In addition to pointing out that the decision wasn’t “about politics,” Lemonis went on to note that “California has created one of the most overregulated, expensive, and risky environments for businesses in America. It’s a system that makes it harder to employ people, harder to keep doors open, and harder to deliver value to customers.”
READ MORE: Bed, Bath, and Beyond Takes a Shocking Stand and Outright Nukes Gavin Newsom’s California
Other businesses in California have either scaled back, closed down, or left the state for similar reasons in what some political observers and business commentators have called a mass exodus.
Lemonis’s remarks were made amid an attempt at a comeback of sorts for the online home goods retailer after the original Bed Bath and Beyond chain shuttered its brick-and-mortar locations in 2023 and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Rebranded by owners Beyond Inc. as Bed Bath & Beyond Home, its first location opened this month in Nashville, and the company has plans to open hundreds more stores in the coming months.
Instead of acting like a real leader who was eager to work with the company to bring much-needed jobs to his state, Newsom and his unhinged social media team have posted some pretty imbecilic – and rather revealing – responses on X.
“The company that already went bankrupt and closed every store across the country two years ago? Ok,” Newsom said in one tweet.
In another, he bashed former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) criticism of his reaction, writing that “Next, he’s going to announce that Blockbuster wants to move back to California too.”
His press office posted this:
After their bankruptcy and closure of every store, like most Americans, we thought Bed, Bath & Beyond no longer existed.
We wish them well in their efforts to become relevant again as they try to open a 2nd store.
Dumb, clueless, and childish are just some of the words that came to mind when I read this stuff, but it was Lemonis himself who had the best comeback of all, suggesting in so many words that it was pretty astonishing that instead of looking for ways to attract investment and capital, Newsom was rejecting it:
“Well, I think the thing that was surprising to me was that I tried to articulate, in a non-aggressive way, exactly why our company wasn’t going to reinvest capital in California. What I found out this afternoon was that Governor Newsom had enough time to respond to a tweet to remind everyone in America that in 2023 the company went out of business. Now we’re trying to make a comeback, and I would think that a governor would want to attract investment and attract capital into the state. In fact, he did the opposite; he rejected it.”
Watch:
Bed Bath & Beyond Executive Chairman Marcus Lemonis pushes back on Gavin Newsom’s attacks after the company announced it will not open any stores in California:
“Well, I think the thing that was surprising to me was that I tried to articulate, in a non-aggressive way, exactly… pic.twitter.com/Kh6979ACUA
— Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 (@seanhannity) August 21, 2025
FLASHBACK –>> Newsom: “I know folks are saying, ‘Oh they’re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town.’ That’s true because it’s true…”
While the governor and his staff mock the company as it tries to bounce back, here are some additional things to keep in mind about the Golden State under Newsom’s “leadership” just to emphasize the outright jacka**ery of their responses (language warning):
WHY DID THEIR STORES CLOSE GAVIN 🪿 pic.twitter.com/59HZABcYIn
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) August 21, 2025
Continuing to make fun of businesses that are forced out of California by your abysmal policies certainly seems to be working out. pic.twitter.com/5J7vjYw7XT
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) August 21, 2025
But keep “slay, kween, slaying” on social media, governor. You’re doing just great. Yep.
Editor’s note: This post has been updated post-publication for clarity.
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