Altmeyer’s discounting merchandise before closing Butler Twp. store
Altmeyer’s Bed, Bath and Home is closing its store in Point Plaza in Butler Township, ending its connection to the county that began in the 1950s.
The store’s space in the plaza is being leased to another business, and no other suitable locations in the plaza were available, said Robert Altmeyer, company president.
“So, unfortunately, we have to leave the Butler area,” Altmeyer said Monday.
A closing sale in which merchandise will be deeply discounted begins Tuesday. The plan is to close the store by mid-August, but the date depends on when the merchandise is sold, he said. The store will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday until it closes.
“The whole store is going on sale (Tuesday),” Altmeyer said. “We’re deeply discounting everything because we’d rather sell it than move it.”
He said he did not have a formal lease for the store with the plaza owners, but the agreement they have allows either side to end their relationship after providing three months notice.
The move ends Altmeyer’s presence in the county that represented the company’s expansion into Western Pennsylvania from its original store in New Kensington in Westmoreland County.
Altmeyer said his grandfather, George Altmeyer, opened the first store in downtown New Kensington using $4,000 he had saved. After a few successful years in business, he opened satellite stores in Butler, Greensburg, Johnstown, West Mifflin and Uniontown in the 1950s.
In the 1980s, the store on Main Street in Butler was relocated to Moraine Pointe Plaza. The store then moved to its current location in the 1990s.
The five other stores will remain open, and Altmeyer’s will continue to offer online shopping. The six to eight employees who work at the Point Plaza store have been offered transfers to the New Kensgington store, Altmeyer said.
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Viki Sherman, of Butler, and Karen Yetter, of Cabot, shop together at Altmeyer’s Bed, Bath and Home on Monday in Butler Township. “That’s sad. This has been here a long time,” Sherman said of the location’s closing. “This town can’t lose anymore stores. I’m kind of glad I’m moving,” said Yetter. Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle 6/13/22
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Garden items are pictured at Altmeyer’s Bed, Bath and Home on Monday in Butler Township. The Butler Township location will close this summer after selling all its merchandise. Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle 6/13/22
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Bedding is on display at Altmeyer’s Bed, Bath and Home on Monday in Butler Township. The Butler Township location will close this summer after selling all its merchandise. Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle 6/13/22
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