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Bed Bath & Beyond Launches Affirm Payment Option

Eligible customers shopping across Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) brands - including Overstock, Bed Bath & Beyond, and buybuy BABY - can choose Affirm (AFRM) at online checkout and pay over time in biweekly or monthly payments with no hidden fees, late fees, or compounding interest. "Bed Bath & Beyond is where customers come for everything home, from the everyday essentials, to the perfect seasonal touches, to the projects that transform a room," said Lisa Foley, Chief Operating Officer, Bed Bath & Beyond. "Affirm gives them the flexibility to pay their way and to bring their vision to life on a timeline that works for them."

Bed Bath & Beyond Proposes New Housing Act Framework

Bed Bath & Beyond published a position paper on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, laying out a direct case: the systems Americans rely on to buy, finance, maintain, and profit from a home were never built to work together, and the Company intends to be the one that connects them. The paper, penned by Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Marcus Lemonis, does not treat the Act as a narrow housing bill. It treats it as confirmation that Washington is now focused on the same broken system the Company has been working on internally. "For decades, the housing economy has been treated like a series of disconnected events," said Lemonis. "A consumer gets financial advice from one institution, searches for a home on another platform, gets a mortgage from a lender, buys products from a retailer, hires contractors through referrals, estimates value through a third-party website, and eventually sells through another disconnected channel. The homeowner is at the center of the largest financial decision of their life, and no single company is truly helping them understand, operate, improve, protect, finance, and profit from that home over time. We intend to be that company." The paper argues that housing supply is constrained, affordability is stretched, lending access is uneven, local governments lack useful data, older housing stock needs repair, appraisals need modernization, and veterans and first-time buyers need better guidance. Lemonis frames the Company's response around four connected layers: Neighborhood Intelligence as the intelligence layer, Beyond Home as the homeowner relationship layer, Beyond Home Services as the execution layer, and Beyond Omni as the commerce layer. "Zillow estimates homes," said Lemonis. "We intend to understand neighborhoods. The policy world is trying to solve housing from the top down. We have the chance to solve it from the homeowner, the neighborhood, and the home up - and we believe homes should be accessible to the families who live in them, not just to the largest pools of capital."