Wren Kitchens shuts 3 U.S. showrooms, affecting 30,000 customers

Wren Kitchens abruptly closed all of its U.S. showrooms after its U.S. arm filed for liquidation bankruptcy. The shutdown hit about 30,000 customers, including more than 8,000 in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and left hundreds of employees out of work.

Rick Follo of Broomall said he put down $13,000 for a dream kitchen and was left with an under-construction living space. “This is everything that we saved for and then some,” he said after the filing.

Delaware County customers

Follo said the company’s closure came after he had already committed money to the project. “There is no way that people should be able to rob you of your money just like that,” he said after Wren Kitchens closed its U.S. showrooms.

The shutdown also reached Springfield, Delaware County, where Linda Johnson had spent eight months working with the company on her kitchen design. She paid about $2,200 as an initial deposit and tried to pay a remaining balance of $26,000, but was told to wait for one last approval.

“What got me more upset than the money was all the time and energy I spent meeting with them, designing with them,” Johnson said after the store closed. “Thank God, I didn’t give them that money,” she said after the approval delay. “I don’t know what I would have done.”

Plymouth Township and Springfield

The closures included showrooms in Cherry Hill, Plymouth Township, and Springfield, Delaware County. The Plymouth Township store opened about a year ago in the shell of a former Rite Aid, and the Springfield location opened this past summer.

That left customers with unfinished kitchen projects and raised doubts about refunds while attorneys moved to file a class-action lawsuit on behalf of former employees, who alleged that Wren Kitchens violated the WARN Act.

For customers, the immediate step is to document deposits, design work, and all payment records tied to the shut showrooms, because the bankruptcy filing and the employee lawsuit both point to a companywide unwind rather than a local pause.