Georgia store closures — October 2026

50 food and drink plants in 25 states have closed or set a 2026 closing date. Of the 34 whose source gives a reason, 14 are moving the work to other plants, the most common reason.

Crumbl, the pink-box cookie chain, is shrinking. Restaurant Business reported on October 19 that Crumbl has closed 65 locations since April 30 and opened 15, for 50 net closures.

Between Sept. 26 and Oct. 24, our weekly checks found 275 stores that 44 chains removed from their own online store locators, across 42 states.

The brands are not filing; their operators are. Twenty-six franchisee bankruptcy filings by 21 operators this year across Popeyes, Applebee's, Subway, Hardee's, Carl's Jr., Wendy's, Denny's, Village Inn and more, every one anchored to a court docket.

43 independent and franchise-run grocery stores in our records have a 2026 closing date. Of the 25 that said why, 8 pointed to rising costs (utilities, meat, rent, wages), 8 to an owner retiring or leaving, and 7 to competition from larger chains.

We count 66 plants whose owners have set a closing date after October 19, across 26 states: 12 in October, 10 in November, 26 in December, 18 in 2027.

At least 117 brewery and taproom locations in 33 states closed, announced a closing or filed for bankruptcy in 2026. Many are a single taproom of a brewer that is still in business.

We count 82 trucking companies that filed in 2026, from one-truck operators to regional fleets with more than a hundred trucks.

Staples' wholesale arm is closing eight sites on or about October 3, its Illinois headquarters included, covering 1,278 jobs. Every figure sits on a state WARN notice.

O'Charley's shut its company-owned restaurants on Wednesday, September 9, 2026. Reports put the total at 44 to 49; these are the 33 a local outlet named, by state and address.

RNDC has filed 30 WARN notices in 19 states and D.C. this year, 22 at a named site and 8 statewide, 6,329 positions on the notices we hold, counted once per notice; not additive, conditional ahead of asset sales.

Haynes Furniture's outlet brand said on September 10, 2026 it will close Tempe, Atlanta, Lombard, Deerfield, Houston and Irving; the Virginia stores stay. Addresses and status for each.

The 14-year-old Howell Mill Road store in Atlanta's West Midtown closed August 28 without notice. A pop-up in Fairhaven, Washington closed the same week.

Four WARN notices filed after the July 26 Chapter 11 cover the Cobb County headquarters and the Atlanta distribution facility. Permanent layoffs begin October 19.