Dressbarn Closing All Stores, Including 8 In New Hampshire

Dressbarn, the women's clothing store that has been in business for nearly six decades, is hanging it up. Parent company ascena retail group, inc. announced Monday it will be closing all 650 of the stores, including the eight located in New Hampshire, at an undisclosed date.

"All Dressbarn stores are open and conducting business as usual, as is Dressbarn's ecommerce site," the company said in a press release. "Customers can continue to shop at Dressbarn in-store and online and use Dressbarn-branded credit cards for purchases. There are no current changes to Dressbarn's return, refund, or gift card policies."

CFO Steven Taylor called the decision "difficult but necessary" as the stores were "not been operating at an acceptable level of profitability in today's retail environment."

The company employees about 6,800 people. The release said they will be told about when individual stores will close and be given "transition support." Dressbarn also said it will continue paying its vendors and suppliers in full for products and services provided during the wind down process.

• Epping
• Manchester
• Nashua
• North Conway
• Seabrook
• Somersworth
• Tilton

Shannon Antinori, Patch, contributed to this report