Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles on Grand Avenue in Oakland will permanently close on Oct. 22 after 34 years in operation.
A treasured Oakland furniture store known for offering some of the best deals in the Bay Area is permanently closing on Oct. 22 after 34 years in operation. Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles on Grand Avenue announced the news in an Instagram post over the weekend — that both of its stores run by the African People’s Education and Defense Fund in Oakland and Philadelphia would shutter. The East Coast location had been open for 29 years.
So people are just in shock, they’re devastated — they say they’ve been coming here for years, and if our store can’t make it in this economy, who can?” In its statement, Uhuru Furniture cited the gentrification of Oakland’s historic African community, the loss of supplemental SNAP benefits in Philadelphia earlier in March, and other mounting economic challenges as some of the reasons for its closures, which “made it impossible for the Uhuru Furniture stores to absorb rising expenses, provide...
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