Burlington Coat Factory

    By Linda Doell

    | 2:00PM 4/13/2011
    My Michelle recalled about 90,000 girls' dresses and tops (example shown at right) sold at stores nationwide because the decorative trim and jewelry contain high levels of lead, the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) reported in a recent statement. Lead can be toxic to small children...

    By Linda Doell

    | 1:30PM 3/02/2011
    Burlington Coat Factory recalled some of its Bella Kitchen five-quart programmable slow cookers after 60 reports of the control panels smoking, melting, sparking and in some cases catching fire, said the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. So far, no one has been reported hurt from using the...

    By Andrea Hermitt

    | 1:00PM 10/12/2010
    National Layaway Week has already come and gone (Oct 4- Oct 8 according to Kmart, which invented the event), a full seven weeks before Black Friday and 11 weeks before Christmas. But it's not too late to do your shopping now and have enough time to make the payments to get your items out of hock by...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 4:30PM 3/05/2010
    The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is moving toward forbidding companies that sell, make or import children's clothing from offering outerwear with drawstrings after a sweep by the agency found numerous violations of its 14-year-old guidelines regarding the products, WalletPop.com has...

    By Josh Smith

    | 11:00AM 10/16/2009
    Imagine you're minding your own business looking for a new coat at Burlington Coat Factory on an idle Tuesday afternoon when a stretch Hummer Limo rolls up and out jumps Linda Brown, 45, who tells the entire store that she won a $1.5 million lottery prize and wanted to spend $500 on everyone in the...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 9:00AM 3/10/2009
    A Connecticut TV station has nabbed Burlington Coat Factory for passing off low-priced Wal-Mart coats as premium Perry Ellis and Joseph Abboud garments. It's hard to believe anyone thought they could get away with it. All it took was a customer noticing that his label appeared to be pasted on. He...