Howard’s Appliance abruptly closes all Southern California stores

A week after Black Friday sales, the nearly 80-year-old Howard’s Appliance chain is shuttering all of its Southern California stores, offering only a day’s notice to employees and nothing to customers with orders in limbo.
The notice, signed by Isaiah Padilla, the logistics general manager for Howard’s, said that the 79-year-old La Habra-based company was closing its business operations, effective Dec. 6, due to “circumstances beyond our control.”
Padilla could not