It's the end of an era. Party City, a go-to retailer for all things celebrations and materialist fun, announced last December ...

Booming business on e-commerce sites and big-box retailers has also been making it hard for chains such as Party City, which ...

The Woodcliff Lake-based party store chain with hundreds of locations across the country is shutting down early this year.

Additionally, a helium shortage – the backbone of its balloon business – deflated one of Party City’s key revenue streams. The covid-19 pandemic years exacerbated these challenges.

Party City navigated a pre-pandemic shortage of helium for balloons, securing a new supply source. It was impacted severely by the COVID-19 pandemic, when lockdowns and social distancing ended ...

Grab your balloons and streamers while you can because Party City is officially shutting down. The once-mighty party supply chain announced it's closing all of its stores after nearly four decades in ...

Party City, which has more than a dozen locations ... but problems — including a helium shortage that hurt its balloon sales — continued to plague the embattled party chain.

Hit by headwinds including inflationary pressures, competition from e-commerce sites, big box retailers, pop-up stores and even a helium ... Party City, which sells everything from balloons ...