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What American Eagle Outfitters layoffs have meant for employees

American Eagle Outfitters, or AEO, combined Quiet with AirTerra, a delivery startup it also bought in 2021, and Supply Chain Dive later called the 2026 shutdown the end of the retailer's “anti-Amazon” ambitions for the deal. In 2023 AEO was saying in a statement, carried by WWD, that Quiet's third-party work “has not achieved the plans we envisioned.” Its quarterly report says Quiet primarily served AEO's own regionalized fulfillment network through the end of fiscal 2025, with excess space going to outside customers, so the third-party side AEO said had fallen short was the smaller part of the work. That same fiscal year, the company decided to close it.

When AEO disclosed the shutdown in January, it said it expected Quiet's Atlanta center to keep providing distribution for its brands, and that La Palma would close as planned while it prepared to open a distribution center in Phoenix, Supply Chain Dive reported. In February, Stord, the company taking on the Dallas operation, said it would become the preferred fulfillment provider for Quiet's former customers, and its chief executive said several Quiet employees would join it. If AEO or a company like Stord offers you work at another site, you can look at the commute, the hours and the wage there, and at any package on offer.

Outside the warehouses, AEO's filings sort its cuts by kind. Its fiscal 2025 10-K puts the fiscal 2023 and 2024 severance under corporate lines, then a fourth-quarter fiscal 2025 charge that pairs severance with $21.3 million in store write-downs “to align the organization with its strategic priorities,” and the overseas exits, from Japan, where all four stores closed in January 2024, and from Hong Kong, whose retail operations went to a third-party buyer. Each of those lines totals a whole program's cost for the company, so none of them can stand in for what an individual was offered. If you held an office job in those years, the corporate lines are where those reorganizations show up in the company's own accounting.

On its December 2025 earnings call, AEO said it was on track to close 35 lower-productivity American Eagle stores while opening 22 Aerie and 26 Offline stores, Sourcing Journal reported, so the closings and the openings fell on different brands. Those store moves sat apart from the Quiet shutdown, part of what Sourcing Journal called a rearranged retail footprint. If you work at an American Eagle store, it may be worth asking whether there are jobs at Aerie or Offline stores near you.

The closing notices in our WARN filings tracker don't all carry the American Eagle name. Massachusetts has the Devens notice under AE Regional Distribution Co., LLC, the name Quiet Logistics took, and the 2023 Florida and 2025 Illinois notices are under Quiet Logistics, Inc., while California lists La Palma under American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. itself, as a permanent closure effective April 3, 2026. Quiet Logistics and AE Regional were one AEO subsidiary under two names, so a notice under either came from AEO's own unit. Those three names cover all six filings by AEO and its Quiet unit in the tracker.

If you were at Devens, AE Regional's letter counted warehouse associates as the largest group to be laid off, 67 of them, and pointed people to MassHire's Rapid Response Team for search assistance, unemployment insurance information and workshops, Worcester Business Journal reported. There's more on each state's benefits at Massachusetts unemployment benefits, at California unemployment benefits for La Palma, and at Illinois unemployment benefits and Florida unemployment benefits for the older Chicago and Jacksonville closings.