Grunt Style closures will cost 19 San Antonio retail workers their jobs by Nov. 30

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October 11, 2026

Grunt Style, the San Antonio military-themed apparel company, is closing its Broadway store in the city, and 19 retail workers will lose their jobs by Nov. 30. The San Antonio Report says 11 of the 19 work full time. The company is shutting stores in other states, too.

The Broadway store

The report says Grunt Style sent a WARN letter to the Texas Workforce Commission saying it expects to close the retail site “in its entirety.” WARN is shorthand for the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the federal law that requires advance notice of some closings. The 19 positions are the ones named in that letter, and the date it gives is Nov. 30, 2026.

The report also says no final decision has been made about the future of the company’s headquarters. The company has not said in the report whether any of the 19 workers will be offered jobs elsewhere in the business.

Other closings

The same report names El Paso, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Missouri as places with WARN notices or closures. Layoff-tracking site WARN Tracker, which collects state filings, lists notices dated Oct. 1 and Oct. 2, 2026, for stores in Woodstock, Georgia, with 9 workers, Destin, Florida, with 8, Lutz, Florida, with 9, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with 7. Each of those four lists Nov. 30 as the layoff date. It also lists a Chandler, Arizona, notice for 9 workers with no layoff date.

Those filings add up to far more than the 19 in San Antonio, but they come from a third-party tracker, not from the company or a state agency, and the Texas notice is not on the tracker’s list. Grunt Style has not published a total.

For a retail worker at the store, the question is what to file first, and when.

The number to watch in this story is the Grunt Style job count, which stands at 19 in San Antonio and grows with each new state WARN filing.

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What the WARN notice means

The federal rules are described on the Department of Labor’s WARN page. Employers with 100 or more workers must give 60 calendar days’ written notice before a plant closing or mass layoff affecting 50 or more employees at a single site. The notice goes to the affected workers, their representatives, the local chief elected official and the state’s dislocated worker unit.

A single store with 19 workers is below the 50-person trigger the Labor Department describes. What matters to the workers is the date: Nov. 30 is when the Broadway jobs end, according to the San Antonio Report.

Filing for unemployment in Texas

The Texas Workforce Commission says to apply for unemployment benefits as soon as unemployment begins or hours are cut, and not before the last day of work. A claim starts on the Sunday of the week it is filed, and the agency says it “cannot pay benefits for weeks before you became unemployed.” For the Broadway workers, that means applying after the last shift, not before.

Applications go through Unemployment Benefits Services online, using a TWC User ID and a four-digit PIN, or by phone through Tele-Serv at 800-558-8321. Claim status and payment requests are available daily from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Central Time.

The application asks for a Social Security number, a valid Texas driver license or ID card number, and the last employer’s name, address and phone number. It also asks for employment dates, plus hours and pay rate for any week worked during the week of the application.

After a claim is active, a person asks for payment through the same system or the phone line. Each request asks for any weekly earnings and the person’s work search activities that week. If the commission asks for a Work Search Log, it is submitted on the same system, and there are upload, mail and fax options if that does not work.

What is still unknown

The San Antonio Report is the only source in this story for the 19-worker figure and the Nov. 30 date. Grunt Style has not published a list of store closings or said how many workers are affected in all. The Texas Workforce Commission is the agency that received the letter, and it has not been quoted in the report.

Getting ready before Nov. 30

A worker at a closing store can do most of the preparation before the last shift. Find the Social Security number, the Texas ID number and the store’s address and phone number, since the unemployment form asks for all of them. Write down the first and last day of work and the hourly rate, and keep pay stubs together in one place.

The commission’s page is the free and official route: twc.texas.gov or Tele-Serv at 800-558-8321. The best day to apply is after the last day worked, because benefits are not paid for weeks before unemployment began.

The next facts to appear will be from the company and the state: whether Grunt Style publishes a full closing list, and whether more stores file notices before the end of November.

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