From I heard/read joanns was bought out with in the past year by someone else and that is when the store started being better and making more profit. The "family" that owned and ran the company was not doing a good job and ran the company into debt. New owners helped turned it around and made company debt free. Hope the company that did the new byout does the same making the stores better. I have also seened that recently some of the snall stores in my area have gotten not stuff eventhough it makes the store seem crowded.