Originally Posted by crafterrn1
Support your local quilt shops or be prepared to shop on-line all the time! Just my Humble Opinion on the matter! Thanks for listening! Luann in CT were 3 quilt shops closed in in past 6 months!
Luann..it takes way more than a few small purchases to keep a shop open. I know, all I had was those small purchases. THe average 1K sq ft shop needs to make about $1,000.00 day in sales just to break even!
Many small shops are closing due to over population of shops...lack of control on their spending, mismanagement, and a vast array of other reasons. It is just always easiest to blame the economy, walmart, or online shops!
For the record, many of us here do not live anywhere close to a LQS,(let alone 3 of them) so if we do not like the big box chain stores, we rely on the online shops. AND many of the online shops that I use are either B&M shops, or used to be B&M shops!