The only Hancock's in our area had moved into the old Ben Franklin Craft store. It didn't even last a year. I was making gingerbread dolls and went there for the first time thinking I would find everything for my dolls. I needed to buy brown felt and they did not have any. To me it looked more like an outlet store. So I went to JoAnn's and found everything. A few months later Hancock was closed. Yet I hear how so many people love their store. Guess we got stuck with a bad one.
Oh...and I know to well about renewing magazines. I subscribed to Rachael Ray's mag. and also NewsMax and before I got my first issue of RR I got a renewal notice. When I got my first issue of NewsMax there was a card enclosed to renew...and both of these were 2 year subscriptions. lol