Alco stores going out of business
I got an email this morning announcing the closing of all Alco stores. I use to make a special trip to buy name brand fabric at Alco but haven't been back to one since they took the fabric dept out of the stores several years ago.
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What part of the country are these stores in?? I never heard of them. When I moved south in CA, there was a Hobby Lobby which I had never been in before. I don't go there if I am broke. Too many pretty items that I always want to take home with me.
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Alco stores are usually in small towns too small for a Walmart or Kmart. They are like a mini Walmart.
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Our town of about 25,000 has a Walmart, had a K-mart, and it closed, now our Alco is closing. It used to carry mill ends of quilting and other fabrics and they were very reasonably priced. I think the beginning of the end was when they closed out the fabric as I bought tons of fabris there. We also had a Ben Franklin and it closed. So now all we have is Walmart and if you want to go anywhere else you will drive 100 miles round trip one direction and more in any other direction. No wonder we order on line so much!
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The Alco manager at the one I bought fabric from told me he didn't understand why the fabric was taken out of the store because during slow periods the fabric dept made the biggest profit. He said it thought it was big mistake but corporate said too much paid time was wasted cutting fabric. I guess they know best as seen by the latest outcome. LOL
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Originally Posted by Onebyone
(Post 7013790)
The Alco manager at the one I bought fabric from told me he didn't understand why the fabric was taken out of the store because during slow periods the fabric dept made the biggest profit. He said it thought it was big mistake but corporate said too much paid time was wasted cutting fabric. I guess they know best as seen by the latest outcome. LOL
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We lost Alco in all the towns around us a while ago. Miss it. We used to get some pretty good deals on some name brand fabric and upholstery fabric.
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