Speaking of JoAn's
06-30-2009, 11:19 AM
#11
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Clay Springs AZ
Posts: 3,229
Ive collected all my gadgets with Joann coupons so have quite a collection now.
I have been doing all my fabric buys on line. The prices are so good.
And it is quality fabric with name brands, even with shipping it is cheaper than the shops charge.
I miss not feeling the fabrics but it is fun to shop on line.
I have been doing all my fabric buys on line. The prices are so good.
And it is quality fabric with name brands, even with shipping it is cheaper than the shops charge.
I miss not feeling the fabrics but it is fun to shop on line.
06-30-2009, 11:36 AM
#12
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Sleepy Hollow, NY
Posts: 4,727
Originally Posted by Rose Marie
Ive collected all my gadgets with Joann coupons so have quite a collection now.
I have been doing all my fabric buys on line. The prices are so good.
And it is quality fabric with name brands, even with shipping it is cheaper than the shops charge.
I miss not feeling the fabrics but it is fun to shop on line.
I have been doing all my fabric buys on line. The prices are so good.
And it is quality fabric with name brands, even with shipping it is cheaper than the shops charge.
I miss not feeling the fabrics but it is fun to shop on line.
fabric by me costs $10-$12 a yard and i can buy it for $3-$5 a yard online.
its sad because my favorite LQS has gone out of business but this is a common problem for any brick and mortar business and the prices online.
06-30-2009, 11:45 AM
#13
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Indiana
Posts: 3,607
Originally Posted by May in Jersey
JoAnn's near me isn't a Super store, so it might be on the hit list to close.
Vicki, Nice to see another Jersey girl here, even though I wasn't born in Jersey and haven't been a girl for 50 years or so. I live in Monmouth County, center of Jersey along the eastern coastline - it's where The
Shore begings.
For all you non-Jersey quilters, in Jersey we don't go to the beach we go to The Shore. May in Jersey who keeps far away from The Shore from Memorial Day to Labor Day - the traffic is terrible especially Thursday nights to Monday mornings. We usually plan our weekends away from that area or to Manhattan which is pretty empty summer weekends or to visit family in Brooklyn, all the opposite way of the heavy traffic. Bugs us to no end as after Memorial Day our gas prices take a big jump and we pay higher car insurance rates during those months because we live near "The Shore". May in Jersey `
Vicki, Nice to see another Jersey girl here, even though I wasn't born in Jersey and haven't been a girl for 50 years or so. I live in Monmouth County, center of Jersey along the eastern coastline - it's where The
Shore begings.
For all you non-Jersey quilters, in Jersey we don't go to the beach we go to The Shore. May in Jersey who keeps far away from The Shore from Memorial Day to Labor Day - the traffic is terrible especially Thursday nights to Monday mornings. We usually plan our weekends away from that area or to Manhattan which is pretty empty summer weekends or to visit family in Brooklyn, all the opposite way of the heavy traffic. Bugs us to no end as after Memorial Day our gas prices take a big jump and we pay higher car insurance rates during those months because we live near "The Shore". May in Jersey `
It is funny to hear her say she is going to the "shore". To us the shore is the edge of the lake where we stand to fish. :lol:
06-30-2009, 12:34 PM
#14
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Front row
Posts: 14,646
I found this:
Jo-Ann Stores expects to close about 30 stores by the end of January 2009.
That’s five more stores than it originally planned.
A company press release did not specify which stores it will shutter. The company, which has 772 stores, could not be reached for comment.
I guess they are adding more store closing now.
Jo-Ann Stores expects to close about 30 stores by the end of January 2009.
That’s five more stores than it originally planned.
A company press release did not specify which stores it will shutter. The company, which has 772 stores, could not be reached for comment.
I guess they are adding more store closing now.
06-30-2009, 01:03 PM
#15
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: blink and you've missed it
Posts: 2,562
May- I live in NE PA and we go to "the Shore" all the time. :)
We are inundated with all the NY and NJ folk who find living in PA and commuting to NJ to work is so much better.
I agree with the gas prices- guaranteed to spike in the summer.
We're staying home this year- 2 weddings and DD & family coming home for 2 weeks from Japan. As much as I love the beach, it has to wait a year for the savings account to recover.
You are so lucky to live there! I hope to retire a spinster (ok, so I was married, but I like the word) on the beach, writing poetry and my memoirs and quilting my last days on earth. Probably won't happen, but I can dream!
We are inundated with all the NY and NJ folk who find living in PA and commuting to NJ to work is so much better.
I agree with the gas prices- guaranteed to spike in the summer.
We're staying home this year- 2 weddings and DD & family coming home for 2 weeks from Japan. As much as I love the beach, it has to wait a year for the savings account to recover.
You are so lucky to live there! I hope to retire a spinster (ok, so I was married, but I like the word) on the beach, writing poetry and my memoirs and quilting my last days on earth. Probably won't happen, but I can dream!
06-30-2009, 01:07 PM
#16
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Posts: 1,882
The Joann's I go to used to be small and they moved it and made it a Superstore but it is still pretty small compared to another one I go to once in awhile. If they would get rid of the doodads they could carry a lot more crafts and fabrics.
06-30-2009, 01:32 PM
#17
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Southeast Georgia, USA
Posts: 9,093
Originally Posted by May in Jersey
in Jersey we don't go to the beach we go to The Shore.
hmmm ... i wonder if that's why i don't go to frolic oceanside anymore. i've lived in the south for 30 years now. going to the beach just ain't the same. :lol:
06-30-2009, 01:44 PM
#18
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 105
My mom talked to the manager at her local Wal-Mart who was supposed to get rid of their fabric and ended up keeping it. Anyways he told her that Wal-Mart bought out Joanns. I told her I haven't heard anything but that is what he told her.
06-30-2009, 02:09 PM
#20
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: NW Panhandle Texas
Posts: 584
Found this
[quote]
Jo-Ann Fabrics shifts into Chapter 7 liquidation
WILMINGTON, Del. -- A federal judge has approved Jo-Ann Fabrics' request to convert its Chapter 11 bankruptcy to a
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[quote]
Jo-Ann Fabrics shifts into Chapter 7 liquidation
WILMINGTON, Del. -- A federal judge has approved Jo-Ann Fabrics' request to convert its Chapter 11 bankruptcy to a
Chapter 7 liquidation
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