joannes again
#61
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Join Date: May 2010
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Originally Posted by CompulsiveQuilter
Worked at Joann's for years - the highest-profit departments are home decor fabrics, notions, and paper-crafting (in that order). They've yet to expand their selection of notions of late but Home Dec fabric is exploding. Yeah, we're bottom on the totem pole. Then again, maybe it's because we buy only half-yards at a time, of a bazillion different fabrics. lol
#62
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Join Date: May 2010
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Originally Posted by Joyce
Anybody remember making your own lingerie??
Another thing I've noticed fabric stores doing away with is bridal fabrics. The fabric store my mom worked at had the most fabulous bridal dept and it did really well. Now it is all gone.
#63
Originally Posted by TexasGurl
This just brought to mind - are there still House of Fabrics stores or So Fro Fabrics anywhere ??
We used to have So Fro stores here years ago, just wondering if any still exist today ??
We used to have So Fro stores here years ago, just wondering if any still exist today ??
I was assistant manager at House of Fabrics here in the Valley and went through the whole transition and remodel and all. (And we were open every day of that remodel.)
As for staffing at the stores.... every store is assigned a certain number of "payroll hours", plus management hours. That is what you have to staff the store with. So how many people are on the floor at one time can vary from store to store. And how it affects the bottom line. Our store was a large traditional store (not one of the ETC. stores). We were open the standard hours (set by the company.) Had to always have 2 people in the store "on the clock". And do everything with an average of 225 hours per week of payroll. (9-9 Monday -Saturday, 12-6 on Sunday is 78 hours, plus about and hour before opening and after closing and you are well on the way to 100 hours. Times 2 employees leaves about 25 hours for shift overlaps, lunch breaks and so on. Not a lot of coverage. )
Pati, in Phx who is not sorry to be out of that job. <G>
#65
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: north Alabama
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When I lived in Wisconsin, there was a JoAnn's about 3 miles away. Now that I'm back in Alabama, I just wish there was one here, anywhere! The closest Hancock's is about 10 miles away, and there is nowhere any closer to buy thread or anything! Even our Wal-Mart closed their fabrics and notions out. (Well, they've got a FEW things left, when you search for them! but not fabrics)
#66
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Hawthorne NJ
Posts: 122
THE RAG SHOP!!!!!
I live in the town where the original flagship store was. My girlfriend and I called it our "HOME AWAY FROM HOME"!
It took Mr B years to build it up. It took only a couple of years for the people who bought it to run it into the ground. I miss it so much. Now there is a second hand store in the original Rag Shop store.
Linda
I live in the town where the original flagship store was. My girlfriend and I called it our "HOME AWAY FROM HOME"!
It took Mr B years to build it up. It took only a couple of years for the people who bought it to run it into the ground. I miss it so much. Now there is a second hand store in the original Rag Shop store.
Linda
#67
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 345
I have 3 Joannes within a 15 mile radius of me and lately I have noticed that none of them have any of the older long term employees who knew their products. I strongly suspect the new owners have found a way to get rid of the higher paid employees (phoney bad performance reviews?) and now have newbie minium wage workers who are just happy to have a job but know nothing about what they are selling,especially fabric.
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