Tuesday Morning - new stuff

That’s great! Let’s hope this is a trend.

Excuse me while I drop everything and make a trip.

Haha, probably would if it wasn’t so close to school pick up.

sadly, my last trip was a huge disappointment. i think the days of fully stocked SB aisles are gone.

I’m here now and they have one Amy Tan- Picnic in the Park.
It’s $6.99 and Brave and Bold for the same.

They have a Graphic 45 pad only 16 sheets $5.99, a couple 6x8 pads by Jen Hatfield and Maggie Holmes-$$3.99

Still very slim pickings.

They also have a couple Big Shots $80 and WeR Memory Keepers Bloom Embellishment Storage $19.

Mine had 2 different Echo Park 6x6 paper pads - Summer Splash and one other.

I went back again today because I was headed to Costco (next door) and the check out gal said she thought she saw a bit of paper that had not been shelved.

“A bit” was pretty accurate. They added Graghic 45 Fashion Forward and Jen Hadfield Reaching Out (which I bought). So not sure I will be checking in weekly, but TM is not dead yet.

I picked up some Shimelle Never Grow Up and VB Art for Everyone pad. Still looking for a small to medium sized die cutting machine. The Big Shot is too big.

ETA: I went to both of mine and while they had a few things in common, lots of things were different, so maybe they didn't get a ton of product and just spread it around.

And there were maybe 4 of the specialty lines the Joann's sold a few months back.

Idk how true it is, but a friend told me she watched a video from someone who asked the manager at her TM what was going on. Apparently they're trying to bring crafts back after an onslaught of complaints from people pissed off about what they did to the department but that it may be slow going because a lot of businesses don't want to work with companies that have declared bankruptcy recently. I never bothered with that other than calling them out on socials where their media person lied and said they didn't plan to remove crafts ('it is an integral part of our business'...yeah right) the week before my store's manager told me they were decreasing the craft department by 10% per week for the foreseeable future. I mostly didn't expect complaining would yield results...so if this is true then I was very wrong.

Adding on to the manager conversation, last week I asked mine (who is has been at the store awhile) and he said he was unsure, but the last conference call he was on said they would be bringing back more crafts. And then this week the crafts/stationary/art supplies had all been placed on one shelving unit (from 3 last week). So if they will be getting crafts they certainly aren’t saving room for anything in the near future.

I stopped by yesterday and was surprised to see paper packs and pads that were new. There was a G45 with an April theme that had Iris on the back kind of a stained glass look, more brilliant colors than they have usually had for their papers. They also had a lovely lighter pink card stock that l think was Bazzill. I only had 5 minutes to even look.

It gives me hope that perhaps the higher ups may have realized crafters often would come in for crafts, and leave with additional goods besides.

I stopped in today for something else and half-heartedly checked what's left of the craft aisle.

They had Simple Stories collection packs for $9.99--Bro & Co, Kate & Ash and Apron Strings. (And a whole lot of old Karen Foster paper packs languishing in clearance).

My store used to be one long full row, both sides, including the yarn and fabric stuff. No stationery or wrapping paper. That was in a different row. Earlier this year the SB stuff dropped to 4 sections. Yesterday it was 4 feet wide!

Yeah, no. There was nothing I wanted. Same as others, a few packs of Simple Stories, Joann's Park Lane paper pads, off-brand stuff, and some packs of thin cardstock (Violet something). There were some rectangle Spellbinder dies, but none I wanted.

Mine hasn't has anything new for a while, time to check it out again.