What type of stores have closed in your area?

I don't know if the were here before I moved and closed or not but fabric stores are not as was to find. Not joanns or hobby lobby, but actual fabric stores/quilt stores. There is a big one in San diego about 45 min from me but nothing close to where I live. I have tried to do online shopping for fabric but its just not the same

The more recent ones I’ve noticed are Pier One, one of the Tuesday Morning stores on my end of town closed during the pandemic, some local Hallmark stores, and pretty much all of the scrapbook and rubber stamp stores (but that was well over a decade ago). All the fabric stores other than JoAnn’s closed a long time ago. Hobby Lobby also sells some fabric but I try to avoid going there.

Pier One is completely online.

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No brick and mortar At all.

snyder : Thanks, it's a gorgeous, historical place in a beautiful area of LI/NY. My son worked for a famous chef at their Mirabelle restaurant, Guy Reuge, and worked catering too. He learned a lot. What's funny is that many years before that, I made his recipe for a Buche de Noel (chocolate log roll) every Christmas and then my son worked beside him. Small world!

Sorry about your shops closing down there.

-independent scrapbook stores
-music stores
-clothing boutiques
-specialty stores

Basically, there is one or two major chain stores dominating the field for a type of product. Not a variety of choices and certainly not as many mom and pop stores to compete against them. Rents and other costs of doing business are too high for smaller businesses. Basically, if Amazon can underprice you, you are on very shaky ground.

My favorite consignment store just announced they were closing as the owner is retiring. They had a buyer but their realtor decided not to renew their lease and they couldn't find another suitable location. It is an hour away but is the only consignment store I've ever made any money selling at and I liked to shop there also.

Steinmart stores closed during the pandemic and I still miss them. If you didn't have one they were an upscale TJ Maxx type store.

A good quilt shop closed and I'm worried about some of the others as the owners are getting into retirement age.

Here in southern England it’s the independents that are falling. Our wonderful market town with a history back to 1066 at least is now dominated by charity shops, coffee shops and estate agents.

I'm pretty rural so we didn't have a ton to begin with. Michaels closed in Jan 2020 I think it was. There were two LSS but they are both long closed. We still have HL and an independent quilt shop.

The 'mall' is pretty empty - Payless closed, Goody's closed, Michaels closed, Hallmark closed, the military recruiters left, the men's suit place closed, Buffalo Wild Wings closed - we still have TJMax, JCP, Maurice, Catos, Shoe Depot, a sports store, Claires, not sure what else

The used book store closed. Restaurants open and close regularly - both chains and locals.

The same as other places. I miss scrapbook stores but don’t really need anything and I usually just buy supplies from myself CTMH. I rarely find anything I like at Michael’s, HL or Joann’s. I do order from scrapbook.com. We had a yarn store but that closed at least five years ago the land was bought for another project snd they cleared the stores but haven’t done anything since .

Fabric stores closed but still have an online store. They were too $$ anyway at least for me.

We still have several specialty stores but the owners are getting older so I wouldn’t be surprised to see them close within 5-10 years as that happened to our camera store snd a few restaurants. Others have opened in their space but I miss the old restaurants. They new are just not as good.

Our strip malls are filling back up. They weren’t full when we moved here eight years ago but the one main one will be 95% full soon. Several new areas have built snd opened to. Steinmart and pier 1 are being filled with a sketchers store snd a I think Steinmart is becoming Burlington. Kind of looking forward to checking it out. I think we are getting a five below to.

We try and buy local and small when we can but sometimes they are just do much more. Farmers markets here can be insanely expensive. I like to go occasionally and go buy local honey snd grab juice from one of the stands. I would love to buy more local. We have a tea snd spice store snd I like them but it’s $$. Lots of local wineries, olive oil, breweries. We try and avoid chains for eating out most of the time. We have a lot of good food here.

Herberger's closed in 2018, and I really miss it. I liked shopping there, and really loved their displays and shopping there during the Holiday Season. We lost Sears years ago and Kmart in 2020. Now, the north Taco Johns, near the university has closed. This leaves even fewer food options on the north side of our town.

I just read about that too. They are laying off 20% of the workforce and closing a bunch of stores. One of the ones near me closed about 6 months ago.

I so rarely shop in actual stores so I'm not sure. lol. The only one that really impacted me was ACMoore. We have Michael's, but it's junky compared to the ACMoore that was here.

Like everywhere else, we lost our dedicated scrapbook stores. We also lost several of our quilting and sewing stores, including most of a local chain of fabric stores that was similar to Joann Fabrics but carried the lines you would find in quilting and sewing boutiques.

The big thing we have lost here have been children's clothing and shoe stores. Some of the chains collapsed completely; some became small departments inside adult stores; some department stores reduced their children's clothing departments and eliminated their children's shoe departments. It has become a lot more difficult to do anything but order online, which is mostly fine, but inconvenient if a good fit matters and/or if you aren't 100% sure of shoe size (or if your kid is particular about how the shoes feel on their feet) or if you need something immediately.