Tuesday Morning Closing

I went into my store today for one last smell of the store (does anyone else's store have a distinct smell?) Some lady with a cart had decided to discuss the fate of the universe  with some other customer and was blocking the entire scrap section...  since I spent 25 minutes last week waiting for someone to move so I could look at the same things, I left.

Everything was 10% off last week, this week everything is 10% off with no refunds or returns, except furniture which is 20% off. If the puzzles were more than 10% off (barely covers the sales tax) I might have grabbed some...

I'm bummed, mine is closing and it seems to have been a really nice spacious store compared to others, even though the craft items haven't gotten back to being nearly as good as they were, plus the hike in prices.

Outside of craft stuff, I always found good random stuff there. Just a couple weeks ago DH dropped me off so I could run in quick. Found a GREAT 6'x8' rug that was $99 plus 10% off. We have a rental car rn and it was full of groceries, including dog food so I decided I was fine skipping it. Of course, couldn't forget about it so we ended up running back the next morning with his truck to get it. As they are rolling it up, I see it was a Ballard Designs wool rug. Wow, I was so happy with that score and others in the past, I'm going to miss looking there!

Oh nooooooo . We made it through the first round, but now both my stores are closing and one that I visit out of state too. Honestly, I don't even care about the craft stuff because it has not been that great lately, but all the other random stuff I occasionally find. I am going to miss that for sure.

We’ll just found out the 2 in my city are closing. I bought several Christmas gifts there. The craft aisle had already disappeared.

Three of my four made it through the first round of cuts, but they are now both closing. I just went to two of them this week. That’s probably the last time I’ll go since they won’t be getting anything new. I spent about $100 on scrappy stuff.

All the Oregon and Washington ones are closing (4 and 6 stores) and one of the two in Idaho.  Road trip... although I'm not sure the 12 hours round trip would be worth it.   

Although I've not been to a TM location in over 1.5 years, I'm hopeful the remaining 200 stores after bankruptcy restructuring will survive for the sake of their regular customers/employees. My thoughts are with all the employees who are now/soon without jobs. 

Agree. If the company chooses not to also list cities alphabetically for whatever reason, at least group all the closing stores in each city together. This random list is illogical...& seems to reflect the disheveled state of the company!

You must be referring to Boone, since the Asheville & Hendersonville locations are not on the list of store closings. Per the company website, TM has 26 stores in NC with 2 recently shuttered & 17 more scheduled to close, leaving only 7 stores statewide after the closures. 

It may be further than you go, but I noticed the one in Fargo isn't closing. I went there a few months ago and it was a small store but really packed and well organized. They had a better (although small) craft selection than mine has in the last couple of years. Plus they seemed to have a better selection of "upscale" items in general, if that makes sense. I was happy to score some Graphic 45 and Photoplay stamp/die sets (the gnome ones) and they attached any stamp sets that had coordinating dies together, so you got both for one price.

We lost my closest store last month. I got an email about one of the last 2 closing the other day...but both locations are on their website. No more TM in Nevada at all after this. I wnt to be sad, but I think I am just numb. Just had a local scrappy store close 2 weeks ago. Prices have been feeling like what we usually see in other countries as things get more expensive. I'm going to be hoarding my stash quite a bit more now because I will never be able to replace what I purge with the way things are going in the industry. TM will probably be gone completely within a year.

The two near me are closing. I don't even know where the next closest ones would be, maybe Colorado Springs if there are any stores not on the list?

TM has been my go-to for crafty hunting treasure trips until ~2020 when they stopped getting anything new in. They were my place to find a great assortment of toys for birthday/Christmas for my kiddo when we were on one income.

They were also my place to get staging items for houses. Sad I will have to travel outside my community for this, I like spending my $ in my town to promote those jobs and keep my sales tax where I will benefit from it.

The manager at my store was also so kind, I should stop in to say goodbye and see if she needs any connections for a new job.

The one remaining one near me is finally closing, after having survived the previous rounds of closures. I'll miss it greatly! I went in today for the first time since Christmas, and it was busy - lots more customers than usual, but I still found plenty of good merchandise left. I didn't let myself even look at the kitchenware aisle since I KNOW I'd be tempted by stuff I really don't need (but want anyway LOL). But I did buy a fair amount of scrappy stuff, planners (undated, my fave) and bullet journals and other misc. things I would have just bought elsewhere anyway.

I am lucky that this particular location usually does have a lot of scrappy things. I think they have benefited from merchandise that came from other now-closed stores in the area. It's pretty close so I'll maybe go once more before they close on March 31 (or before if everything sells out faster).

All Colorado and Utah stores are closing.  According to the employee, stores that have a 90% profit are the ones staying open.  Texas stores seem to have escaped the cut.

There are actually a lot of Texas stores on the list, unfortunately. 

I made my last purchase on Saturday.  I guess we won't be running into each other in the TM aisles anymore!  Maybe we should get together and scrap instead!