The national chains are looking to occupy retail space in the former Sears building at Turnpike Mall off of Western Avenue.
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Red, white and cool
There are few holidays as unabashedly simple as the Fourth of July. You don’t have to worry about the food safety implications of stuffing or not stuffing a turkey. There’s no making a list and checking it twice. No one is judging you on your costume, if you decide to wear a costume, which, hey, […]
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Big box store wins again
After 25 years of serving this area, locally-owned Craftmania is going out of business. I visited Friday, Aug. 14, as I have so many times before, and my mood matched that of my fellow shoppers, as well as the employees. We were sad, not just for ourselves, losing a valuable resource for our crafting needs, […]
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Sad to see store close
Another local business is to be replaced by a national chain. Recently, I was purchasing craft supplies at Craft-mania and saw a sign in the window, “Celebrating 25 years — a locally run business.” I entered the store and congratulated a salesperson. She responded with, “Thank-you, but we are going out of business in September.” […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Hobby Lobby or bust
It’s a bit HomeGoods. A bit Michael’s. A bit Jo-Ann Fabric. A bit hide-your-wallet. Hobby Lobby is the sort of place that you could easily come in for a picture frame and walk out with $50 worth of Marvel Comics drawer pulls. In our inaugural trip through its shiny new doors, Bag Lady and Shopping […]
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Street Talk: A Man’s Guide to Hobby Lobby
You didn’t have to look at the man very long to see that he was unhappy. He stood leaning against the bricks just outside the main doors, smoking angrily and shaking his head in disgust at regular intervals. Every time someone walked out of the store, he shot a baleful glance in that direction, hoping […]
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R. Charpentier: Getting the facts straight
In the Dec. 12 “Bliss Thru Shopping” column (love that section of the Sun Journal), Bag Lady mistakenly wrote about the Hobby Lobby store, soon to open, that “… we’re getting that craft store that’s arguing in front of the Supreme Court over its rights not to cover contraception.” That the Hobby Lobby business does […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Hobby Lobby cometh — and, ack!, lady bugs, too.
In this season of hyper-retailing, Bliss is whipping out a mash-up, a sort of palate-cleanser amid all the shopping you’ve got going on this month. Instead, Bag Lady is all about bugs, murderous summer camps and future shopping opportunities. You know, just an average day in the life. Let’s fa-la-la-la-la get to it! Hobby Lobby: […]
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J. Wenzel: What kind of hobby is that?
I had fun guessing what behemoth building was being erected next to Petco in Auburn. Few knew what was going up. David and Barbara Green are the owners of Hobby Lobby, a family run, privately-owned, highly profitable business ($3.3 billion in 2013) boasting 572 stores across the U.S. Their success does not stop there; in […]