Happy New Year, Crafters
Today is one of those Q and A sessions, which is part “get
it off my chest” and part everything else.
My intention was never to unload, which I am not, but I have to say
something.
Do you feel the scrapbook/crafting world and industry is
changing? The reason why I am asking you
this question can be answered in 3 problems I see:
1.
Every time
I close my eyes, and LSS (Local Scrapbook Store) is closing. I was on Facebook two weeks when I read a
comment from my friend and former manager informed me and anyone who scrapbooks
that Archiver’s was closing. I sat
there to let the news sink in and let out a great big, WTF? Yea, it was that kind of night. Archiver’s has been in business for 14 short
years. That is a teen for goodness
sake. I should have known this when my
hourly salary stopped at $8.15 and I was cut down from 35-40 to 20 to 4 hours a
week by 2010, but I thought as I had my last hours as an associate on January
17, 2010 they would bounce back. I
should have known this when the Mall of America location closed in July 2013,
making it the first time Archiver’s did not have a Scrapfest in that location
since it opened. The final “nail in the
coffin” act was when Memory Lab opened in every location. They already had a machine that could print
out pictures for you. It was there
before I started working there, but in a way, I thought the memory lab was a
way of increasing customers who did not have a computer. I will miss this store. Now in my area there will only be three LSS
other than the Michaels/Joann/Hobby Lobby, which I really do not like to shop
at. I will tell you later.
