Michael's For Sale

Oh, yeah, totally. I think nearly every retail place has employee theft. At my Michaels, the dumpsters were inaccessible, everything went down a chute and got compacted, so no one could throw stuff out and then come get it out later. They also wouldn't let us take home damaged stuff, like torn paper or a torn bag of spilled beads, because otherwise people might break stuff on purpose so they could keep it. It was kind of sad how much usable stuff got thrown away, sometimes just because it was a seasonal item that didn't sell and we had to toss it to make room for the new stuff. If I'd been kept on after the season I was planning to write to the corporate offices about maybe setting up a program where we'd donate that stuff to schools or the YMCA, instead of just throwing it away.

I don't have a Hobby Lobby or JoAnn's near me. JoAnn's is too far out on Long Island to make a trip worthy. If necessary I can go to the Rag Shop in College Point.

Michaels is now located in a part of Queens I wouldn't go to without a tenus shot. So I tend to go to AC Moore.

I remember when I worked at AC Moore over the holiday that management said that they were making a bid for Michaels.

Oh well.

Kate

I don't have a Hobby Lobby or JoAnn's near me. JoAnn's is too far out on Long Island to make a trip worthy. If necessary I can go to the Rag Shop in College Point.

Michaels is now located in a part of Queens I wouldn't go to without a tenus shot. So I tend to go to AC Moore.

I remember when I worked at AC Moore over the holiday that management said that they were making a bid for Michaels.

Oh well.

Kate

Years ago I worked for a hospital that use to give employees and their immediate family free infant formula. The companies would sent it for free by the truckload since the new mothers would usually continue to use that brand if there weren't any problems when they went home. I breastfeed but I got it for my sister. New management came in and some lawyers decided that they were placing themselves at risk should a baby get sick and the employee decided to sue the hospital since they were distributing the formula. From that point on dozens upon dozens of perfectly good cases of infant formula were disposed of every month.

There is a Rag Shop in a neighboring state, maybe a 20 minute drive from here. Do the Rag Shops carry alot of scrapping stuff?

I saw an article about that, I thought it was a done deal.

At my Michael's the Cricut Cartridges are empty boxes. There are a lot of them out but have no cartridges in them. Dorothy in NY

That is one thing about our modern world. People are starving to death and homeless and many other things but we can waste so much. Everything has become disposable including human life. All I suspect in the name of greed. Shame really and sad.

They could have sent the formula to African or some other poor country. But, then that would have cost a couple of dollars. Doesn't matter it could have saved lives, babies, children and even adults.

Robert

I can see some shoplifter stealing them left and right only to get home with empty boxes. I could also seem them trying to return them and claim they were empty and they were ripped off.

Robert

Too funny Robert!

Heck they could have donated it to a shelter in their community, even if it meant having the home sign some sort of release.

At the department store here in our small town someone opened every package of boys underwear (just in sizes 14 and 16) and shoplifted all of the colored boys boxer that were included in the briefs package as freebies. I couldn't believe they took underwear....... Sandy

The formula companies themselves forbid the donation of their products, they are required to dispose of whatever is not used. How it worked was you went to the kitchen on Monday or Thursday morning where there were cases against the wall in the storeroom that were to be disposed of and you took a case "from out of the trash".

I remember about 15 years ago we had about 40 fully grown pigs in the lab. The pigs were sedated and the doctors practiced performing laparoscopic cholecystectomies on them. Afterwards they were killed and then shipped off to be cremated. I couldn't believe that all that meat was going to be wasted with all the hungry people in the world. Again they couldn't take the chance that someone would get sick and sue them. The management was already holding their breath in case some animal rights group would find out and cause the hospital a PR nightmare. Here in the US people will sue for almost anything and there seems to be shortage of lawyers willing to oblige them. It's a shame but that's how it is today.

Freaky. I don't want to know what gets stolen from adult book stores... eeeewwwwww!

Robert

I do use them for all of my framing. I rarely sb shop in there though. They just don't have much selection. Oh yeah, I do like their Christmas village stuff too. I didn't read the article but it doesn't sound too good to me. Wonder whatever happened w/ the ACMoore rumors. Maybe they couldn't come up w/ billions.

Katrina in KS