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wdwfan4ver

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StarWarsGirl said:
Ah, but did you actually stay at Port Orleans Riverside when it was called Dixie Landings? I did.
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3 of My aunts on my mom's side stayed at Dixie Landing over 30 years ago. I looked at parts of Dixie Landing including the Food Court back when my parents decided to look at Dixie Landings while staying at what is now the French Quarter.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
I think every generation that came down the pike goes through that phase -- including us! ;)
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Nope. We’re gonna’ agree to disagree on that, I guess. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t complainin’ about stuff like that ‘til I was in my mid 50’s, or so.
People complainin’ about feelin’/bein’ old in their 30’s, or less, is a joke…!!!!! :hilarious:
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
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rshell68 said:

Now all stores 😭 are closing
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FutureCEO said:
Never been in a store. I have no idea what they sell besides fabric stuff. But online shopping is destroying everything. And yes, I do buy online because I can get better products than places sell here. There's only big retailers here anyway.
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Figgy1 said:
:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry: Management has been horrible for several years, since they were bought out :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
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I just read the SEC 10K filing from 2023 (last one I could find). And...Figgy has it right. It's not about online shopping or anything. They appear to have done really well during Covid (probably because people got really into crafting) borrowed a bunch of money, and then had no plan for how they were going to use or pay back that money. Then their first major loan came due in 2024, and they couldn't pay it back.

Reading through it, I'm like "did you have a strategy? At all? Or were you throwing stuff at the wall hoping something would stick?" 😑
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
StarWarsGirl said:
I just read the SEC 10K filing from 2023 (last one I could find). And...Figgy has it right. It's not about online shopping or anything. They appear to have done really well during Covid (probably because people got really into crafting) borrowed a bunch of money, and then had no plan for how they were going to use or pay back that money. Then their first major loan came due in 2024, and they couldn't pay it back.

Reading through it, I'm like "did you have a strategy? At all? Or were you throwing stuff at the wall hoping something would stick?" 😑
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Adding to this...for comparison's sake, I pulled up the one for Michael's, (which I could only get for 2020 because they were acquired by a private equity firm...boo...anyway...)

Michael's reads like "we purchased this company and branded them as Michaels, we offer this unique service, we own these brands that customers can only get here, we're offering these services for online shoppers, we partnered with these brands..."

JoAnn's SEC reads like "We do sewing...we have always done sewing...our customers like sewing..."

It's completely evident one company knew what they were doing and had a strategy...and the other did not.
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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StarWarsGirl said:
Adding to this...for comparison's sake, I pulled up the one for Michael's, (which I could only get for 2020 because they were acquired by a private equity firm...boo...anyway...)

Michael's reads like "we purchased this company and branded them as Michaels, we offer this unique service, we own these brands that customers can only get here, we're offering these services for online shoppers, we partnered with these brands..."

JoAnn's SEC reads like "We do sewing...we have always done sewing...our customers like sewing..."

It's completely evident one company knew what they were doing and had a strategy...and the other did not.
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We do sewing but have no clue what sewing is;) I've seen things left on the shelf over the past 7ish years, not just a bit of this and that at the end of the season but whole lines of products. The worst was influencer carp "by" people who had no clue about sewing/crafting. The cosplay stuff curated by an actual cosplayer/cosplay designer was decent and seemed to have sold well, yarn unless on sale was overpriced even compared to small local specialty shops, and don't get me started on fleece, there was just way too much and some of horrid quality, all overpriced except when on sale. Yes, I'm complaining about fleece and I live in fleece 9 months of the year so that says something. I could write pages and pages about the awful decisions they've made. It's been 2 years since I've done real shopping there, I may have grabbed a few things since then
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
Figgy1 said:
We do sewing but have no clue what sewing is;) I've seen things left on the shelf over the past 7ish years, not just a bit of this and that at the end of the season but whole lines of products. The worst was influencer carp "by" people who had no clue about sewing/crafting. The cosplay stuff curated by an actual cosplayer/cosplay designer was decent and seemed to have sold well, yarn unless on sale was overpriced even compared to small local specialty shops, and don't get me started on fleece, there was just way too much and some of horrid quality, all overpriced except when on sale. Yes, I'm complaining about fleece and I live in fleece 9 months of the year so that says something. I could write pages and pages about the awful decisions they've made. It's been 2 years since I've done real shopping there, I may have grabbed a few things since then
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Ours closed more than a year ago. The Michael's was closer (and newer) so I went there. Mom said they were rude the last time she was in JoAnne's and never went back. We rarely need stuff in there because Lord knows we are not talented in that realm. 😂 But it usually is to Michael's.
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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It's going to rain today
Raining Gene Kelly GIF by filmeditor
I hope it washes away the rest of the carp
 

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