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In reply to the discussion: Joann Fabrics and Crafts files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy [View all]Silver Gaia
(4,552 posts)24. That is how retail has been run for as long as I can remember,
and I can remember working in retail in the 70s. Maximum hours anyone but management could get was 35 hours, and that was if you were a department head or a supervisor. Floor clerks and cashiers were lucky to get 20 or 25 hours a week.
Most of the time, in a department store, only men were promoted into management. Women's clothing stores had women managers, but men didn't work in those stores.
I worked in retail on and off for maybe 20 years and it was always like that. I usually enjoyed the work, but the pay was always shit.
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I would never order fabric online. I want to feel and weigh it with my hands.
sinkingfeeling
Mar 19
#43
EXACTLY!!! My mom taught me how to sew from childhood and I LOVED Joann's...THAT being said
The_REAL_Ecumenist
Mar 19
#27