Jo-Ann Fabric creates online petition over tariffs

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Mark Gillispie, Associated Press
Updated 3:51 pm CDT, Thursday, August 23, 2018

CLEVELAND (AP) — The national retail chain Jo-Ann Fabric wants its customers to sign an online petition and send letters to members of Congress and to the White House urging exemptions from tariffs on hundreds of products the company imports from China. A company official said Thursday that without the exemptions, Jo-Ann customers would "immediately suffer the consequences of these goods being taxed" when the company is forced to raise prices.

Amanda Hayes, a spokeswoman for the Hudson, Ohio-based retailer, said more than 20,000 people have signed the petition since it went online Monday. The biggest "hit" for the 25-percent tariffs, she said, would be fabrics, fleece and yarn the privately-held company sells online and at its 870 retail stores.

"These are the components we sell in our stores that people purchase and make things that are made in America," she said.

Hayes estimated that around 20 percent of Jo-Ann's customers are small business owners and charitable organizations that buy material from the company to create handmade products for sale. She added that if those entrepreneurs and charities are forced to raise prices on clothes, blankets, quilts and other items they produce that their customers might opt to buy less expensive imported goods not subject to tariffs imposed during the ongoing trade dispute between China and President Donald Trump's administration.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/JOANN-Fabric-creates-online-petition-over-tariffs-13177564.php

[Freethinker65]

1. Will Hobby Lobby be joining them?

[lamp_shade]

2. I'll sign it. Here's the link to the petition....

https://madeinamericatax.com/

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I signed it. Fabric is unbelievably high priced already. And Don't get

me started on patterns. I can recall when they cost $.75 and now they're $20.

[radical noodle]

4. It's awful

I can buy clothing cheaper than making it. If you buy a lot of patterns, there a BMV club online that's something like $10 per year that gives a big reduction on Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue patterns. They sometimes have sales with patterns less than $5. I never pay retail for patterns anymore.

Here's a link if you want to check it out:
https://voguepatterns.mccall.com/clubbmv

(I'm not spamming... I get nothing from them)

[sinkingfeeling]

5. I only buy patterns when Joann's have them marked down. Sometimes

they have had Mccalls at $1.

[radical noodle]

6. Oh, that's even better!

The fabric is still outrageously high. I dig through the remnants first.

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. They have good sales and coupons though

You can view their ads on their website

https://joann.shoplocal.com/Joann/weeklyad?storeid=2411987#!/promotionmobile?storeid=2411987&languageid=1&pagenumber=1