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Crafts retailer Joann will shut all remaining shops by the top of the week.
A spokesperson for GA Group, which took management of Joann after it filed for chapter safety in January, confirmed to FOX Enterprise on Wednesday that Joann places nonetheless at present open will shut their doorways by the top of Might. The variety of Joann places closing by Might 31 totals over 440. Others have already shuttered, the spokesperson stated.
After gaining management, GA Group began “going-out-of-business” gross sales in any respect Joann shops because it began winding down the retailer’s operations.
A “retailer closing” signal displayed outdoors a Joann retailer in Savannah, Georgia, on April 12, 2025. (Parker Puls/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
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GA Group’s Tim Shilling stated on the time that its precedence was to “guarantee an orderly wind-down of the retailer’s operations whereas offering clients with distinctive financial savings on their favourite crafting and residential decor merchandise.”
The variety of Joann places closing by Might 31 totals greater than 440, whereas others have already shuttered. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
The corporate has been conducting closing gross sales at Joann places since early March, with Joann’s web site on Wednesday exhibiting the shops are providing 70%-90% reductions on merchandise.
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Forward of the remaining retailer closures, clients can solely purchase merchandise from Joann at bodily places. It stopped taking present playing cards in late February.
The closures have been earlier reported by USA As we speak.
Prospects can solely purchase merchandise from Joann at bodily places. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
The crafts retailer’s chapter submitting in mid-January marked its second in as a few years.
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Joann stated in late February that it “made each potential effort to pursue a extra favorable final result that might hold the corporate in enterprise.”
“We deeply admire our devoted Crew Members, our clients and communities throughout the nation for his or her unwavering help for greater than 80 years,” it stated.