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RetailDive ^ | 10/02/2023 | Cara Salpini

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’ve seen well equipped “Maker” places come and go in Silicon Valley and in North Idaho. The Maker Fair in San Mateo is always on hard times and comes and goes. Seems to be a niche market where it’s hard to build a sustainable business.

I started making homemade sourdough bread a couple months ago (an offshoot of making great homemade pizza dough). I like using boutique flour brands from small family owned mills, but you cannot find their flours in any store. Thank goodness for web ordering and mail order (well, UPS-order and Fed-Ex order).

[Dr. Sivana]

I remember my grandmother bought fabric to sew clothing for the family at five and dime type stores in the 1950’s and 60’s.

Same here ('60s and early '70s). We had Woolworth, Pilgrim Mills, Bluestones and WT Grant. Most boring place a five year old boy can be. At least Bluestones had lollipops.

My wife misses Hancock, and claims that the quality of fabric at Jo-Anne is horrible. Here in Phoenix we have 35th Avenue Sew-Vac, and that has been okay.

[Adder]

We used to shop Big Lots almost weekly but they have changed so dramatically that we rarely go.

Their brand selection changed to off brands from God knows where and their prices seem to be no better than Walmart so why go?

[SamAdams76]

RiteAid sells the cheapest beer at Grand Central (for the train ride home). Will be sorry to see them go.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Fabrics from China are risky anytime but buying them on-line is down right asking to be poisoned.

Not true at all. China makes the best fabric in the world...and the worst, depending on what the customer is willing to pay. If a company is buying cheap clothes, say, for the Latin American market, maybe they cut corners and look for some cheap Chinese factory with the lowest price - regardless of what petroleum-smelling plastic-feeling textiles they are using. But down the street. another Chinese factory is making ultra high-end natural fiber fabrics for Fendi.

Like I said, you have to know what you are looking for. Fabric Depot wouldn't stay in business very long if what they re-sell in the USA was poisoning consumers. It's the same with clothes, consumer electronics, and almost everything else available online.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It is very true even if the Chi-Com pushers do not want to admit it.

Everything from China is either horribly flawed or poisoned.

They even do it to their own people so they will for sure do it to you.

Toothpaste, dog food, books, Tic Tok, everything out of China is poison.