Regular Joann shoppers have seen it coming for some time now.
Empty shelves. Fewer employees. Reduced hours in some locations. Joann filing for bankruptcy last year and the company’s announcement last week that more than half of the fabric and craft stores across the country would be closed did not come as a surprise.
“I went into a Joann ‘ s yesterday, and it literally looked like a tornado had gone through,” an X user named Great Aunt Fermildahyde posted in January . “Piles of merchandise everywhere, but lots of empty shelves. Sale stuff was overflowing a bin and laying about on the floor. I got out of there as fast as I could.”…