This is a huge bummer. A few years ago Joann's seemed like it was doing well. The internet offers a vastly inferior experience if you need to do things like try out fabrics. Either people are crafting less or they are putting up with inferior materials.

One of the big takeaways people need to understand is that inventory costs are eating these businesses alive. To keep a hundred different types of fabric available in hundreds of different stores to sell by the inch is expensive, as is the floor space to do it. On a cost basis you are never going to compete with an online store with one inventory, or a warehouse stores that move products in quantity and don't maintain inventory.