T G & Y
Does anyone remember the old T G & Y stores? I sure do, and I am reminded of how much I do miss our old TG&Y store every time I go to Elkin! My first experience with a T G &Y was in Kissimmee, Florida in 1971. Believe it or not, I had no fabric stash in those days...my daughter was just a baby, and we lived on a very low budget. T G & Y met our needs perfectly. (NO walmarts in those days). When we moved to this area in l981, there was a store here, and we loved going there!! When I shop at the Goodwill store, sometimes I still find yarn from T G & Y in a big bag of yarn I love to purchase. These days, most of my dollars for household items and a lot of canned goods goes to Dollar General. Even though they carry a lot of products made in China, and you have to be very careful (enough said). Thank God it is Friday...God Bless your weekend!
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2 comments:
TG&Y is new for me. It must be an eastern chain? I do remember going to Woolworths! I hope you have a blessed weekend!
Oh, how I miss those stores! I was a store manager for TG&Y in the 80s and early 90s. The stores were slower paced and very family oriented. My first store was Greensburg, Indiana. I started there while I was in high school. I got promoted to assistant manager and moved to Salem, Indiana. McCrory bought the stores and hundreds were shut down in 1986. We spent 1986 remodeling most of the remaining 700 stores. The family center stores were 30,000 square feet and larger were reset to 15,000 -20,000 square foot layouts. Sales volumes were cut in half, leaving profitable TG&Ys to lose profit and more had to close. It was a very sad time with hundreds of great people losing their jobs. We continued closing stores until 1991 when Mc Crory filed bankruptcy. I was in Troy, Ohio running a McCrorys. A large Walmart had opened along the interstate and hurt our sales volume by 15 percent. I transferred to Chicago and the company was struggling to get any merchandise. Counters were empty and customers were finding new retailers. Stores were slowly closed as their leases expired. The last McCrorys closed in Indiana in 1996.
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