Ac More Arts and Crafts Locations in Suffolk County Ny

WINSLOW — A.C. Moore has announced plans to "exit retail operations" and shed its chain of more than 145 arts-and-crafts stores.

"Unfortunately, given the headwinds facing many retailers in today'due south environment, it made information technology very hard for us to operate and compete on a national level," Anthony Piperno, the chain's CEO, said Mon.

"Plans for closing specific A.C. Moore locations volition be shared in the upcoming weeks on our website," Piperno said in a statement.

He said the house has stopped accepting online orders, but will ship "any previously placed orders in the ordinary class."

More:Gauge advances overtime lawsuit for Burlington employees

More:Lord + Taylor starts store-closing sale at Moorestown Mall

An manufacture giant, The Michaels Cos. Inc., will assume leases for up to twoscore stores and for A.C. Moore's East Coast distribution facility in Winslow, the argument said.

"We are looking forward to re-opening these stores under the Michaels name in 2020," said Michaels CEO Marking Cosby.

The Michaels concatenation, with more than i,260 stores, describes itself as North America's "largest specialty provider of arts, crafts (and related products)."

Piperno called A.C. Moore's retreat from retail "a difficult decision for us," Just he asserted it was "the best pick for our employees, customers, vendors, landlords, and other fundamental stakeholders."

The chain'southward parent company, Nicole Crafts, said it's retained Boston-based Gordon Brothers "to shut the A.C. Moore stores as office of a broader strategic plan."

It said Matthew Pascucci of Mackinac Partners would serve every bit "chief restructuring officer of A.C. Moore to aid in this try."

Mackinac's website says Pascucci has advised "distressed or underperforming companies in a wide range of industries."

A.C. Moore, a family unit-owned firm, opened its outset store in Moorestown in 1985. It currently employs more than 5,000 workers in shops along from Maine to Florida.

The visitor besides has offices and distribution centers in Moorestown, Chicago and China.

A.C. Moore has made efforts to boost its performance in contempo years — acquiring one e-commerce firm and investing in another in November 2017, for example.

The company last year launched its start pocket-size-format store in Haddon Township.

Monday'due south announcement came a piddling more than than a calendar month after another Southward Jersey retailer, Moorestown-based Destination Maternity, appear plans to close 183 stores during bankruptcy proceedings.

The maternity-apparel concatenation, which had 937 retail sites in Baronial, said it would seek a buyer while in defalcation.

A.C. Moore's New Jersey stores include:

• Deptford Plaza, 1120 Hurffville Road, Deptford
• Westmont Plaza, 640 Westward Cuthbert Blvd, Haddon Township
• Cross Keys Plaza, 141 Tuckahoe Road, Sewell
• East Gate Shopping Middle, 1190 Nixon Drive, Mount Laurel
• Cedar Hill Shopping Center, 152 Route 73, Voorhees
• Sussex Canton Mall, 17 Hampton House Road, Newton
• Hamilton Plaza, 1245 NJ-33, Hamilton Township
• English Creek Shopping Center, 3003 English Creek Avenue, Egg Harbor
• Watchung Square, 1515 Route 22 West, Watchung
• Mid State Mall, 314 Pike eighteen Northward, Due east Brunswick
• All-time Buy Shopping Center, vii U.S. Route 9, Manalapan Township
• Aviation Plaza Shopping Centre, 641 W Edgar Rd, Linden
• Styretowne Plaza Shopping Center, 1069 Bloomfield Ave, Clifton
• Bay Harbor Plaza, 55 Brick Blvd., Brick
• Shrewsbury Plaza Shopping Center, 1030 Road 35, Shrewsbury
• Paramus Place, 165 West Route 4, Paramus
• Allaire Plaza, 1933 NJ-35, Wall Township
• Seaview Square, 2325 State Road 66, Ocean Township

New York A.C. Moore stores include:

• Rockland Center, 165 Rockland Heart, Nanuet
• Alpine Shopping Center, 1404 RT nine, Wappingers Falls
• Staples Plaza, 3333 Crompond Route, Yorktown Heights
• Clocktower Place, 157 Glen Cove Route, Carle Identify
• New Loudon Shopping Eye, 873 New Loudon Rd., Latham
• Plainedge Shopping Centre, 3988 Hempstead Tpk, Bethpage
• Wilton Square, 3037 Road l, Saratoga Springs
• Sun Vet Mall, 5801 Sunrise Highway, Holbrook
• College Plaza, 17 College Plaza, Selden
• Mckinley Plaza, 3670 McKinley Parkway, Blasdell
• Auburn Plaza, 217 Grant Avenue, Auburn
• Town Square Mall, 2433 Vestal Pkwy Eastward, Vestal
• Marketfair North Shopping Center, 4124 Route 31, Clay
• Dunning Farms Shopping Eye, 88 Dunning Road, Middletown
• Jay Scutti Plaza North, 300 Hylan Drive, Rochester (Shop closing with eighty% off, according to website)

Jim Walsh is a free-range reporter who's been roaming around South Bailiwick of jersey for decades. His interests include crime, the courts, economic development and being first with breaking news. Reach him at jwalsh@gannettnj.com or look for him in traffic.

Help support local journalism with a Courier-Postal service subscription.

More:2 confront prison afterward setting a sleeping man on fire

More than:Ii men, ages 18 and 92, killed in crash on Route 72 in Pinelands

More:NJ Supreme Court to hear appeal in Tanger Outlets murder case

More:Camden County plans new use for old Bradlees store in Stratford

myersaffeateephy.blogspot.com

Source: https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2019/11/25/a-c-moore-closing-stores-michaels-arts-and-crafts/4303500002/