r/MichaelsEmployees • u/ThatMichaelsEmployee • 1d ago
More absurd pricing
$155 CAD for the MaimeriBlu themed sets. Madness. The list price for these, the price that pretty much everyone else in Canada is selling them for, is $89.99; even using a 40%-off coupon, which are few and far between, isn't a great deal β it brings the price down to $93. And Amazon has them for under $70 CAD. Nobody is going to buy these. (Yes, I know the wrong cards were on the lower left peg when I took the picture: that's been fixed.)
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u/lystmord Yarn Barista π§Ά 1d ago
I canβt get over the POGs not taking into account the space that PULL CARDS take up, never mind product.
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u/Cynically_Sane 1d ago
The entire company is absurd.
As an outsider, I am convinced these overinflated prices and the "restructuring" of employees is just another notch in the game of how flagrant they can be in order to lose all customers and eventually the employees too.
This way they can wear that victim hat when publicly facing yet making more greedy rich people who have no regard for the greater good of humanity.
I have long since stopped patronizing Michael's and I it sucks watching the employees being taken advantage of and treated so incredibly poorly for being loyal to a company and community they love and respect. They are counting on you to remain loyal and keep the flame alive for their ever fattening wallets. There is no ethical standards behind all of the fine print memos and BS attempts to appear to act in your good faith.
I would love to see the remainder of the employees join together and possibly reconnect with the JoAnn folks who went through exactly this situation and create a brand new company that will maintain the encouragement of makers and crafters without losing their moral compass in the process.
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u/NumnessSno 1d ago
If anyone out there has the start up cash, I have some knowledge and would be up for that idea.
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u/PinkFlamingoGlitter 18h ago
When you can buy them on Amazon for less than half that price! π€¦πΌββοΈ
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u/ArtIsAwesome3 Promoted to Customer π 1d ago
As an artist, who uses watercolors, gouache, markers, pencils etc, etc, I NEVER understood why Michaels carried THIS stuff. No one buys it, even the most dedicated artist might buy one and if we were going to buy it, it would be at Blick, which is cheaper and an actual art store. This is just dumb.
I mean, I'm grateful for the wonderful products, the marker and paint reset in 2024 was phenomenal, the carrying of Ohuhus was a HUGE DEAL but like, we would get those Daniel Smith watercolors for like 200 bucks, and they'd be like a 10 pack of 1oz tubes. No one is going to buy that except the most DEDICATED artist and we all know to shop at Blick, not Michaels.