Going Out of Business: Rag Shop

Rag Shop, the popular fabric and crafts store is having a going out of business sale. All items are 20-50% off. Everything from art supplies and yarn to candles and baskets are on sale. Nearby locations in Bergen County are Bergenfield, East Rutherford and Edgewater and in Passaic County in Hawthorne, Wayne and a warehouse store in Totowa.

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[sexy]

Ooooh... yeah! I need some plastic flowers!

[Margie]

Are there any frosted glass Christmas balls left? The ones you carried in the box of nine....??

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[rag shop in the catalina shopping of boynton beach]

I am sorry that the rag shop is going out. but since they got taken over the knew
people don't have any idea what the people need especially in yarns.
I just need the address of rag shop in boynton on congress thank you.
I have been going to the rag shop for 12 years or more,

Hope Kaplowitz

[Cross Stitcher since 1987]

I am so sorry to see Rag Shop stores close. I've shopped in them for 20 years for cross stitching supplies and home decorating items. I always ran in for framing supplies, silk flowers, and they also had toys, games and candy too, for the children.

My children liked the summertime Camp Rags workshops and they made some really nifty craft items we still use around the home.

Years ago, I used to like to go there early on designated Saturday mornings with discount coupons from their flyers that would be stamped at the store entrance, so you could get an even greater discount when you checked out. (Get 30% off if you arrived by 9am, for instance.)

Michael's is further for me, and not as organized as Rag Shop was. Walmart carries many cross stitch supplies, but no one seems to be familiar with specific craft needs and questions there.

My favorite frame shop (that also carried yarn, knitting, and cross stitch supplies) closed a few years ago, due to the owner's husband taking ill. She told me she had a buyer for the shop, but the deal fell through, and the store remains empty to this day.

I'm "only" 49 years old, but I hear myself lately saying that I miss the "old days" when shopping for crafts was fun, relaxing, and you could get immediate help in your favorite stores.

Anyway, I will certainly miss Rag Shop and I'm sure I'm not alone. It really came as a surprise.

[phyllis]

i was totally surprised to hear
the Rag Shop was going out of business.I can't remember a time
when I didn't have to wait on line to pay for purchases.Based
on that,I never thought they would be around for a long time.

[phyllis]

CORRECTION...I thought they would be around for a long time.

[Mary]

I hate to see Rag Shops going out. I was an assistant manager & craft manager in one of their locations many years ago. I really enjoyed helping my customers and teaching the adult & kid craft demos. However, I have been worried about them for the past few years. I don't live in the area anymore, but I have kept up occassionally through the website. I had sent them an e-mail to ask if they would be openning an online store, and they replied that they needed to concentrate on their stores. Well, that was the first sign that things were not good. I had talked with some employees while visiting one time, and they were not ordering from the same suppliers anymore. You really have to be on top of the craft buzz and keep up with not only the hottest trends, but also what your customers want. I can remember stocking craft items that my customers were requesting, even if it wasn't on my list. They used to send the craft managers to meetings in Totowa, and have reps from the craft manufacturers come to teach us new things.

[Mike]

Really good prices at the Rag Shop. Sorry to see them go. Lots of fabric at the Cozy Quilt Shoppe in River Edge however.

[lex]

I'm really sad that the rag shop is closing. Whenever I had a project to do, we would always go to the rag shop to get the many supplies that we needed. They always had just the right stuff. Many of my classmates went there too because I would always see someone that I knew getting supplies. I would also go there to get crotcheing supplies because that is one of my favorite hobbies. They had beautiful yarns for cheap prices. I wish the RagShop didn't have to close.

[JEFF]

I knew when I left the company was doomed ! So much for MR B.

[Omar Jimmy]

A very close friend of mine is Bob Young, a rag shop store manager at Harrisburg store in NJ. I never had his personal or home # or address for a personal reason, I always called him at the store to find out how he was doing, what a wondeful guy. He is like a big brother to me. The last time I saw and spoke with him was about 6 months ago, he never told me Rag shop is going out of business.
If any of you out there where Bob Young is working now, please let me know. I really want to contact him again. I really missed his friendship.

[Sandy Wilt]

I am shocked to see that Rag Shops have closed. I am a great customer and had stocked up for a while and had'nt been there and while going out to shop for materials for two granddaughters little costumes for Halloween I grabbed my $20.00 gift certificate and went to the nearest store only to see it totally empty and gone. I guess there is nothing to do but it makes me so upset since I enjoyed the things I purchased and the prices and now I am stuck with a $20.00 gift certificate and can't use it. Bummer

[verena]

Today my friend and I went from New york city to Norwalk ct to the Rag shop to get some things we need for our crafting but the store was closed.We were very diappointed because we had plans for crafting.

[sheila fuhrmann]

I am very sorry to hear the Rag Shop went out of business. When I lived in FL all the woman who worked there knew me and my kids. After moving to GA there was nothing like it here and now all the close fabric stores are going out of business. The only ones left are Joanns and Hobby Lobby. 30 minutes drive for me at least. I was planning a trip to NJ over the Thanksgiving holiday and the only place I wanted to go was the Rag Shop. I was there Sept 2006 and just fell in love with it all over again. I have been saving up money to go wild in the store. Oh well. Sad to see all the fabric stores close. I still make all my own clothes since because of surgery I need to. But can't find hardly any everyday clothing fabrics in stores now. Sad. I know more and more young people wanting to learn how to sew and they will have to buy fabrics online and never know the pleasure of walking into a store such as the Rag Shop.

[Ivy]

This is so sad. I loved the Rag Shop. I was just telling my husband this the other day: I've been to Michael's and all those other crafts stores but for some reason, going in those stores don't inspire me to create stuff. But when I go to the Rag Shop, I want to buy everything and make all sorts of things.

[Linda Ort]

So sad to see Rag Shoppe leave.....So many of the fabric stores are closing...JoAnn's is okay, but not as "customer friendly" as Rag...Too bad........

[michelle]

when they said no more personal phone service and went automated and i went else where i knew then it was going down hill

[Jeannie]

I always lived right around the corner from the Rag Shop in West Orange. Growing up my mother did not believe in store bought Halloween costumes, and every year we would go and not only pick out the costume and the pattern, but the supplies too. The place was always packed full, ALWAYS. I kinda got nervous when I noticed their fabric area being reduced. A few weeks ago I did a play at my high school, we needed fake flowers and different just things to put around the set [to fill up dead space]. We either had to take a 30 minute drive up Route 10 or go searching through the various dollar stores. I think that was the most annoying thing about the stores closing, I HATE LIFE WITHOUT RAG SHOP! There is some stupid dollar store coming in to the location. I hate it.

[Tayyaba Beg]

I am so SAD on Rag shop closing and dealing with it every day. I was a big customer there. I have 4 handicap kids with lots of needs. I always sew clothes for them and invent things to make things easier for me to handle 4 mentally ill children.
http://www.helpourgirls.com/
I always bought my fabrics, zippers and all the stuff i needed from rag shop. it was really convenient for me. Now there is fabric and craft store near by and i can not travel far leaving my kids. I miss that store every day. I HATE LIFE WITHOUT RAG SHOP TOO! There is some stupid dollar store coming in to the location. Who need an other dollar store. I hate my favorite store is closed.

[Barb Schaumburg]

My Mom used to take us to the Rag Shop on Wagaraw Rd in Hawthorne when I was first starting to sew. It was like a warehouse with tables of fabric as far as I could see. It is one of the fondest memories of my youth and I will miss the stores and the charming sign very much.

[kristy king]

I worked for the Rag Shop in Lacey, NJ for 3 years. It was my first job ever and I worked my way up from cashier to assistant manager. I loved that job so much, from all the crafting supplies we carried to the close connection i had with my co-workers and the returning customers. There isn't a day that doesn't go by that I'm not sad that the Rag Shop had to close. So many of our customers relied on our store for the close location and the coupons and also our employee-customer friendships--now that is gone. I'm telling you, there is nothing worse than seeing my store get picked apart and ravaged by the going-out-of-business sales. So sad :(

[Helen]

I used to shop at the Lacey location all the time. It was the best place for yarn sales! One day I drove by and saw it was closed! I really miss it, too. That location always had great content, courteous and helpful staff and always a sale.

[Jade]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one mourning the loss of the Rag Shop, especially at this time of year!!!! Now I have to go to Michaels on Rt 10 or AC Moore in Clifton. Sometimes I just stopped in to say hi to the ladies who worked there, I ran into one of them a couple of months ago, she was working at Staples (I forget her name) I can't remember anything else being there but the Rag Shop, even when Caldor's was still there. Oh well, I'm just venting -- I'm heartbroken!

[marty kerr]

I sure miss the rag shop. I have looked everywhere for a shop like it none to be found. as far as walmart now the are cutting all craft and material out of their stores. putting in a party section , like we need another party store. oh well i was ready to travel if i had to just to find a rag shop.