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Judge Jenkins from Dallas County just called out Hobby Lobby for staying open and putting profits over people. This was during today’s coronavirus update. I have never heard anything like this.
Judge Jenkins from Dallas County just called out Hobby Lobby for staying open and putting profits over people. This was during today’s coronavirus update. I have never heard anything like this.
I am wondering how this will go down. Recently the Hobby Lobby owner justified keeping his stores open because his wife heard from God that all would be ok. Not an exact rendering of what he said but close. Anyway, will this turn in to a religious freedom thing? Governor Abbott has tried hard to keep churches open by listing them as essential but encouraging finding other ways to worship and fellowship without crowding int a church.
On that basis every business could claim a need to stay open. They all serve people one way or another. Hobby Lobby got greedy is all and their religion does not give them a pass.Hobby Lobby supplies things that will keep people occupied at home while isolating and practicing social distancing. That business should be encouraged and supported.
On that basis every business could claim a need to stay open. They all serve people one way or another. Hobby Lobby got greedy is all and their religion does not give them a pass.
Hobby Lobby supplies things that will keep people occupied at home while isolating and practicing social distancing. That business should be encouraged and supported.
Last I knew Hobby Lobby had not only shut down but they fired all employees.
Vermont if I remember correctlyWhen I go to Walmart, other customers are not buying just food or meds. I see plenty of carts filled with toys and other things I would consider non-essentials. Who's to say what is essential and what is not?
In my State (Vermont), Walmart and any others like them have been ordered to cease sales of regular merchandise. The stores can stay open to sell food and pharmacy items, but nothing else. Hobby Lobby does not sell groceries.When I go to Walmart, other customers are not buying just food or meds. I see plenty of carts filled with toys and other things I would consider non-essentials. Who's to say what is essential and what is not?
They can do it via mail order, nearly everyone else is - they are NOT a vital service like food production or even electrical pole lineman, and I say this as a crafter and former professional weaver.Hobby Lobby supplies things that will keep people occupied at home while isolating and practicing social distancing. That business should be encouraged and supported.
They can do it via mail order, nearly everyone else is - they are NOT a vital service like food production or even electrical pole lineman, and I say this as a crafter and former professional weaver.
There are still plenty of craft supply shops, yarn stores, leatherworking supplies and related companies selling on-line.
There are also plenty of things most people can do with things they have lying around; there's a fad right now among my friends to learn finger weaving which takes a string (any string including kitchen twine) and costs basically nothing.
Is a new pincushion kit or plastic pom-pom maker worth dying form (or killing someone?)....not to mention the poor staff that has to keep going to work, are they wearing full PPE - masks, gloves, and goggles?
If not, is the boss going to pay all potential medical, funeral and even child-support/life insurance for their children if they catch this at work and become sick or die?
Is that a worker's compensation claim or "god's" (little g intended) problem?
Hobby Lobby does not sell anything essential in the midst of a national emergency. The writing was on the wall a month ago that mandatory closures were coming. I went out then and bought what I wanted for summer clothes, what I thought I might need for household items for the next 6 months, got a haircut, got the vehicles inspected early & serviced, and got a lot of my grocery store and pharmacy type shopping done in anticipation of the panic to come. Nobody should have been taken by surprise that most businesses were ordered to close. If I end up needing (or wanting) something I didn't think to buy, then that's on me.I'm hoping to do some comic book art while I have this rare chance, while on leave from my regular, normal, 7:30-4:30 job, and Hobby Lobby is my go-to place for art supplies.
Online ordering has not been an option for me as I have never ordered online, have never put my credit card number or other sensitive personal identifying information into any computer connected to the internet, with the exception of the secure government computers at work (and even then with government encryption). I really don't want to start putting my identity and finances at risk.
Meanwhile, the city where the nearby Hobby Lobby is located is issuing a Stay At Home order effective Monday morning, so the choice has already been made by others who get to decide what is essential. Hope what supplies I already have on hand will be sufficient for the duration.
I stocked up back in January after seeing what was happening in China and then later Italy! I went through my supplies to see what was made overseas and bought any items I would need from those sources first... January is the slow season for most Arts and Crafts stores so most of what I bought had been sitting there awhile already. I warned a couple of close friends, who I thought would listen, to do the same thing and I know they're quite happy they listened now... one is a leather worker and there is now a shortage of leather due to factories in Italy and Spain being shuttered and their entire inventory destroyed due to contamination issues.
Me too. I spent quite a bit at Hobby Lobby in February getting ready for the break in the supply line to show up at the shelves. But there are always things one didn't think of earlier, or unanticipated needs that pop up.
Not true here, either.Nope, not true, at least here locally.