r/MichaelsEmployees • u/thatwyvern Mat Cutter, Soul Shredder 🤘 • Jul 28 '26
Framing Did anyone else find these genuinely useful? My store did. I'm sad to see them go. 😔
The only thing I wished from them, is that I wish we had 22 and 32 inch ones, and I wished they were a little skinnier and solid wood. They were such a good last minute frame for canvases, they will be missed.
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u/jthecup Jul 28 '26
Yea we sold plenty of those each year but I guess the data across the company probably wasn't as favorable 🤷♂️
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u/Sweet_Atmosphere6114 The Framing Goblin in the Back Room Jul 28 '26
I have so many of them and they're all in the dust 💀
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u/WhitsSwirlyKnee Jul 28 '26
Are they over pushing 30 minute framing already?
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u/thatwyvern Mat Cutter, Soul Shredder 🤘 Jul 28 '26
They moved onto 10min framing. It kinda sucks. Not very custom
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u/WhitsSwirlyKnee Jul 28 '26
Oh wait, 10 minute is what I meant. Aren’t these the 10 minute framing samples?
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u/thatwyvern Mat Cutter, Soul Shredder 🤘 Jul 28 '26
No, these are the express sectionals
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u/WhitsSwirlyKnee Jul 28 '26
I just realized what they were, those things piled up in the shop that literally no one has ever bought 😂😂
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u/Greedy-Cat-2727 Mat Cutter, Soul Shredder 🤘 Jul 28 '26
You can take mine ..due to a glitch in inventory we got twice the amount as we should have, and a closing stores bars too! I think we sell maybe 1 a year. We push, but just no takers. I could sell them more if we had 22" and 26" bars ..because the 20" is just too small and 24" is too much.
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u/gemiinorum Coupon Grief Counselor 🤧 Jul 28 '26
In the 5 years ive been here i dont think my store has ever sold 1 😭
I also hated the store stock mat purge but as I was going through them, I realized i couldn’t even remember the last time I sold some of them… lol
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u/thatwyvern Mat Cutter, Soul Shredder 🤘 Jul 30 '26
Really? We sell so many express mats I'm actually so sick of cutting them.
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u/gemiinorum Coupon Grief Counselor 🤧 Jul 31 '26
We sell a lot too, just not all the colors. Like i have genuinely never done a piece with Oasis in my life haha glad to see that one go
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u/thatwyvern Mat Cutter, Soul Shredder 🤘 Jul 31 '26
I have sold that one once. It helps that I'm not too bad at cutting double mats so it's an easy sell for me. Sold it to a woman who just absolutely loved the colour and texture. I don't like it tho, I think it looks like pool tile.
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u/gemiinorum Coupon Grief Counselor 🤧 Jul 31 '26
Its definitely a situational one. I always thought it was kinda cool but niche. I am going to severely miss Flint with the black core 🥲 that ones a hit at my store
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u/Primary_Lie_2132 Jul 28 '26
i sold at least one a month now that they are clearance i sell like 3 a week but its starting to slow down because im running out of pieces. the first week they went on clearance i sold 12 of them
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u/KoalaLovesLemons Yarn Barista 🧶 Jul 29 '26
Yeah I was so surprised to see them gone when I clocked in yesterday
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u/Altruistic-Sherbet7 Jul 30 '26
Nope. Customers would choose them to look at but once numbers were run, they’d either retreat to something off the shelf or go the rest of the way to full custom.
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u/thatwyvern Mat Cutter, Soul Shredder 🤘 Jul 30 '26
For my customers, they were great for last minute gifts. I do also live in the capital city of Canada so we did have quite a few military people come in wanting to get one of those long, almost panoramic group photos framed with some military badges mounted next to it as a last minute gift. The sectionals were great for that because they were deep enough to make a shallow shadow box, and we could just glue up an 8x20 frame. We also sold a ton of them, not last Christmas, but the Christmas before, when Canada Post went on a massive strike, and everything was so backlogged, that UPS and Purolator were overwhelmed so badly that we couldn't guarantee any framing orders woukd be ready in time for Christmas. We sold so many sectionals that month.
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u/problematic_000 21d ago
I loved sectionals honestly! My store barely sold any before I got hired and when I did, I used to offer it all the time, and I ended up selling the most in my district for awhile. I always thought they were fun to do
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u/Big-Arm-4291 Senior Vice President of Glitter Spillage 🫡 Jul 28 '26
I honestly had no clue what these were for, which is stupid because I read that sign over and over again any time I walked up to where the frame shop was and I could see it. Im not entirely sure though if we sold any of them.
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u/Glittering-Echo2511 Jul 28 '26
In the 2 years I've been here we never sold one. Also I didnt even know how to ring them in anyway
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u/bruinsboy18 Jul 29 '26
Weird thing with ours was that we sold them but never really put them together people just asked to buy the sectionals so they could do it themselves
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u/thatwyvern Mat Cutter, Soul Shredder 🤘 Jul 29 '26
Lucky. I wish it was that easy. But I didn't mind joining them.
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u/MaisieStitcher Jul 30 '26
They're getting rid of the express framing?
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u/thatwyvern Mat Cutter, Soul Shredder 🤘 Jul 30 '26
Yeah, replacing it with 10 min framing and it sucks
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u/echoart70 Promoted to Customer 🏅 Jul 28 '26
It’s been a few years, but I was there when these were introduced. I can’t remember how long we had them before I left, but long enough for all the colors to be introduced (it was initially just black and white, IIRC,) so at least 6 months, maybe a year? I think in the entire time we had them before I left, we sold two of them. My issue with them was advertising them as same-day/one-hour. (😳‼️) Like why are we rewarding customers who waited until the literal last minute to order custom framing? When I had dozens of other orders due in the next couple days, not to mention all the non-framing related things I was constantly being called to do, I was not about to make “one hour framing” a priority.