Today, the Yarn Tent Sale at the Spinrite Factory Outlet kicks off for two weeks in Listowel, Ontario, Canada. It is a yearly event where people lose their minds by ramming their bags of extremely discounted yarn. You can follow them on Facebook only for updates. The sale goes from July 29, 2024, to August 10, 2024. It's earlier this year than normal.
Address
- Yarn Factory Outlet
- 230 Elma Street West
- Listowel, Ontario, Canada
- 1-855-900-3951
Hours are 10 am to 4 pm. Monday to Saturday. Closed Sundays.
There is no online website to shop for the tent, but Spinrite Factory Outlet will sell directly through email orders only. During the tent sale, there is chaos, with thousands of people showing up, and all hands are on deck to help customers restock and get people checked out as fast as possible.
The factory is right behind the tent. The warehouse where yarn is stored is across town and brought back. It's yarn that is overstocked, discontinued, or hasn't found a home.
Stock gets struck as people are handed huge, strong recycle bags to shop with when they get into the tent. I used to be within minutes of the tent sale, but now I am in Nova Scotia, Canada, so I haven't been there for several years.
Recommendations
Bring water with you, as the tent's interior is generally hot. Possibly a sun umbrella if you are waiting outside the tent to get in. Take it easy and keep your hockey stick on the ice.
Stock is replenished throughout the day, and several trailers are to be unloaded during the two-week period. If you can get there on a weekday, you won't hit as many people on the same day. Mid-afternoon is a nice time.
Husband Lost His Wife at Sale
The USA used to sell tents in Washington, North Carolina. Since the acquisition of Coats & Clark in 2019, aka Red Heart Yarns, their factories have been in Albany, Georgia. Manufacturing was moved to Albany, Georgia. North Carolina's plant is now just a storage hub for Yarnspirations brands in transit to retailers. Due to logistics, the tent sale has not returned to Washington, North Carolina.
Yarns that are liquidated for clearance will usually end up in a dollar store or liquidation type of retailer for final clearance. It allows the yarn to get beyond North Carolina and spread throughout the country. There were always a lot of complaints about the tent sale being in the wrong state or too far to drive. This was the solution. It's why people do major hauls on social media in places other than major big-box retailers. Liquidators tend to make products disappear quickly at the right price. It's usually sold at cost or loss to the liquidators and tent sales to clear the inventory out.
Consumers can surprise Yarnspirations when a product generates more interest than intended, and there isn't enough stock. Other times, the product is projected to be well received and isn't. Overstock ends up in the tent sale and clearance.
There is clearance on Yarnspirations.com and in the Clearance Section in the USA and Canadian Online Warehouses.
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Yarnspirations and the Spinrite Factory Outlet are different divisions of Spinrite Yarn and are not connected to each other. Yarnspirations.com pulls inventory from online warehouses in various locations, such as Albany, Georgia, and Mississauga, Ontario. Spinrite Factory Outlet is pulling inventory from the main warehouse that is located (in the same town) in Listowel, Ontario.
Get A Peek At What's Going On Behind the Yarn Tent
This is in the factory behind the tent.
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