Hobby Lobby, Michaels, and Joann Fabrics insist craft stores are 'essential' in a ploy to stay open during the coronavirus outbreak — and it shows how inconsistent state and corporate policies are threatening public health

5:31am PDT - March 27th, 2020    hobby lobby stores closing - Business Insider

Craft stores like Hobby Lobby, Michaels, and Joann Fabrics are fighting to stay open in states with more lenient definitions of "essential" business, highlighting troubling inconsistencies in the US approach to curbing the coronavirus outbreak. Though craft s…