intellectual property of Joann<\/a> in a deal last year for the fabric retailer that shuttered. Colorful bolts of fabric sit near mannequins modeling what sewing could create (recently, it showed off potential ideas with the Dallas Cowboys). There\u2019s also a \u201cswatch bar\u201d where fans of sewing can touch, see and feel small examples and order them online.\u00a0<\/p>\nOther areas include a \u201ccharmed bar,\u201d which offers personalized jewelry along with another section devoted to three-dimensional printing.<\/p>\n
A larger balloon bar comes with lots of choices and more streamlined access to helium. A \u201ccandy bar\u201d is in the section, letting customers pick out different treats, and another \u201cbar\u201d features favors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Customers will find new services including embroidery and engraving. So, for example, customers can get baseball hats with personalized lettering in a matter of days. \u00a0There are updates to the framing section as well.<\/p>\n
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The renovated Michaels store in Irving.<\/p>\n
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Michaels is making upgrades to the chain’s technology as well. Last week, it\u00a0announced an AI-powered shopping assistant built with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience. The tool is designed to streamline shopping with \u201cpersonalized creative guidance,\u201d it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The company is doing several remodels across the country including places such as the Los Angeles area,\u00a0Boone said, noting that at the Irving site customers will actually find more items to choose from even with the upgrades.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Michaels has attracted millions of new customers in the past year. Sales and earnings are growing, he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are just seeing lots of people, lots of young people, want to get more involved in crafting and creativity, hands-on things, social community, and so we’re leaning into that as well \u2014 and certainly favors Michaels,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The renovated Michaels store in Irving that includes a “Favor Bar.” Brian Womack Michaels is giving local customers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,88032,90636,138166],"class_list":["post-392582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-irving","tag-tp-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}