A.C. Moore: A.C. Moore to lay off nearly 500 employees in South Jersey as it winds down

A.C. Moore, which announced in November that it would be shuttering all of its stores after struggling for years, is laying off nearly 500 employees as it winds down operations. The company filed two separate Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications with the New Jersey Department of Labor indicating that it would lay off 383 people effective Feb. 9 at its headquarters and a distribution center at 130 A.C. Moore Drive in Berlin, N.J. Another 82 employees at a 300,000-square-foot distribution...