my LQS charges $20 to join their exclusive "club" where you get 20% off on a very specific day each month. Usually days that I cannot get there. When I do go in, since I am not in their "club" they pay me no attention. Most the time I don't buy much if anything because they are up to $12 a yard, so I really have to love a pattern to get it or really can't find it elsewhere..... I rarely visit at all anymore.