JoAnn,I too have been in touch with Wal-Marts main offices. All you ever get is run around about customer demand is down. Alot of the problems, to do with customer demand, is Wal-Mart has cut their quality of fabrics.Plus some of the ones in control are strictly city people and they don't realise just how many women do still sew.Besides most of these decisions are made by men.The young ones have changed so much since Sam Walton died and it hasn't been for the best.Sam was a country man and understood what country people wanted.That is why he refused to buy so much forgein imports. Most of the Wal-Mart stores are hurting and that's because they got to involved with the Sam type stores. They fail to realise these are 2 differant type store and shouls be ran differantly.