Originally Posted by OzarksGma
The reason some LQS can mark their fabric at 1/2 price is because they buy closeouts. The $10 per yard fabrics are the new collections coming out. If you are willing to wait and take the chance that some of the fabrics you like will be marked down and closed out you might be lucky enough to be able to find them. Usually if you like the fabrics, so do a lot of others, this usually makes that fabric sell out and there are no closeouts to be purchased for markdowns.
You are so right!! My store buys new collections, but if the collections are good, I'm always on the lookout for "leftovers" that do make it to the closeout sellers. And guess what? The best prints, the "feature designs", almost *never* have goods left over. It's the coordinates that are left, and usually the ones that didn't work well in the first place.