Every so often this rumor keeps popping up, I'd say for about 5 years. Every time I go to my Walmart I ask, and they laugh and say not hardly, they keep getting in shipments and are constantly putting some on the shelves. They even did a remodel and I held my breath but fabric never left. In the new Walmarts that open they are not putting in the fabric area. My friend and I check it out every time we hear a new store has gone in. For a major city, fabric stores are getting scarce. Hancocks are all gone, Joann has closed most in the inner city, some left farther out. There are some LQS but I can not afford the prices.