Sad to say, but with the retail chains, the bottom line is profit. Your bad, disappointing, frustrating shopping experiences with walmart is happening with other retail stores all across the country last friday i did grocery shopping at food city for my 90 year old mother....had to stand in a check out line for 35 minutes....there were 10 check out lanes, but only two were open, with lines backed up halfway in the store. If i had been shopping for myself, i would have parked the cart and left. My local walmart fabric dept. Has a couple of really nice ladies who know what they are doing --but usually have to go look for them as they have to maintain several other depts they sell tons of fabric...the quilt of the month fabric usually sells out the first day--but despite this, guess we will be losing the fabric by the yard within the next year.