I worked at Wal-M. for almost 15 yrs. My experience with them as a company is that they put out taking this or that out of the stores, then reverse their decision.
I believe that as long as sales are good in a store, they will keep the dept. They might reduce the size, but basics of quilting/sewing will be there, from my experience.
They threatened to take our fabric dept. out here. We are a rural community of about 25,000. We signed petitions to not remove it. There were thousands of names on the petitions, and we will have the dept.
I have gone more and more to online fabric shopping. The quilt fabric stores around here are closing rapidly. I believe it is due to the online sales. Lots of good results with them, for me, anyway.
Mariah.