THe Quilt Scene? Really???
I was there last year and was really surprised at how small, and uninteresting, the inventory was.
It seems to me, over and over, that a store takes on a dealership as an answer to slagging sales. The profit on one machine equals a LOT of FQ's. And you immediately notice the decline in the inventory. Same thing happened to the Delray Beach store. The Jupiter store also has less than half the fabric they used to, but those machines are taking up more and more space. The Jam Patch, which I really, really liked, is also closing their doors (but they're going out on top).
So if one is not in the market for a new machine - and I'm not (maybe a foot or some bobbins now and then) - there really is no incentive to stop by the shop.
I might just as well buy fabric online. Which I do. And then the owner complains that I'm not supporting the store.
But you've got the same bolts that were here 3 months ago. And no new ones. So what's the point?
It's a vicious cycle. Sad.