The closest LQS we have is about 30 minutes from here and worth going to. They have been in business for 38 years. They have excellent quality fabrics from $5.95 up to $10.95 from what I have seen. They have continously a .98 cent table, 1.98 table and a 2.98 table which houses fabrics they move from the shelves to make room for new fabric.
We have no LQS in our town and only place to buy fabric is Walmart and quality is not that great. Walmarts fabrics are from $4.95 to $8.95 a yard and that $4.95 a yard is so flimsy you can see right though it. I'd just as soon go to the LQS 30 minutes away and pay a dollar more a yard and get a much higher fiber count than that flimsy stuff. Yes Walmart has a handful of $1.50 to $2.50 a yd but it's the flimsy stuff they have at $4.95 yd they could not sell. There fat quarters are also flimsy at our local Walmart however I can go in the same town the LQS is and that Walmart has a much higher quality fat quarters for $1.47 a FQ which I do buy if I find colors I like but there bolt fabrics, what there is left after they renovated, is the same as my local Walmart and not worth buying.
At our LQS if I see new bolts that come in that I just must have I am willing to shell out $5.95 to 7.95 a yard for it and they are nice enough to email me when they load up the 1.98 or 2.98 table which is usually when they get new fabrics in.
For me it is worth the trip and really not a big deal to go 30-35 minutes to find fabric quality I want.
Now going north to Savannah they have hancock's, joann's which for me is about an hour away and I seldom go there not because of it being further but because there fabrics are not much better quality than Walmarts and costs more than what the LQS is 30 minutes away south of me.
As the saying goes you get what you pay for is very true regarding fabrics.