Our Walmart had a large fabric dept. then reorganized the store and significantly reduced the square footage allocated to sewing and crafts, including increasing cheap precuts and reducing bolts choices. Since then, they have reduced the precuts and upgraded the quality and space allocated to bolts.
The fabric dept. is now organized into a quilting section on one row of shelves and a separate section for novelty fabrics. Checked yesterday and a lot of the quilting fabrics are good quality -- price also reflects that upgrade in quality, which is fine with me.
We have a lot of quilters and quilt guilds in this area, so I guess my local Walmart heard the customers and reevaluated how to best serve the area. Other Walmarts in this area are not doing likewise.