Are there other fabric stores in your area? One of the things that really bothers me about Walmart closing their fabric departments is that they ran all the mom-n-pop fabric stores out of business and now folks are left to the internet or travelling for sewing basics.
Ours was remodeled last year and now is less than a third fabric. No more real art supplies either, just row after row of pricey scrapbooking doodads. The cutting table gets so backed up that they put in a mumber machine like you use in delis.