At the Eleanor Burns/Quilt in a Day stores at the Paducah Quilt Show this year - they had 4 locations in the city - the gals ALL tore the fabric - snipped it first - then tore. The "cutter" told us that they could not stand there all day and cut the fabric or use a rotary cutter as it would kill their hands, etc. Believe me - they had lines 10 deep at all of their locations - gals with as many bolts in their arms as they could carry. No carts though. They did have tables that you could put your fabric on and there were rocks/gravel on the floors of the barn and they had signs up that said to put a rock on top of your fabric to "save it" - LOL - very rustic.