My LQS hasn't bought any new fabric for a long time. Everyone is shopping online. Her prices are good. Someone else opened a shop in town when it's only a one shop town. It's a shame. She has new fabric because of an inheritance, but I wonder what she's going to do for more fabric. And a new shop is opening in a town over when it already has a shop. The woman was bragging on another forum about finding a town without a quilt shop and I pm'd her and told her they already had a quilt shop and she wrote me back and said that they sold sewing machines mostly. I told her they had lots of classes and very loyal customers and just received a new line of fabric. She's probably going to run them both into the ground. I refuse to buy fabric or any other quilting items at Walmart and we have no Joann's around. They are helping to close the LQSs. Buy locally and at the quilt shops. Pretty soon they will be a thing of the past and everyone will be complaining that they can't match their fabric online exactly and that Walmart and Joann's fabric is getting even worse because there will be no competition.