I'm with Fabaddict, this rumor has been going around for years. Someone probably heard a person say, Joanne's should take over Wal Mart's fabric department.................and you remember the game Gossip? Wal Mart found out when they scrapped the fabric dept., they lost a large base of their customers. So it really was all about the money, in order to draw women back to the store, they had to bring in fabric and crafts again. It's the only reason I went to Wal Mart, then perhaps I'd pick up something on the way out. They have nothing I can't find someplace else.