I you don't like torn fabric, don't go to the tent sales at Paducah. Fabric is torn not cut. The vendor booths, and quilt shops cut and Hancocks of Paducah cut but not at the back room clearance fabric tables.
What makes me frustrated is the cutter using an old dull pair of scissors or dinged up rotary blade, takes forever to get a cut and then it's all ragged. I asked to speak to the owner at one QS and asked why the fabric cutting table was using lousy cutting tools. She came up close and whispered the employees have to buy their on cutting tools to cut the fabric so they won't steal them. I said oh, well keep your fabric then, if you can't trust the employees you hired to use new cutting tools then I don't need to be shopping here. She's now out of business because she didn't pay her taxes.