Our town of about 25,000 has a Walmart, had a K-mart, and it closed, now our Alco is closing. It used to carry mill ends of quilting and other fabrics and they were very reasonably priced. I think the beginning of the end was when they closed out the fabric as I bought tons of fabris there. We also had a Ben Franklin and it closed. So now all we have is Walmart and if you want to go anywhere else you will drive 100 miles round trip one direction and more in any other direction. No wonder we order on line so much!