Originally Posted by
RosaSharon
I had a strange observation. My nearby Walmart Coats and Clark thread came on one of those spools with that little slit that caused me lots of headaches too. However, when I travel a distance to JoAnns, the Coats and Clark spools had the end cap. Strange....I wondered if C&C had a zillion of those spools with the slits in their store room and are trying to use them up at Walmarts, or are they just cheaper to make so Walmart gets them.
Yes, I believe that is the case. The new C&C spools don't have those slits. I'm a little surprised that so many of those are still being sold. It has been a few years since I commented that C&C had finally designed a spool without those slits.