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I got the same one. Twice!
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I've decided several options for no fabric in my Wally in the spring.
I will now only consider quilts I can make from my stash. (At 82 years of experience, I have a STASH) I will start a swap club in my ASG I will purchase any "I can't find it anywhere else" on the internet. This plan should really wake up the old creative juices and test my abilities to make do or do without. I can't afford to do it their way but I will never stop sewing and quilting. |
We must have all got the same form letter. I hope they are sorry when they take the fabric from their store. I grocery shop there because of the fabric. There is nother grocery store that I like better right around the corner but I shop Walmart for the fabric.
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I got the exact same reply to my email. :evil: I will probably quit Walmart completely. The one I go to does have fabric, but it never changes, except for some cheap seasonal fabrics.
The prices are going up more and more. I have decided to just do most of my grocery shopping elsewhere. And as for fabric, I have found some awesome prices on brand name fabrics online. I don't mind if it is last years design. I am always way behind in making a quilt anyway. :mrgreen: |
They can "celebrate" without me! When our fabric area gets discontinued, I will "discontinue" shopping there. As someone else said, lots of discount places carry plates and streamers AND they are cheaper.
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My Wal Mart is not going to make the Celebrations department bigger, but the Electronic department.
I think it makes them more $$$$$$. Sad to hear! |
Hello from Florida this is my firt post!
My Wal Mart will expand their Electronic department. I think it makes them more $$$$$$$. Sad to hear. |
Originally Posted by Lori S
I have been diligient in trying to avoid Walmart at all costs, because of what it does to the local businesses . These are businesses owned by comunity members who's profits will be spent in the comunity. And owners are present to listen and answer questions. Additionally I am old enough to remember that when Walmart first started national presence ... their big claim was that everthing in the store was AMERICAN MADE. This was silently abandoned once they had made them selves the giant retailer.
It is not that hard where I live to shop elsewhere, and get good prices. There is alot of competition for consumer dollars here. It is sad to see what Walmart has done to some rural areas local businesses. It is even more regretful that once the local businesses are gone due to Walmarts presence, they abandon the offerings that may not have been as profitable as others , with no regard to the customers who had come to depend on them. Well I am sorry for the soap box... but somethings just make me mad. |
I got the very same E-mail-word for word- today and no feeling to it. The economy going the way it has won't be able to quilt much longer, can't give away the quilts I try to sell. Don't mind saying so myself the look pretty good.
But, back to W-mart Fabric, felt it was just as good as the $3.99-5.99 fabric at Jo-ann's. Wal-mart isn't like it use to be. :thumbup: |
Most of you are lucky! you have somewhere else to shop!
In our county we have a few very small grocery/convience stores and giant eagle(which is high priced),a dollar tree and a dollar general! So walmart gets the business! we don't have anywhere else to buy food,clothes,pet food etc. so they get my day to day business but we go 45 miles to a larger area to shop on weekends. |
Everyone of us who purchase fabric from Wal-mart needs to start calling them at 1-800-Wal-Mart, enough people call...
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The only improvement I saw was in the sheets - better tpc
Other than that, I can't find anything except copy paper and I have enough of that. They are full of baloney and that isn't good either. |
WalMart - "WHATEVER"!
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Originally Posted by tula
I found out yesterday that one of the reasons they are getting rid of the fabric dept. is that Walmart has bought our Joanns. I had no idea they owned Joanns and had bought them out 2 years ago! Does this not explain why they are getting rid of their fabric dept???? ARGGGHH! They own it all!
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-3155-1.htm Apparently . . .JoAnn's WAS bought out by Wal-Mart . . .which . . .when you really stop and think about it . . .adds up. Definitely explains why JoAnn's fabric is on the decline and why one can now purchase embroidery only machines at Wal-Mart. Go figure . . . |
I've called the 800#, e-mailed as mentioned before, when the new Walmart had opening day, I stopped one of the "Big Suits" and gave them a piece of my mind on the Fabric Dept being deleted. Their comment "We'll try to do something about that" and walked away with a sneer on his face.
It is like fighting "CITY HALL". Just like this country, Enough of that, another topic. |
I rarely ever shop Walmart for fabric as most of it isn't really high quality and I've learned through sad experience that cheap fabrics don't hold up well and heirloom quilts can be ruined quite easily...I do buy muslin and ulitarian things there however, along with notions...
I've found that when I didn't live close to a nice quilt shop that there are literally tons of great on-line shops that will serve us well. It's like getting gifts in the mail, even though you paid for it yourself! LOL! I had no idea that JoAnn's was owned by Walmart...of course it all makes sense, does it not? |
Exact same reply that they sent to me!! What an insult. Cookie cutter responses. This may seems childish, but I was so upset with them that I'm shopping at Target now. I'm sure that Walmart doesn't care about one little person in a snit, but it makes me feel better!!!
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Originally Posted by granny guilter
But, back to W-mart Fabric, felt it was just as good as the $3.99-5.99 fabric at Jo-ann's.
Until they've either bought up or put out of, every business in America, Wal-Mart won't rest. As long as there's a LQS in my town . . .and excellent fabric sources on the web . . .I'm staying well away from Wal-Mart. |
Just like others, Wal-Mart is the ONLY grocery store in our town and I ONLY shop there if I have to. We still have fabric, but, again, not the best and not much to choose from. When Wal-Mart remodeled our store, they went to the super store and ran the best grocery store out of business. But, from what I have read, that's just what Wal-Mart wants to do, run other's out of business. Their target store to ruin next, Best Buy. That's why the electronic's department is growing in the stores.
You are sooooooooooo right, Wal-Mart is not like it used to be when Daddy was running the company. Another example of greed and money being their bottom line. Pretty SAD!!!!!! |
:thumbup: Well, I found the web site where we can order the same fabric and quilt of the month as Walmart can. It is-www.eanathan.com. Can download the quilt pattern and buy the fabric (if you want to order by the bolt), but can look for the fabric at Jo-Ann's.
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ae nathan has a 250yd minimum order requirement
or 12 bolts |
PHOOEY! Its off to Mardens for me! They have a HUGE fabric dept in the one near me in Ellsworth, ME.
I also shop at my LQS. She gives a 15% discount to anyone who tells her that they belong to a quilt guild and name the guild. If you are ever in Bar Harbor, ME, she is right across from the post office. The rest of my fabrics come from online sources. The only thing that Walmart is good for, in my opinion, is their low prescription prices, books and magazines and occcasionally some clothes. |
right, got my figures mixed up. :oops:
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We have a Walmart in Tallahassee, Fl that has converted their fabric from by the bolt cut to pre-cut selections. The selection is very limited and the pieces are fat quarters, 1 yard (prints) and 2 yard solids. The prices are higher. Hope this is not what they consider something that we should be excited about. I buy a lot of Walmart cottons in 5 to 8 yard lengths for backings.
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PatriceJ, Yu have hit the nail very squarely on its head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by kso
Here is an email I rec'd today from WalMart.
Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding the fabric department in your local store. As with any merchandise decision that we make, we have based our decision to reduce the stitching and fabric departments on customer demand, which does not appear to be as high today for a full stitching and fabric offering in some markets as it may have been at Walmart in the past. In keeping with our emphasis on being a store of the community, Walmart is converting the fabrics and crafts department in some stores to a newly expanded assortment of merchandise that focuses on life's celebrations. We are thrilled to offer our customers this exciting new crafts and celebrations center that makes available craft and party planning needs along with information on current trends and new ideas in the area of life's celebrations, such as holidays, weddings and birthdays. In those stores where the new crafts and celebrations center is placed, merchandise commonly referred to as 'notions' will be included in the product offerings - such as sewing machines, yarn, needles, thread, etc. As a part of this conversion, most of our new and remodeled stores that opened earlier this year, as well as a small number of existing stores, will feature the new crafts and celebrations center in place of bolt fabrics. Walmart will continue to carry cut fabric in most of our stores. Due to the continued evaluation of our stores, we are unable to share a list of existing stores scheduled to receive the new crafts and celebrations center at this time. Sincerely, Walmart Customer Care |
I, too, received the "generic" reply from WalMart... well, it does tell us a few things..... some of us are writing and we are getting the same answer.... not a response to personal comments in our emails to them...
I told them that I have never seen anyone in their "celebration" aisles, and that is in several stores located in my area. They may have made a MAJOR blunder in their remodeling efforts. Oh, well, their loss is another stores gain. |
The local Walmart here replaced the fabric department with crappy Chinese made plastic toys !!! I want to kick something every time I have to pass there.
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This is a good thing to come out of WalMart's decision to close out their materials....I'm all for the local business' getting a break from the big box stores....
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I am in agreement with you ClairVoyant....am tired of the little guy having to compete with the big box stores..and the discounts. Give the local guys a chance.
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I am in agreement with you ClairVoyant....am tired of the little guy having to compete with the big box stores..and the discounts. Give the local guys a chance.
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I agree give the little guys a chance but my LQS just went up to $10.50 a yard. Who can afford that for quilting?
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I agree with you on the small Mom and Pop stores; however, there are three WalMarts within 50 miles of my house and only one LQS. The next nearest LQShops are over 100 miles away. There's one WalMart that carries fabric - 50 miles away. The local WM has a bunch of pre-cuts and a few spools of thread, bias tape, etc.
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Since we travel a lot, I have the opportunity to visit many WalMart. An expanded electronics dept. replaced fabric in many stores. Read this as "higher priced items". We were in Parker, AZ recently. Fabric had been removed from WM, there was no other place in this small town to buy fabric.
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YEP!
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Their Craft and Celabration Center sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Closest LQS to Parker is at Lake Havasu (about 40 miles). I live 50 miles North of Havasu.
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I also got the very same message from WM. Made me want to send back a nasty one but didn't. They probably don't even count the ones we send so don't know how many are complaining. Ruth
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well our walmart frabic went from great to fat quarters that is pre packaged and now I have to drive over and hour to the closes frabic store and since walmart stoped sell frabic all of the other places have raised there prices so it's hard to buy frabic that I can afford even for just everyday projects. good thing I have backup frabic that will last for a while
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I received the same reply.
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