Yeah!!!!! our super WalMart only has the prepackaged fabric:( you are very fortunate:)
Ida in Missouri

If they are bring fabric departments back into Super Wal-Marts, do not expect to be right away. It will not be added back into the store until time for their next remodel which is usually every five years.

Charla

oh yea . guess ill be going to walmart more often

Yeap!!

We never lost ours, it was just never restocked. Now it has been moved in the re-design of our local store. Fabric is nicer, but up by $1-$2 a yard in some cases. The dept. is a little smaller but much more organized.

Look no WalMart bashing.

precut is being clearanced out to make room for the CUTTING dept!!!! YEA

Will be glad when it returns to my WM. I did get a deal when they closed. I bought all their black on black fabric for $.50 a yard. They had 7 different patterns and about 35 yards in total. I use a lot of black as accent, so it was great.

There was an article in the New York Times or one of the big newspapers that all the Wal-Marts are bringing back bolt fabric and should be done by September. I'll believe the Sept. time frame when I see it but it looks like all stores will be getting the fabric back.

wow! IF it was a 100 years ago, you may have gone to school w/ debbieoh & me-we're planning our 42nd reunion from dear old BROOKSIDE! LOL!!

Yes, it WAS a big mistake to take fabrics & notions out of the stores, when they were the ONLY local source for many ... and party goods and scrapbooking are NOT selling like they expected. LOL Scrapbooking has peaked and sales have dropped, while sewing and quilting continue to GROW in popularity. :)

The quality of fabric is hit or miss wherever you buy it. You are so lucky not to have lost your fabric at Wal Mart. We are getting ours back the last week in June. I talked to the store manager and to one of the women who used to run the fabric department, and they are setting up to do business! froggyintexas

I spoke to the lady in our Wal Mart that still has fabric and she said they are keeping the fabric department.
We have another Wal Mart near me but have not checked to see if there are bring the fabric back there too

Nice they listened.

Sure hope the fabric department returns to our Walmart. We have to drive over 40 miles to buy fabric now.

My DH said that he heard that they will be bringing back the fabric and crafts dept, plus some others, by the last of the year. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Same here. We drive 35 miles.

Yea for us.

I would really love it if walmart carried fabric again. Up here in NNY, there are not that many shops to go to. I've found a couple but nothing like the Variety in Arizona or Colorado

Wal Mart? YUK-that store gives me the creeps, when they had fabric it was LOW quality, and OLD-maybe that's why it always shredded or fell apart-Beware-Jo Ann's is Quality and worth the drive.

we r not getting it back, in columbia , tn.......hate that.

i live in ga. and they are putting yardage in our walmart. it only had pre-packaged!!! yes they heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, our WalMart is getting back all their fabric - whohoo. The clerk I talked to told me that "the stuff on the walls just wasn't selling!" Happy Day!

I talked to the lady at Walmarts where they still had fabric and she said that they are putting it back in every store, not the pre cut fabric.
I was so glad to here it.

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They heard our voices. THIS IS NOT a spam this is true true true. They had a meeting to annoucncement to the employees!!!!
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I do belive you...eventhough I just called the Wal Mart in Germantown, WI only to be told they were definately NOT getting fabric back. I hope they are wrong. :)

Sure hope it comes back to our Super Walmarts here in Springfield.

According to a video posted here-I think-it stated that WM was opening 700 fabric departments out of all their stores. I asked my friend who was the fabric dept. head at our WM if this was true & she said maybe. According to the WM website, if your store was remodeled in the past & fabric was removed, it may not return. If your store is remodelling now or in the near future, it will keep/reinstate its fabric dept. However, there is no definite way to know which stores will reinstate. We can only hope that what was lost will be returned!

Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbup: :-D

Ours isn't getting theirs back, according to the store manager. It was never anything to brag about, but at least you could find some flannel and other home decorating fabrics...and sewing thread.

Their decision to pull out the fabrics was one of the reasons I opened a shop....our local WM (not even a superstore) never had the local customers in mind with a lot of the decisions they've made.

Christine

Groceries is all I buy in WM. Life was getting strange when I had to stop at DolGen for stuff WM no longer carried. Doesn't look like we're going to get it here in St. Marys. Guess they'll just have to keep doing without my business.

Hope my WalMart does the same!!!!!

Well I really hope our Walmart brings it back. I have 2 Super Walmarts in driving distance, but neither even has the precuts. I would be shocked if they bring it back here.

just my opinion, that packaged stuff is JUNK

I wouldnt want it given to me in any form.

they kept our fabric yardage dept after the reset, they put in some of that junk, as soon as the store setters left, the dept heads.....in their wisdom, moved it completely out of the dept, putting it outside marked down under tents as a sidewalk sale and I still wouldnt buy it

They are building on to our WalMart so that they can make it into a Super WalMart. I hope they bring the fabric dept. back. They ran all the fabric stores out of business because their prices were lower, then they closed the fabric dept.

I just went to Walmart in Danville Va. today and the store was all being redone. They got rid of their fabric dept years ago. Today I saw bolts and bolts of new fabric waiting to be put on shelves! YEAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe someone does listen to quilters.

Yes it is true, I just went to my stitchery group today and they told me that the new WalMart in Corneius Oregon, is going to have a fabric and yarn department. One of the members granddaughters is going to be the manager of it. She managed a fabric store in the same town till the store closed about 5 years ago. Now we shall wait to see what quality of fabric it will be. Jan

Goody, I will be checking out my local W-M. Maybe I should ask the manager every time I go, too.

Our fabric dept. Never went away. A few years ago the mgr. Told me that our walmart sells more fabric than any other store in the chain.

Last week there was a big empty spot where the fabric dept. used to be. This week there is a new fabric dept, in another area of the store. It is larger and has more bolts, ribbon, and craft items. I was so surprised to see it back!!

I was told by a lady that worked in the fabric dept. of Walmart for 15 years that they were putting fabric back into over 170 of their stores and that they admitted they had made a mistake by taking it out. Maybe my email to them helped a little too.