Wal-Mart Fabric Department News
01-03-2011, 07:22 PM
#21
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 183
If the powers that be at wm were really smart they would get in lots of good quality quilting fabric instead of some of the junk they have. We"d be so happy . Wonder why they haven"t thought of that? Thank goodness our wm still have fabric ,but the quilting fab is really limited.
01-03-2011, 07:55 PM
#22
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Cadillac, MI
Posts: 6,487
Ours downsized, but kept quite a few bolts. Now they are adding bolts every time I go in. There are some pretty Spring coordinates. I don't know how good the fabric is, but it looks good. If I wasn't on a fabric moriatorium for the New Year, I'd buy a little piece to wash and let you know. Why did I agree to that?
01-03-2011, 08:19 PM
#24
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Texas
Posts: 324
Down here the payscale is very low in rural areas. Our WM fabric department could make a lot of money by offering better quality - and actually allow that one department worker to stay in the department and not have to run all over the store helping other departments when their people don't show up for work. Maybe it's a less than desirable store manager - don't know.
01-03-2011, 08:22 PM
#25
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,440
I was in one of our Wal-Marts in Nov. and they said it was here to stay and matter of fact would be moving it to the front of the building and enlarging it and also bring it back to the Wal -mart Center on 1-40 as well and she said there was talk of
a man that was going to open another Fabric retail store here as well. :D I really like the sounds of that :-D
a man that was going to open another Fabric retail store here as well. :D I really like the sounds of that :-D
01-03-2011, 08:25 PM
#26
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Salem, Oregon
Posts: 2,438
Originally Posted by Bostons
Okay, so I don't know if this is true or not so please don't shoot the messenger, BUT...I was purchasing fabric at Wal-Mart tonight and I mentioned to the woman how happy I was that we had such a great fabric dept. b/c I knew so many stores were discontinuing theirs. She said we absolutely weren't and had been getting tons of fabric in lately AND that other stores are going to be BRINGING BACK their fabric departments.
So take that for what it's worth. I know there are a lot of opinions on this topic but for those who love to shop at Wal-Mart, you can keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best!
So take that for what it's worth. I know there are a lot of opinions on this topic but for those who love to shop at Wal-Mart, you can keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best!
01-03-2011, 08:37 PM
#27
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Enid, OK
Posts: 8,273
actually writing in had nothing to do with..millions wrote in and we still lost ours..and it was the ONLY fabric store that serviced 200K plus people here in rural Northern OK....walmart decided that electronics were the TICKET sale items..and so we got a HUGE electronic dept that you can never find anything you really NEED in..in fact after they reset our store we had wider aisles, but you can not find anything you actually NEED in that store!
NOW walmart is saying that they are going to start closing stores in areas that over stuffed with walmarts...AND no more super stores! The super stores now will be downsized to more of the original store models and the new Market place stores will be opened instead(the new grocery stores)...
will be interesting to see where they go in this economy! I hate that they are all we have here....
NOW walmart is saying that they are going to start closing stores in areas that over stuffed with walmarts...AND no more super stores! The super stores now will be downsized to more of the original store models and the new Market place stores will be opened instead(the new grocery stores)...
will be interesting to see where they go in this economy! I hate that they are all we have here....
01-03-2011, 08:45 PM
#30
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Enid, OK
Posts: 8,273
Originally Posted by Cheryl
They have brought back some material on small bolts but it is really crappy looking material in our Wal-Mart it's like the material no one would really buy. $5.00 for a bolt.
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