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02-23-2012, 04:47 PM
#42
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Originally Posted by 0tis
My local Walmart (60 miles away) has been under renovation for the last year - I went in Monday- strolling through looking for craft items and gasp........Yes....they are bringing back the fabric department. Yay...they took it out a couple of years ago and now its back..... Happy Dance.....
02-23-2012, 05:33 PM
#43
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Originally Posted by Tartan
I hope it's bolts and not just the darn pre-cuts that we got back!
I have to go on an 80 mile round trip to the nearest Wal-Mart with any kind of fabric/sewing notion selection.
When I was there lat the girl in the fabric department said they had just gotten word that fabric was going to be in again in 600 stores.
Hope one of them is my Wal-Mart which is a mile away!!!!!
02-23-2012, 06:26 PM
#45
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I was so happy when WalMart began bringing back fabric to many of its stores making fabric more readily available in areas that may not have a LQS. Although prices have gone up, much of it is more affordable; not everyone can afford quilt shop prices. I put messages on the web-sites of our local WalMarts that brought back fabric, thanking them for doing so, and stating why it was important to many who sew and quilt. Although I continue to purchase much of my fabric from my LQS, not every quilt is an heirloom, and WalMart does carry some nicer cotton fabric that is just right for some projects. I'm happy to have another fabric source! Let's be sure to let WalMart know we appreciate them bringing back fabric to many of their stores! Their help is often spread thin and may have no experience with sewing or quilting, but I thank them too for carrying fabric, and usually find they respond well to a kind word.
02-23-2012, 07:56 PM
#46
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WalMart at TAYLORVILLE, IL has a great fabric deartment. Franklin, TN nas a good one. Columbia, TN is sorry. Paducah, Ky has a lot of unusual items in the fabric dept. nobody else does. Keep looking.
02-23-2012, 09:36 PM
#48
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Clever idea your friend had. "My" Walmart is staffed with very nice, friendly people during 'normal' business hours, but after 8:PM you have to hunt someone down. However, they are always courteous and friendly. No complaints from me about that.
02-24-2012, 05:03 AM
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Our WW never closed the fabric dept. However they managed to make the area managers life so miserable she quit after 24 years of running the department and now has a new job with way less stress. The department was always in the top 200 of the stores, but with a new manager that just hounded her to death to get rid of a "higher wage" employee and then put the department under someone who does not even sew. Great help a customer gets from this person. I also found lots of "cheap" fabric, loosely woven so when the sizing washes out its a very inferior fabric. Also prices for the better fabric is now nearly "$8 a yard. So it goes. At least it is back.
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