Walmart's failure to staff fabric/craft department
02-08-2012, 07:03 AM
#52
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Barnesville GA
Posts: 3,181
They said in the Wm here they were going to get fabric back in January. It would be closer for me to run into for small things. But no sign of anything happening so I guess they changed their minds. I didn't even bother to ask.
02-08-2012, 07:45 AM
#56
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Clinton, IA
Posts: 422
It is a great idea to call the store! I am retired from WM (just last September) and I was the one who answered the phone. Customers called all the time for service. Our store hasn't gotten the fabric back yet but customers were calling for service in the paint department. The WM are understaffing the stores and has just one person to cover several departments so it is a good idea to call the store while there to find help. It isn't the sales floor help fault for the lack of service it is upper managements fault for understaffing.
I go to a WM in another town to purchase fusible batting ($4.97 yd) and heavyweight interfacing ($2.97 yd) that my LQS doesn't carry
I go to a WM in another town to purchase fusible batting ($4.97 yd) and heavyweight interfacing ($2.97 yd) that my LQS doesn't carry
02-08-2012, 07:46 AM
#57
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Leesburg, Florida
Posts: 817
I sure miss the days when the fabric department was a fabric dpartment and there were ladies there to help me all the time. It was such a better experience. And profitable for them. I used to spend a lot of money at Walmart - not just on the fabric but all the other stuff I really couldn't resist. Now, I hardly even shop the store and they have fabric. Just not the same!
Originally Posted by kay carlson
I sometimes need to purchase some interfacing or higher quality fabric from Walmart to try a technique.
Today, I decided to add the store phone number to my cellphone contact list.
I will ring the "call associate bell" once and wait for their response.
Then, I will phone the store to ask for assistance if step one doesn't work!
What do you think????
Bottom line: there's nothing like the knowledge, courtesy, and quality received at your LQS......
Today, I decided to add the store phone number to my cellphone contact list.
I will ring the "call associate bell" once and wait for their response.
Then, I will phone the store to ask for assistance if step one doesn't work!
What do you think????
Bottom line: there's nothing like the knowledge, courtesy, and quality received at your LQS......
02-08-2012, 07:49 AM
#58
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Merritt Island ,Fl.
Posts: 997
Last time I got fabric at walmart ,another customer cut it for me .after a long wait. Than I lucked out they could not read her numbers an he could not find it in there little book. so I got a yard an a half , for the price of a yard. I had told him how I waited an got no answer. joyce j
02-08-2012, 07:56 AM
#60
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Idaho
Posts: 11
Looks like I'm very lucky with my Wal Mart. I wandered back to the fabric while waiting for my glasses and found a group of fabrics for a quilt and the pattern. And tractor fabric with old red tractors like my husband collects, so I get to make him a quilt. The ladies that work there sew and quilt. Guess I should say that this is in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
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