Originally Posted by bizybess
At first glance I read this as, they buy for buy for 6 dollars a pound and sell for 5 dollars a pound and couldn't figure out how in the world they were going to make any money. LOL
Here is the math that I did to figure out the profit: A 1/4 yard of fabric weighs 1.25 ounces or less. At 1.25 ounces, there are almost 13 quarter-yard cuts in a pound. They are buying a pound of fabric for $6, so each 1/4 yard costs them less than 50 cents ($6/13=46 cents per 1/4 yard). So they are paying less than $2 a yard ($0.46 x 4=$1.84) for material and selling it for $5 a yard. I think that is a pretty good profit margin and a great price for their customers. Whew!