Fabric at our WalMart
#51
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The Walmart fabric dept depends entirely on that dept. manager. Many just order the basic stock items and the ones that listen to customers or knows about quilting will order the good notions and tools. Anything in the Walmart inventory can be ordered as stock items for the store. It all depends on shelf space for that dept. I suggested getting rid of half the artificial flowers as that aisle is always a mess. The dept manager said oh my friends and I love making flower arrangements. One Walmart close by the dept manager is a quilter. That fabric dept is fantastic. Her dept. made enough profit to keep the fabric dept open, in fact it never got rid of that dept when all others did.
Cari
#53
The LQS's I have been price themselves out of my market. I have have bought Hobby Lobby and Mostly Wal Mart's fabrics for lots of years. Like everything we buy made of fabric you must go by the feel. I have never been disappointed with fabrics from either store.
#54
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Location: Homosassa, FL
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Call. write and or e-mail and complain to home store in AK, and also local store and ask where district manager is located. If everyone bitches they sometimes change their minds.
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they brought it back here too. One thing that hasn't changed, you still have to wait 20 minutes or more for someone to cut the fabric for you. I was in WM yesterday and salespeople kept walking by and saying someone is coming. Like I said 20 minutes later someone finally did come. It can be frustrating.
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they brought it back here too. One thing that hasn't changed, you still have to wait 20 minutes or more for someone to cut the fabric for you. I was in WM yesterday and salespeople kept walking by and saying someone is coming. Like I said 20 minutes later someone finally did come. It can be frustrating.
Cari
#60
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Location: Baileys Prairie, Texas
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Walmart fabric and sewing sections are at the whim of the store manager. Our store has NOTHING!! The store in Fredricksberg, TX and Del Rio, TX has a large selection and patterns and trims. I always stop and check what is available. I make charity quilts and I can't afford $14.50/yard fabric on my retirement. This time I got 3 cuts of fabric for $3.00/yard on clearance. I got 6 yards of backing material for $4.00/yard. It will make 3 children's quilts.
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