but
occasionally you could find some decent cottons at least.
Yes, I found an absolutely wonderful blue and orange plaid cotton once, just
like a turn-of-the-nineteenth century madras.
Ann Wass
-----Original Message-----
From: Joan Broneske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Historical Costume' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 1:31 pm
Subject: Re: [h-cost] walmart fabrics
Wouldn't surprise me in the least. "Life Celebrations"? Yeah, sounds like a
Martha Stewart kind of label.
It's too bad really. It's not like they had a huge craft section to begin
with, but for people who may not have a regular craft or fabric store near
them (but usually have a Walmart, of course!) it was fine. Unfortunately,
most of their sale table fabrics were icky, cheap polyester, but
occasionally you could find some decent cottons at least.
I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the target "clientele" and the usual
clientele of the store don't craft a lot or sew, so they are catering to
them. Why make clothes when you can buy Walmart's cheap, *hitty Chinese
clothes!
The Walmart closest to me has a fair-sized craft/fabric section, but the
next closest one to me has no fabric and only a very small crafts section.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Cactus
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 9:20 AM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] walmart fabrics
Anyone see the ad on tv that Martha Stewart is now selling her wares in
Walmart? Wonder if that was part of her "deal", to get rid of the fabric
department to make room for her merchandise. Just speculating, don't shoot
me! :)
Cactus
--- On Thu, 8/7/08, Susan Data-Samtak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Susan Data-Samtak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [h-cost] walmart fabrics
> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> D
ate: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 6:57 PM
> The reply to my Walmart messge about Fabrics:
>
>
> >>Thank you for your message.
>
> Dear Susan,
>
> Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding the fabric
> department in
> your local store. As with any merchandise decision that we
> make, we
> have based our decision to reduce the stitching and fabric
> departments
> on customer demand, which does not appear to be as high
> today for a
> full stitching and fabric offering in some markets as it
> may have been
> at Wal-Mart in the past.
>
> In keeping with our emphasis on being a store of the
> community, Wal-
> Mart is converting the fabrics and crafts department in
> some stores to
> a newly expanded assortment of merchandise that focuses on
> life's
> celebrations. We are thrilled to offer our customers this
> exciting
> new crafts and celebrations center that makes available
> craft and
> party planning needs along with information on current
> trends and new
> ideas in the area of life's celebrations, such as
> holidays, weddings
> and birthdays.
>
> In those stores where the new crafts and celebrations
> center is
> placed, merchandise commonly referred to as
> 'notions' will be included
> in the product offerings - such as sewing machines, yarn,
> needles,
> thread, etc. As a part of this conversion, most of our new
> and
> remodeled stores that opened earlier this year, as well as
> a small
> number of existing stores, will feature the new crafts and
>
> celebrations center in place of bolt fabrics. Wal-Mart
> will continue
> to carry cut fabric in most of our stores. Due to the
> continued
> evaluation of our stores, we are unable to share a list of
> existing
> stores scheduled to receive the new crafts and celebrations
> center at
> this time.
>
> Thank you,
> Wal-Mart Customer Relations
> >
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