I noticed the fabric, um quality, in my local Walmart as well. When the store first opened in my area, there seemed to be nicer fabrics. But after a few months the quality(thread count)went down and some of my friends that seriously quilt went back to JoAnn's, Hancock, Mangelsen's, and a specialty shop that is expensive, but carries great quality cottons. Now what is left(after practically closing down the fabrics is like, eye-catching neon or bright bling, children's prints, and common basic cottons.
As far as help, most of the time when I do go in for just embroidery floss(and its been awhile, there is usually no staff around, rather a "ring bell for service" And of course, if any store selects merchandise that won't sell(especially if you do it intentionally--some big businesses do), you get a tax write-off and a reason to close down store or section. If you have one buyer selecting all the fabric for a huge chain of stores, there is not going to be variety in certain stores that have a track record of selling or not selling fabrics. Support your local specialty shop or shop smaller stores online. I haven't bought fabric in Walmart for a long time and Hobby Lobby seems to be following Walmart's lead in carrying less quantity and lesser quality fabrics. But if anyone knows of a better Walmart or HL, do let their corporate offices know and do support those stores. Cindy Abel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melody Watts Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 6:23 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Wal-Mart fabrics ........1 reason why their goingout..(imho) Could it be the fact that they carry crap fabric in all the Walmarts perhaps be the reason, _why_ they are not profitable? Also that the people employed in the dept.are not fabric savvy? My local Walmart (la habra,Calif) has a woman who works there ,Rosetta,who literally layed across the cutting table because she was tired of cutting my order.I was making it very easy by purchasing the entire bolt,of most of the fabrics, and ordering 10 yrd increments of the ones I didn't purchase in toto. With employees like this who state "Aren't you done yet?" when you're trying to buy cloth, can run it into the ground. Plus buying only 1970 reject neon print polyester knits, doesn't make for a core of saleable merchandise. that is not even fit for the $1 table. Too bad,better fabric, more savvy people could give JoAnns a run for their money, as my JoAnn's has turned into a craft store with fabric as a side line. Melody otsisto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The fabric department issue has been around long before Martha. Wal-Mart goes by the bottom line, their reasoning is that "for the amount of time that it takes for a sales person to cut and measure the fabric, in the electronics department would have sold three items". Besides, Martha doesn't seem to be the kind of person to make such a request. Wally just picked their least profitable department (in their eyes) De -----Original Message----- 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 Mercy sakes, I hope not - already have to fight with Himself to go to Kmart for something, just because he despises Martha so much. If we can't go to Walmart either, that means a 300+mile round trip to a mall.... Liadain _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
