People are still sewing in my neck of the woods, but a lot more careful
about waiting for sales. They are also concerned about fabric quality,
esp thread count among quilters. I think it is tied in more with the
economy--most people have been losing spending power in dollars earned
for a long
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
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Crafts and Celebrations certainly sounds as iof it could be
Martha-related.
MaggiRos
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Cactus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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
Maggie wrote:
Crafts and Celebrations certainly sounds as iof it could be
Martha-related.
I have seen the crafts and celebrations aisle. It's full of simple craft
items for making invitations, baby shower and wedding tokens, and junk
like that. I think there may have been some clothing
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
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From: Joan Broneske [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
When the department manager could order the bins at our Walmarts, they would
get in about 60% of the decent to good stuff like 100% raw silk, 100% cotton
brocade, brocades, jaquards...etc. Then when upper management took over and
didn't know what the customer wanted in the fabric section the stuff
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
This is definitely costume, but not historical, so this is OT, but I had to
show this around. Or am I the last person to know about this? The video has
been up for a couple of years:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-wUgnyGv0
Absolutely amazing. I think -- after replaying multiple times --
Robin Netherton wrote:
Absolutely amazing. I think -- after replaying multiple times -- that
the green one unfolds from the shoulders into the blue one, but I can't
figure out the rest of them, and even with unfolding, I can't imagine
how you could fit more than two or three in any one
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
Driven all the independent fabric stores out of business within a fair sized
radius by low-balling them and now THEY go out of the Fabric business?
Seems typical. Drive all other possible competition out and leave room only
for the cheap, Chinese stuff, made by people earning cents an hour with
I gave up on Walmart years ago. There is never anyone around to cut the
fabric. That's probably part of why they are losing sales.
Ron Carnegie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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My local Super Wally Worlds (we have 3) used to carry 90% good to excellent
fabric, then they decided to phase it out 2 years ago. So when the they ran
into opposition they started to carry more crap fabric. This ploy was to
discourage customers to go elsewhere so that they can eliminate the
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