WALMART - FABRIC BOLTS RETURN
04-11-2011, 02:43 PM
#51
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I went in to buy some webbed folding chairs the other day and was told they don't sell them anymore! There are TOO many things they don't sell anymore, after driving out competitors who did sell them, first! I hope the sporting goods and other things they got rid of all come back. I just won't know what to do if they end up with a real fabric section again!
04-11-2011, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by MissJMac
ATTENTION QUILTERS OF AMERICA:
Today's Wall Stree Journal reports that Walmart is returning everyday products like fishing rods and BOLTS OF FABRIC to its shelves. Seems trying to accommodate a younger demographic is not working and they're going back to the group that made them.
YEAH!!!!!!!
Today's Wall Stree Journal reports that Walmart is returning everyday products like fishing rods and BOLTS OF FABRIC to its shelves. Seems trying to accommodate a younger demographic is not working and they're going back to the group that made them.
YEAH!!!!!!!
THEY TOOK OUT FISHING RODS? Idiots!
04-11-2011, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by sewbizgirl
I went in to buy some webbed folding chairs the other day and was told they don't sell them anymore! There are TOO many things they don't sell anymore, after driving out competitors who did sell them, first! I hope the sporting goods and other things they got rid of all come back. I just won't know what to do if they end up with a real fabric section again!
But they are soooooooooooooo proud of their new wider aisles! @@
One gripe of mine is that they seem to have reduced your choices of some items. Like maybe two major brands and then the store brand-----but other minor brands are gone.
04-11-2011, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by AlwaysQuilting
I don't want to rain on what will be a happy circumstance for alot of us fabric shoppers (includes me) but I hope this time they will have the fabric counter staffed by someone who knows how to cut fabric. Before the "change" when my store had fabric I had to call for help each time and wait and wait. Then whoever came over usually admitted they really didn't know what to do.
I told him he was unfair to us the customers, unfair to the kid trying to fill in and unfair to Wal-Mart. We could very easily have told her a yard was 60 inches or 72 inches or whatever we wanted if we were dishonest. It was bad for the girl, becaue she was frustrated beyond belief. And it took us, the customers, about 5 times the time we'd normally have spent in line.
What surprised me the other day, I got a gal in Jo-ann's who didn't know how to cut a third of a yard. She almost cut 2/3 until I stopped her. Adn of course, she had no idea that 1/3 of a yard was .3333
04-11-2011, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Carrie
Once they removed the fabric from our Walmart, I stopped going. It was the only reason I found to shop there. By watching the sales, I found I could do just as well shopping at other stores.
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