'Super' Walmarts have a grocery store within. They are much larger than the regular Walmarts. Nice for one stop shopping I suppose but I find them sort of overwhelming. They are huge. And thats what annoys me- the stores are so huge but they cant find room for fabrics.
There are 5 Super Walmarts within about 20 miles of me. Three of them are continuing to get new fabric. The other 2 are getting a little bit of new fabric, and said they hoped to have all the fabric out of their stores by January 1st.
Sherry Starr
I personally hope walmart gets totally out of fabric. They have driven too many manufacturers out of business or off shore. If they're out of fabric/yarn/trims etc. maybe the manufacturers that are left can stay in business. And maybe the other stores that carry decent fabric can expand instead of continue to go out of business.
Good on ya, Sandy! Hightower should be required listening for everybody.
Cindy
One of our Guild members slaves at the local WM in the fabric department. She said she was told that they will keep their fabric until the next remodel, probably in 1 - 1 1/2 years.
No brand new stores have a fabric department and several local WM's had a recent store remodel and have already quit carrying it.
Unless a new CEO comes onboard in the next few years, it doesn't matter how many people complain or how well they organize, craft departments as we know them will be gone.
Not such a bad thing in my opinion. I know I won't go to WM as often if they don't carry thread or batting. Since the nearest fabric store is 30 miles away, I'll order online or finally learn to wait or make do.
"Super Walmarts" are bigger, and contain a full size grocery store on one side of the store...including meat department, deli, bakery, etc.
I found the same thing at our WalMart. Could not believe the price on that yarn. At Meijer it is $2.49 and at Hobby Lobby it is $2.29. Our regular WalMart is turning itself into a Super WalMart, but so far they still have the fabric and yarn, etc. They didn't move, they just built on the wing that houses the grocery store (which is only partially stocked at the moment).
We haven't opened our RV since Katrina. We had no idea that that's where flies go to die. Now that it is bearable to breathe outside, maybe we'd better go air and vacuum out the flies. Polly
Debra wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
I was thinking maybe everyone added this at the end of their emails:
"Don't MESS with us, we're QUILTERS! We work with sharp objects"!
The Super Wal-Mart in Simpsonville, SC has a place to get kiddy pictures made, a hairdresser, place to get your eyes checked and to get glasses, and a small room with kiddy rides for the toddler set & also pin ball machines---but they aren't exactly pin ball machines. They expanded the garden & shrub department. Barbara now in FL
Did'nt know there was an Epping in the States, the real Epping with the forest where I misspent my youth with my pony had a very classy fabric store and an independant department store with some fabric, last time I visited 15 yrs ago you couldn't buy even a reel of thread.
Marion in Newtongrange
The one we have locally is trying to get their property value cut in half:
Nothing sends me to Sears (or online) faster than reading about Wal-Mart.
NightMist
Ha! They might have! Debra in VA See my quilts at
my nearest fabric store is farther away. I'd just stop sewing when the stash ran out. I'm not tempted to buy fabric or thread if I can't actually touch it or see the true colors in person. I'd go back to embroidery because I have a DMC color card and know what each color looks like when I order it. Debra in VA See my quilts at
"Tracey" wrote in news:kWaPi.1404$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net:
I was in a SuperWalmart in Kissimmee, Florida,
I'm very confused as I had no idea there were Super and Regular Walmarts. Which is which, as in: how does one tell the difference?
Sandy, I will not shop at Wal-Mart either. I'm sure my few dollars doesn't mean diddly to them, however......... And I REALLY try to not buy anything made in China. I hear there's a website out there somewhere with companies and/or products of "made in USA" stuff. I'll have to see if I can hunt it down. I would much rather support our "local" merchants.
Patti in Seattle
From: snipped-for-privacy@sbcglobal.net (Sandy=A0Ellison) wrote: Howdy! Ethically: nothing.
The super ones have huge grocery stores in them---al in one shopping. Gen
On SC TV the other day they listed items make in SC and one of them is Scott toilet paper. Barbara in SC & now FL
The one here also has a bank, a manicure place, a beauty shop and a McDonalds. DH& I joke that all they need now is apartments and an elementary school.
Sherry
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