Walmart and Anchor

Where are you?

The store is in Delmont Pa. I hope the other stores close to me join in. I might buy some clearance DMC for 10 cents. Donna

My local Wal-Mart is also discontinuing DMC, and the day I discovered this fact, there was no one in the craft/fabric department to whom I might have inquired about a replacement brand of floss. The store is a "supercenter", yet there is a paucity of materials related to cross stitch. It's disheartening, to say the least. Those in the group who have easy access to Hobby Lobby and Michael's and LNS's are to be envied.

Betty in Georgia

My wife's LNS is in Kirkwall, about 12 miles away, it is VERY good, stocks a great selection of Anchor silks and is VERY helpful - but getting there involves a 90 minute ferry to get there and another 90 minute ferry back. Far easier to telephone them and ask them to post the items.

Anchor (aka Coats & Clark) has a line of silks?

Dianne

Well this is another stupid move on Walmarts part. I'll have to look for them to go on clearance and stock up on what colors I'm missing.

Celeste

Anchor and Coats & Clark are exactly the same?? I didn't know that...

mag

My Walmart (in Canada) has never stocked DMC - only Anchor. I assumed this was normal!

I am going from memory, but I think Coates & Clark is the name of a firm who market Anchor floss. They also market a cheaper sort of floss under the name "Coates & Clark". So, I believe Anchor and Coates & Clark are not the same; just made by the same firm.

wrote

Even better and much cheaper - order from Tandem Cottage (Derbyshire)

- I`ve been dealing with them for years - lovely people, great prices and service. That reminds me - I need to put in another order myself!Pat

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. Robert Service (1874 - 1958)

It will probably be a penny or two more than DMC, as it is over here in the UK. I feel it`s worth the extra, though.

Pat

Coats & Clark floss is of lesser quality. I can't remember if Anchor owns C&C or C&C owns Anchor. :~)

Dianne

I think they're owned by some really big company - might be that C&C is the owner. The Anchor threads are manufactured elsewhere - IIRC they're mostly made in France.

And yes, they make stranded silk, 6-ply, colors similar to their floss and other products. It's pretty nice, similar in feel to Au Ver a Soie (which I think is 7 strand) . I found this site with a listing of the Anchor silks:

have Anchor silk (not a lot of it, but some) in the shop, along withMarlitt, floss, and perle cotton. Personally, I prefer to stitch with Anchor floss - I like the feel, sheen a little better. But it is a little more expensive - especially compared with buying DMC at a Michaels bargain.

When the LNS was selling DMC at 33 cents a skein, the Anchor was 40 cents. Have no idea what Wal-mart will do.

Got to go - coffee addiction still calling, ellice

Floss is the Americanese - we say "Stranded cotton". LOL! If she uses the card bobbins to store her Anchor (or DMC!) Tandem cottage will wind them on to those for you too, at no extra cost - but it may take a day or two longer.

My mother was born in Chesterfield, so our families were nearly neighbours! We love Derbyshire.

Pat

From when my mother taught me embroidery we used to call them embroidery silks. I still have a few of those silks which are cotton from those days.

I live about 6 miles from Chesterfield not far from Bolsover Castle. Yes it is a small world. Shirley

Our Wal-Mart has carried Anchor since it opened and it is about twenty cents cheaper (Canadian) than the DMC you can buy around here and one advantage of it is that it comes wound on bobbins.

Are you sure this is Anchor and not J&P Coats floss? Coats comes wound on cardboard bobbins, but I've never seen Anchor packaged for retail sale that way.

Anchor is manufactured in Germany, and Coats used to be made in the US, but no telling where it comes from now that everything seems to be outsourced.

Coats comes in fewer shades and is generally a poorer quality floss than Anchor or DMC.

I've never shopped in Wal-Mart, so I've no idea what they do or why. lol

Nyssa, who wonders if Anchor is doing a special packaging of their floss just for sale at Wal-Mart At River's End

What Walmart here in NS, Canada carries is definitely Anchor floss, not the cheaper J&P Coats. It's cheaper than DMC but there is less quantity on the bobbins....either 5 or 6 meters instead of 8.

Mavia