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Hi everyone, just got back from my local walmart where I was informed
that "corporate" wants to eliminate all or most of the craft department. I shop for fabric there as well as at joann, quilt shops, and online. While some people turn their noses up at anything but designer fabric, it is possible to find premium quality yardage and precuts at walmart at a great price, tonite i got a 7 piece fat quarter bundle of mary engelbreit prints for $10.97, best bargain I've gotten in a long time! The fabric is gorgeous and meets my super picky standards. Who isn't on a budget these days and doesn't love to get a good deal? I was told to call 1.800.walmart to voice my objection to their plan to eliminate the craft dept and I plan to do so as soon as I post this. If enough people object maybe they will reconsider. Let's use our power as consumers to let them know we will take ALL our business elsewhere, especially those younger families with children, teens, etc. Please spread the word and maybe we can stop this from happening, who's with me? |
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Hey nancy
Well I hope you can accomplish what the rest of us have not. Walmart started closing the fabric and crafts dept several years ago. I used to go there and buy all my patterns for dressmaking. Now you can't find a decent spool of thread anymore. If you are into scrapbooking then you can shop at Walmart, anything else like knitting, crochet, cross stitch, jewelrymaking, cake decorating, flower arrangements, etc. are not in the new stores. Try to find an iron that won't burn up in 30 minutes, rotary blades, sewing needles, rotary cutters, scissors for fabric, a damned thimble or a button. As far as Walmart is concerned we "domestics" are a part of history. Kate T. South Mississippi |
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:38:12 -0700 (PDT), nancy
wrote: Hi everyone, just got back from my local walmart where I was informed that "corporate" wants to eliminate all or most of the craft department. I shop for fabric there as well as at joann, quilt shops, and online. While some people turn their noses up at anything but designer fabric, it is possible to find premium quality yardage and precuts at walmart at a great price, tonite i got a 7 piece fat quarter bundle of mary engelbreit prints for $10.97, best bargain I've gotten in a long time! The fabric is gorgeous and meets my super picky standards. Who isn't on a budget these days and doesn't love to get a good deal? I was told to call 1.800.walmart to voice my objection to their plan to eliminate the craft dept and I plan to do so as soon as I post this. If enough people object maybe they will reconsider. Let's use our power as consumers to let them know we will take ALL our business elsewhere, especially those younger families with children, teens, etc. Please spread the word and maybe we can stop this from happening, who's with me? Interesting - One of our two local Walmart's kept the fabric department (even expanded it) when they morphed into a Super Center and the other one now says they want to bring the fabric department back! -Irene |
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Just curious: do the cashiers at your Walmart say hello or acknowledge your
presence in any way? Those at our local Walmart are apparently trained to not speak to the customers. Linda "nancy" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, just got back from my local walmart where I was informed that "corporate" wants to eliminate all or most of the craft department. I shop for fabric there as well as at joann, quilt shops, and online. While some people turn their noses up at anything but designer fabric, it is possible to find premium quality yardage and precuts at walmart at a great price, tonite i got a 7 piece fat quarter bundle of mary engelbreit prints for $10.97, best bargain I've gotten in a long time! The fabric is gorgeous and meets my super picky standards. Who isn't on a budget these days and doesn't love to get a good deal? I was told to call 1.800.walmart to voice my objection to their plan to eliminate the craft dept and I plan to do so as soon as I post this. If enough people object maybe they will reconsider. Let's use our power as consumers to let them know we will take ALL our business elsewhere, especially those younger families with children, teens, etc. Please spread the word and maybe we can stop this from happening, who's with me? |
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I've noticed and regard it as a personal challenge. They will speak to me
or else I'll die trying. I either get a smile out of them or their face cracks. One or the other. Polly "Linda" wrote Just curious: do the cashiers at your Walmart say hello or acknowledge your presence in any way? Those at our local Walmart are apparently trained to not speak to the customers. |
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"Linda" wrote in message ... Just curious: do the cashiers at your Walmart say hello or acknowledge your presence in any way? Those at our local Walmart are apparently trained to not speak to the customers. Linda "nancy" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, just got back from my local walmart where I was informed that "corporate" wants to eliminate all or most of the craft department. I shop for fabric there as well as at joann, quilt shops, and online. While some people turn their noses up at anything but designer fabric, it is possible to find premium quality yardage and precuts at walmart at a great price, tonite i got a 7 piece fat quarter bundle of mary engelbreit prints for $10.97, best bargain I've gotten in a long time! The fabric is gorgeous and meets my super picky standards. Who isn't on a budget these days and doesn't love to get a good deal? I was told to call 1.800.walmart to voice my objection to their plan to eliminate the craft dept and I plan to do so as soon as I post this. If enough people object maybe they will reconsider. Let's use our power as consumers to let them know we will take ALL our business elsewhere, especially those younger families with children, teens, etc. Please spread the word and maybe we can stop this from happening, who's with me? The WalMart cashiers always speak to me. Our store has one isle of prepackaged fleece or other cloth of maybe 2 yards. There is a small rack of the easy patterns---maybe 18. We have a small section of Coats & Clark thread. It also has a very few of the Singer SMs, maybe 4 or 5. There are also a few rolls of the 2 inch' wide rolls of quilting material. So sad I must drive more than 10 miles to a Hancock's or Hobby Lobby. Other cloth stores are even further. Barbara in SC |
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On Jun 2, 10:06*am, "Linda" wrote:
Just curious: do the cashiers at your Walmart say hello or acknowledge your presence in any way? Those at our local Walmart are apparently trained to not speak to the customers. Linda"nancy" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, just got back from my local walmart where I was informed that "corporate" wants to eliminate all or most of the craft department. *I shop for fabric there as well as at joann, quilt shops, and online. *While some people turn their noses up at anything but designer fabric, it is possible to find premium quality yardage and precuts at walmart at a great price, tonite i got a 7 piece fat quarter bundle of mary engelbreit prints for $10.97, best bargain I've gotten in a long time! *The fabric is gorgeous and meets my super picky standards. *Who isn't on a budget these days and doesn't love to get a good deal? *I was told to call 1.800.walmart to voice my objection to their plan to eliminate the craft dept and I plan to do so as soon as I post this. *If enough people object maybe they will reconsider. *Let's use our power as consumers to let them know we will take ALL our business elsewhere, especially those younger families with children, *teens, etc. *Please spread the word and maybe we can stop this from happening, who's with me? Hi Linda, Honestly, most of the people who work at the store I frequent seem to be under the influence of some kind of controlled substance or barely literate. I had not shopped at wm since before last christmas due to the lack of cust svc and other reasons, but I am a fabric addict with a super limited budget at the moment, so I thought I would pop in to see what they had on sale. The craft area had stuff piled into baskets on a cart and had been totally rearranged since the last time I had been there so I asked the clerk what was happening and got the scoop. Anyway, to get back to your question, it seems that most of the employees that I have come into contact with there are stepford escapees or recently released prisoners, not to be mean, just sayin that's the impression I get |
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WOW, I guess we're really lucky. At our Walmart the clerks and cashiers go
out of the way to help. Everyone in the store is very friendly, which makes shopping there very pleasant. Gen "Linda" wrote in message ... Just curious: do the cashiers at your Walmart say hello or acknowledge your presence in any way? Those at our local Walmart are apparently trained to not speak to the customers. Linda "nancy" wrote in message ... Hi everyone, just got back from my local walmart where I was informed that "corporate" wants to eliminate all or most of the craft department. I shop for fabric there as well as at joann, quilt shops, and online. While some people turn their noses up at anything but designer fabric, it is possible to find premium quality yardage and precuts at walmart at a great price, tonite i got a 7 piece fat quarter bundle of mary engelbreit prints for $10.97, best bargain I've gotten in a long time! The fabric is gorgeous and meets my super picky standards. Who isn't on a budget these days and doesn't love to get a good deal? I was told to call 1.800.walmart to voice my objection to their plan to eliminate the craft dept and I plan to do so as soon as I post this. If enough people object maybe they will reconsider. Let's use our power as consumers to let them know we will take ALL our business elsewhere, especially those younger families with children, teens, etc. Please spread the word and maybe we can stop this from happening, who's with me? |
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I've had the same good experience at ours. The people are friendly and
extremely helpful. Maybe it's just the Midwestern way! Louise in Iowa http://community.webshots.com/user/LouiseinIowa nieland1390@mchsidotcom On 6/2/2011 3:07 PM, Gen wrote: WOW, I guess we're really lucky. At our Walmart the clerks and cashiers go out of the way to help. Everyone in the store is very friendly, which makes shopping there very pleasant. Gen wrote in message ... Just curious: do the cashiers at your Walmart say hello or acknowledge your presence in any way? Those at our local Walmart are apparently trained to not speak to the customers. Linda wrote in message ... Hi everyone, just got back from my local walmart where I was informed that "corporate" wants to eliminate all or most of the craft department. I shop for fabric there as well as at joann, quilt shops, and online. While some people turn their noses up at anything but designer fabric, it is possible to find premium quality yardage and precuts at walmart at a great price, tonite i got a 7 piece fat quarter bundle of mary engelbreit prints for $10.97, best bargain I've gotten in a long time! The fabric is gorgeous and meets my super picky standards. Who isn't on a budget these days and doesn't love to get a good deal? I was told to call 1.800.walmart to voice my objection to their plan to eliminate the craft dept and I plan to do so as soon as I post this. If enough people object maybe they will reconsider. Let's use our power as consumers to let them know we will take ALL our business elsewhere, especially those younger families with children, teens, etc. Please spread the word and maybe we can stop this from happening, who's with me? |
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