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My walmart has always had fabric, There is 2 other walmart's that are close and they had done away with the fabric but have now put it back in the store. The only issue I have had is locating someone to cut. On the issue of tearing the fabric, I ordered fabric from Elenore Burns website and it was torn and Mary Fons did a segment on her Quilty show on QNNTV website and she said it is ok to tear fabric.
If fabric is always torn it is always on grain. If it is cut it might not be on the bolt correctly so your yardage might not be straight. This can be very noticable if there is a pattern or a plaid.
Once upon a time most fabric you bought was torn rather than cut. Tearing fabric should be accurate, but both ends need to be torn so you have the straight grain on both ends.
Often Walmart clerks are put wherever they are needed rather than where they have been trained to work. I feel for them sometimes because they are caught between a rock and a hard place. Situations like this are poor management issues but it makes for disgruntled customers regardless of the reason.
I am happy to say our Walmart has some good people working in it.....it is not as big as it was...they stopped selling for a couple years then when it came back it is smaller....and the craft dept. is in another area of the store so sometimes it takes a while to get help.....I do have a couple ladies that I look for.... they always do a very good job.....
As far as math goes I think that is a lost skill for a lot of younger people.....the computer went down at McDonalds one time and they had to close...because no one knew how to count back the change.....;0(
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Sorry that you had a bad first experience with WM. I buy fabric there sometimes no problem with cutting just getting someone there to do it. As for the kids know that have a hard time doing math in there heads...It is the way they are taught now. When I was in school we memorized math. 10-4=6 and so on. They have a long drawn out way of getting the same answer. Therefore it takes them longer in their head. So it is quicker just to ask someone else. I see kids struggle with this more and more everyday! I honestly struggle to understand my sons math homework now and he is only in Kindergarten. :icon_shake:
I've written before... I worked the "craft dept" for 3yrs...(Walmart) and everything is so "telzone" driven,, that any beginner would go nuts trying to figure it out,, and then there is the fact that many of them don't work properly (heaven forbid they give you one that works, and people "steal from one dept. to another for this reason"... I could go on about the "write up" if you don't take your lunch when assigned or be "written up"...and do not take time chatting or helping anyone,, there are "mods" to be worked..
Because this was a job for "fun" they were shocked when I told them I was leaving because it wasn't "fun" anymore...:)
I worked Sunday's cause there were no "bosses" and it was like running my own little shop,, the good customers came in that day and I sold more on that day than they did all week,,, but that's not the "Walmart" way...
Hey, I shop walmart all the time and am greatful for it's locations and bargains of convenience.. but there should be a middle ground somewhere,, especially since all that's left around here is them or Joann's!!:)
ps.. tearing fabrics only works well with the "better quality" fabrics... the lower thread count, just pulls threads and puckers..
There is a quilt shop not 'that' far from me and they snip the edge of the fabric and carefully lift out a couple threads, snip and lift, snip and lift - across the whole width. You should have seen how long that took when I bought 112" backing fabric - but, you know what? It was STRAIGHT. I've never seen anyone else do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobW
I don't shop there to much except for shampoo and pet food, oh and the plant dept. When I did buy fabric there they actually took a cut piece back with the receipt. I was surprised.
So for tearing, I don't mind it if they do it in the right place so it's even. But for her to say it's big enough, that is so wrong. I'm glad you took it back. Most of my shops will give an inch bigger to make sure. I had one time where I had to say that's looking a little short. I hate to correct people at their jobs, but you are paying for their mistakes.
I was at aldi's one day and the cashier told me that they are clocked on how many items are scanned per hour (minute?? Not sure of the time frame)... then I had the one cashier who banged my bag of chips around while she was trying to scan it. I was thinking of telling her nevermind cuz I didn't want smashed chips when the bag opened from her mishandling. She said "oh, this bag is open... do YOU want to go back and get another?" Uh. No. Forget about the chips. Then she called the supervisor over to void the sale and said to the superv... "this bag is open and she doesn't want another".
I do still shop there because I have many more pleasurable interactions and their prices cannot be beat :-)
Off of original subject, but.....we now have Common Core in schools. Does anyone remember "New Math"? It's only going to get worse.