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.