Walmart fabric department closure

I have been gad abouting and for your information, Ms Garcia does no what is going on and refuses to tell in order to prevent pandemnoiuom in the streets of Del Rio.

The stores that are being opened across the country are without fabric on their shelves. The employees claim (they work there) that fabric was not an item on their to sell list.

Wal Mart is considering keeping fabric in the stores that are on the border claiming the tourists (people from across) are good customers. The hell with the locals from the US.

Believe me, Your friend Ms Garcia knows this!

Buying good quilting fabric at $2.00 a yard is great for those of us who sell our quilts. We are able to make a profit, where as the $3.96 a yard and higher prevents profit. We do go fabric hunts around the state, but have to able to spend our money well in order to stay alive.

People along the border do not know what it takes to make a quilt and frown on the prices being offered them. I know we go as low as possible that is why we send our wares to a quilting friend in Terlingua, Tx who has the benefit of selling to travelers.

See, no pandemonium and there is no need for your nasty sarcasim. Your user name becomes you!

Well Chuck, this is all just my opinion as I don't have any hard facts at my fingertips, only experience and education. First off I believe that you are absolutely right about the fact that they didn't present their merchandise well. But there was more to their failed business synergy. For example freshness of product, or rather rotate the old stuff, product that keeps up with trends and styles and so on and so forth. Then there is variety, ease and width of selection and the big killer "Price". I believe that the stores downtown only lasted as long as they did because their customer base didn't want to either walk or drive all the way across town. But the pressure was inevitable.

Forcing an existing business out of town is not a quick thing "in most cases". It's like the slow inexorable growth of a simple tree root under a sidewalk. Sooner or later there is a crack and then upheaval. Or maybe a better example would be the fact that starvation does not happen overnight but its conclusion is the death of the entity. Those stores would have had an established customer base that would not "again in most cases" wither over night. A slow leaching of customers would happen. And when the customers were confronted with all the things that I listed above "in the positive" then they either slowed their purchasing or prob never went back to the older stores. It's something that Wall Mart is both famous for and very good at; it's one of the reasons that they are so successful. When you hear of communities lobbying against Wally World opening its doors near to or in them, this is one of the prime reasons.

As for incentives that should be presented to incoming "New" businesses, well I would list the following in no particular order of importance. Tax breaks period are a huge way to entice business. Whether they be, county, city or state. These breaks would be for only a short period of time to enable the new fledgling business to grow or form a customer base before being hit fully in the face with all the costs. Laying ground work ahead of time for the incoming business in the form of, help with permits “teaching what is required”, help with labor pool issues “of which there is a plethora” and marketing studies showing an interest in their product. A pre-existing building would be an additional incentive. Again these are just my initial thoughts since from my educational experiences these are the things that “Big” businesses are interested in when they move into a community.

And believe it or not “cheap” labor can be too cheap. One of the labor pool issues is an undereducated work force. A business or rather any business is interested in getting the biggest bang for its labor force buck. We would have to convince any incoming business that they would be able to hire again and again from local available talent. I can’t even tell you how valuable a motivated, dedicated, hardworking and honest manager is. The owner may be the brains of the operation but the manager is the heart that pumps the blood to the brain and all the other functions.