Wal-Mart, what's up with the yarn???!!!

I am getting REALLY sick and tired of watching the yarn supply at Wal-Mart getting red tagged. It's inevitable what'll happen next: get rid of the Bernat, Caron, and Lion Brand, keep only the Red Heart Super Saver, which means the supply of yarn is halved, pitch the fabric dept. That's what happened at the Staunton Va Wal-Mart, and now the layout of the whole store (except grocery) is ALL bass ackwards, has NO logic to it, it looks like a bunch of people took some hits from the bong, and decided to move whatever to wherever. The 'crafts' section there looks like an afterthought. Although if you scrapbook, you should be OK.

The thing that Wal-Mart administration needs to get clued in on is that while scrapbooking IS a craft or hobby, not EVERYONE does it. Not to mention that their fabric and crafts section is sometime THEE closest and affordable place around to get yarn and fabric, and some people's livelihood depends on the craft section, since they might sell their finished product for household income. Or even a supplier for charitable items! When i lived in Beckley, WVa, Wal-Mart was the closest place you could get yarn (there's a Hobby Lobby there now so i've heard), the next closest place was South Charleston, 1 1/2 hrs. away. By the time you blew the petrol to GET there, you didn't HAVE any money to get anything once you got in the store.

I'm still researching this, and trying to come up with a form letter to DO something about this crap. Till then here's a few links that's i've bookmarked, and sharing, in case this might be a cause or concern for other crafty people.

Save the Fabric Centers in Walmart Stores A Care2 petition site gear towards the fabric dept. of Wal-Mart. The closing of the fabric depts. seem to go hand-in-hand with the yarn depletion.

Walmart Craft/Fabric Departments Closing A ipetitions site, after signing, you'll have a prompt for a donation afterwards. A DONATION IS NOT REQUIRED TO SIGN THE PETITION.

Is Wal-Mart Listening? This is a post in Debbie Colgrove's sewing blog that provides a few numbers, ideas, and links to act on this.

And last but not least the good ol' Wal-Mart Corporate Website.

If any of those links do not work for you, please let me know. I clicked on them and they worked for me, but i'm also not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to stuff like that.

My plan is to create a petition specific to the yarn BS. I will post the link for it once i figure out how to create one.