I had to post this…I was at Wal-Mart so I decided to check out the yarn section. While I was walking through I noticed a ball of yarn hanging from a hook in front of a swatch. The was NOT a swatch of any kind. the label was gone and the ball of yarn was just hanging there.It was nice and soft and they didnt have any yarn that matched it so I asked the lady in the craft department the price ( hoping to get a discount ) and this is what she said…“You cant buy that someone made it and it is a sample”.
What kind of sample has no pattern to it and is rolled up in a ball??
Am I going crazy or does she NOT know what she is talking about???
She would not sell it. Oh well :??
Did someone bring it from HOME and leave it there by mistake???
but if it’s a swatch then they SHOULD be able to tell you where it came from…
:shrug:
THAT’S WALMART FOR YOU!!! If you want filet mignon, you don’t go to MacDonald’s. :!!!: Sorry don’t mean to yell. I know WALMART may be cheaper than YLS but cheaper is not always better. That’s all I have to say on the matter.
Nadja xxx
Next time you are there, if the sample is still hanging there…see if a different clerk is working and try to get info to buy it. :happydance:
Amy
I refuse to buy yarn at Wal Mart. Ever since they tore up the one that I was used to shopping in…and rearranged the ENTIRE store…and the craft section went to half an aisle by electronics…
:wall: :wall:
I may be hard up for LYS around here…but Ill go to HL or Michaels first.
WalMart sells more than just RedHeart? Weird.
I don’t need to shop there now that I have my Options, but they were the only ones carrying decent sized, decent quality, decent priced needles for a while. :shrug:
[quote=“PaperGirl”]I refuse to buy yarn at Wal Mart. Ever since they tore up the one that I was used to shopping in…and rearranged the ENTIRE store…and the craft section went to half an aisle by electronics…
That is exactly what is happening at mine right now. What is with the 1/2 aisle for yarn? Mine has also completely done away with the fabric section- not that I sew any longer, but some people do. All about the $$$ I guess. You’d think
Who would make a “sample” and put it in Wal-Mart??? Sounds like maybe she didn’t have a clue. My Wal-Mart does carry Bernat and some other decent yarns, but the yarn section is always in disarray, it is awful. I don’t go there often because of that, and they always have pallets in the aisles and you can’t get down half of them. I used to love Wal-Mart but it seems ever since they decided to supersize themselves, they have really gone down hill. :verysad:
:teehee: i feel like i have to defend my wal-mart … 
mine actually has a pretty decent craft area, and actually had a sign up saying they weren’t closing withthe new remodel! yay! they carry caron simply soft (and others) lionbrand, some patons, redheart, and bernat. they do occasionaly have knitted/crochet swatches, but no FO’s. If they bothered to have a sample, then they probably carry what ever yarn was used to knit it up. i would ask her what yarn was used. they may just be out of stock :shrug:
before they axed the yarn dept, ours carried peaches n creme and sugar and creme in the mason dixon colors… no longer… I hate the store near me- always dirty and the products are a mess all over the store. I’ve been in a few that are actually nice, but not around here…
I have a lot of walmarts that I can shop at. They do not sell designer yarns but they do sell a few very nice quality yarns that I do use at times.
Maybe you can check out a different walmart for that yarn and see if you can find out what kind of yarn that “thing” was.
I feel the same as you-- :teehee: i went there to buy some Caron SS a few months ago, and the craft section was actually pretty impressive, they had lots of lionbrand, some bernat, and other yarns i don’t remember, but it was nice for a Walmart.
This kind of thing is the very reason I don’t shop at Walmart unless held at gunpoint…or I absolutely have no other choice. :wall:
I’m thinking it’s just that particular employee. Unfortunately Walmart doesn’t pay squat, so you’re going to get people who are horrible to customers.
Not all Walmarts are the same. I love mine. The craft section is nice and big, and the manager (?) of that area is awesome - she will let you look through the book and special order yarn that they don’t currently have in stock :cheering:
It has some good yarn. This paticular empleyee just did’nt know what she was talking about and didnt speak english very well.
Oh yeah, they sell several Bernat yarns and Caron’s big perfect match skeins and SS. A few Lion yarns too. And peaches n cream too.
sue
I wish they’d send some yarn over and make a craft section in my Asda (Walmart own them) :pout:
quote:[color=blue] walmart has some good yarn [/color]
define good!
I don’t shop walmart (NYC is unique in that it doesn’t have any, and i live next to a new developement that walmart wanted to rent space in, and there was a HUGE public out cry saying “no Walmart” the developer realize he wasn’t going to get a building permit with Walmart as a proposed tenent.
WalMart has a very limited supple of MOSTLY synthetic yarns (yarns all made from petrochemicals) and a small amount of cotton.
I am not a yarn snob, and i both buy and knit with synthetics (my grand daughters favorite knit thing is a poncho i made her out of Red Heart)
but the complete lack of wools, alpaca’s, blends (with silk, alpaca, cashmere or even wool and synthetics) is appalling.
there are 'value yarns" (elan’s, smileysyarn, knitpicks and others on line come to mind) if you can post here, you can learn about them (most will let you 'write up an order" and mail it in, (if like me, you don’t like using charge card online)
and remember you get what you pay for. ‘cheap’ is not just how the yarn is sold. its how they run the department, how they pay their employees, and how they treat the neighborhoods they locate in.
i don’t buy cheap. (not that i want to spend more $$) i just find that i can buy a good prices with out buying cheap!
I more or less have to shop at walmart. I work really weird hours, and it’s about the only place to get groceries when I get off work at midnight. Once in a while, I’ll pick up something out of the craft section-- mostly for making my stitch markers. They have beads, split rings in small sizes and eyepins, so why go elsewhere and pay more?
I live in a smallish town of about 25,000. It’s Wal-Mart or nothing. :shrug: We do have a small craft store downtown. She has a very small selection of yarns, mostly acrylics, though she has begun carrying Cascade; plus she has Lion Brand Fishermen’s Wool (which I buy and dye to use for felting projects). She’s really nice and accommodating and welcomes knitters to hang out and knit anytime we want, as well as hosts a weekly knit-together, so I buy as much as I can from her.
Our Wal-Mart carries strictly acrylics, along with Peaches’n’Cream cotton, and those are in very limited colors. :neutral: At least the sales ladies in the craft department are the same elderly ladies who’ve worked there for many years, and they’re really nice.