be prepared. it's a company called hometownthreads (i think u can franchise them & move in) or something. they will soon have no only tranfers and flex, but be doing emboridery and screening too! sons a beaches! but in this business...hopefully for everyone. it's the creative mind that makes the buck not the minimum wage pimp face with a smiley face button, that knows how to scan/work a printer and drop an iron on a piece of paper then collect $20....oh well, if worse comes to worse...we can kidnap sam walton.....haha j/k
be prepared. it's a company called hometownthreads (i think u can franchise them & move in) or something. they will soon have no only tranfers and flex, but be doing emboridery and screening too! sons a beaches!
Wrong answer.
What you see on the Wal-Mart website is not Hometown Threads. Wal-mart is competing against their tenant, an independently owned franchisee that leases space from Wal-Mart.
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oh well, if worse comes to worse...we can kidnap sam walton.....haha j/k
You will need a shovel, Sam has been dead for a while....
When this type of custom 1 off's work is placed in the hands of big chains at retail level, when client returns start bouncing back because of minor errors and such.... they may re-evaluate its benefits against their brand face value.
As much as a perfect plan may seam, the actual CUSTOM work involved is something more of a specialty for such specialized shops and not really geared for large retail chains (may be as a temp promo). This is why large custom t-shirt chains in malls come and go.
The cost of 1 single error shirt is a large percentage loss to be tacked on to the selling price. As we all know, when price is a power-point, how low can you really go ?
Custom - Error/Screw-ups.
This was the problem that photo copy retail places encontered during the 90's after realising that making CUSTOM shirts with CLC Transfers was not as simple as it appeared. For every CUSTOM shirt error, CLC paper jams etc... and due to high turn over of Low paid employees and the training involved, it made it not worth it for them. As you can see today the number of copy places that make CUSTOM shirts is far less.
This Custom thing, is what it is. Custom, a one on one type deal...I think.
So, because it's being sold directly to the end user at retail level and with the quality control being a major factor along with maintaining the low price points....... I'm curious to see how far and how long this will last.
But then again, big chain-box stores do sell a lot of everything.
Walmart now selling personalized apparel 
Heat Transfer Paper Price List
