Hobby Lobby

I like Hobby Lobby for a lot of reasons. This place has everything you can have for your hobbies and more. I love the fact that they keep this place clean and are always willing to help you out whenever you need it.

Clean, organized, friendly, and they were constantly stocking shelves to keep them looking nice and organized. Great staff with a good knowledge of the store :)

Went into today looking for some yard decorations for the holiday and they had the full stock of July 4^th decorations ready to go. The items I bought will do triple duty for Memorial Day, July 4^th and Veterans Day. Nice selection on the patriotic theme front.
Normally this store is packed and the check out lines take forever but it was pretty empty today so check out was a breeze.

I really love the framing department here. They are very helpful and detail oriented and careful with your piece of art. They offer great suggestions and they try to save you money .the finished products are always beautiful. Sometimes the checkout lines can be long and slow the store is clean and well organized and the prices are great.

I love all Hobby Lobby locations. They always seem to have great employees that are willing to help. The only reason I’m giving four stars and not five is because the prices are so marked up. I definitely use the 40% off coupons they have online. Otherwise, they have a great selection and you could spend hours in this place.

They have about everything you need and all the things you don’t need! I mean it’s a hobby store!

If you need something for crafting or decorating chances are you can find it here. My first stop when I need something for a project.

Love, love, love their framing center! Especially when it’s 50% off!
The guy was very helpful even framed two posters for me even though I could have done it at home.

Hobby Lobby, as any craft store, has its ups and downs. This Germantown location is the HUB of suburban housewives– crafters, scrapbookers, and quilters converge here, and there are almost always lines at every open register. The store is Christian-​centered, and it shows, with crosses everywhere, and Christmas available 9 months out of the year. My issues with Hobby Lobby are that they don’t have any Hanukkah items available for those of us with friends outside the religion (made buying bunco gifts very difficult one December), and that they play horrendous (to me, this is a matter of taste) contemporary Christian music. The prices are reasonable, and «Sales» are going on almost all of the time, on frames, paints, etc. It’s more likely that a sale is on than off.
I am a Methodist, and love everyone, especially Jeff D. in the framing department. If you want to talk Jesus and martinis in the same conversation, while having your artwork creatively framed, he’s your man. If not for the framing department, I’d probably just go to Michael’s.
*TIP* Go on your phone and google «hobby lobby coupon» and you’ll be able to pull up a coupon code for 20% off one item, right at the register.

Rude cashiers rule this place. First of all, the lines were very long because it was Christmas and they only had 2 lines open at 3 in the afternoon. A new line opened up and the lady called for the next person in line. I was 2^nd in line, but the lady in front of me told me go ahead and go to the new line. The cashier in the new line screamed at me, «NO SIR! GO TO THE BACK OF THE LINE!» The back of the line was now 10 people deep. I tried telling her that the lady in front of me told me I could go, but the cashier would not hear of it and kept pointing to the back of the line like she had turrets syndrome. I got angry and just dropped my things on the counter and walked out of the store. Unfortunately, the lady who let me go in front of her to the new line was out of the store by the time I got yelled at and could not back up my story.

Normally I wouldn’t give Hobby Lobby five stars, but in this particular instance, I have to. I’m looking around for flowers for my wedding, and I did not think it would be this freaking hard to find what I was looking for. What I want does not exist in nature so I’m going the silk route. I rarely buy flowers (real or fake) so I’ve just never paid attention to what craft stores offer, but I didn’t think it’d be hard finding brightly coloured daisies.
Every other place basically had… silk versions of what you’d find in a flower shop. Muted colours, and such, that is. What’s more is other places (including every Michaels I went to) had such a small selection and even as of over a month ago were already carrying what I guess were summer flowers (which were rather boring, I was surprised) and now carry autumn ones. Sucks for anyone wanting to make an arrangement even just for themselves to have for a vase at their house!
Anyway, back to Hobby Lobby. Their floral department I thought was laid out brilliantly, exactly how I would do it. Rather than a hodgepodge of flowers laid out with very little thought or organisation, here everything was done by… colour! And of course if there’s multiple varieties of a particular flower available for a colour or something, they’ll be grouped together. This method made it ridiculously easy to see if they had what you were looking for, and quickly see if they didn’t have exactly what you wanted, what did they have that was close. Rather than run from aisle to aisle looking at various daisies, I could look at all the blue daisies next to each other to see what would work best.
I agree with the previous reviewer, the customer service isn’t that great. It’s next to impossible to find anyone walking the floor, and it’s a coin toss if the cashier you get will be friendly or not. The framing department (where I normally spend the most of my time) is pretty good though. Oh, and if you can find someone on the floor, half the times when you ask where something is or such, you get to where they told you to go and there’s nothing remotely like what you were looking for. So just try to be very familiar with the store’s layout I guess, and be prepared to spend more time than you’d think looking for something in case you have to walk across several aisles.
Their customer service gets three stars, their selection five. Since they were also the only place in town that had the flowers I was looking for, that bumped them up a little.

The selection at Hobby Lobby is extensive, and I almost always find exactly what I’m looking for, especially when it comes to embroidery materials and yarn. The customer service, however, is poor. I’ve been a customer at this store for approximately five years, and have learned that if you are looking for help or just friendly service, Hobby Lobby is not the place to go. So long as you know what you are looking for, you’ll have no problem getting in and out, but look elsewhere for any advice on crafts, products, or any sort of real help.