Hobby Lobby

I love this HobLob. The people working there are always very helpful and there is a huge selection of items to choose from in all categories. Additionally, if I ever need any sort of decorations or items from my home I always check out Hobby Lobby because they always have great sales!

This place gets two stars, despite their corporate stances on, well, most anything, because they offer a small number of specific craft /​fine art items that are exceptionally hard to find, among their crappy and cheap looking homegoods blah-​blah.
The Math: Corporate’s absolutely effusive pro-​Evangelical Christian-​ONLY, ‘We don’t support /​cater to,“You people” (
) and «your» not-​Christian-​only holidays,’ which any effective business would otherwise chose to profit from, is pretty odd.
+ «Corporate has the right to decide medical benefits for any of you women (um, oops, girls!) who will ever be employed in any capacity, (though that certainly won’t be management, since you girls should be home, raising babies, given the legal decision against the business for sexist compensation and promotion actions)» (
) + anti-​human-​rights (see previous) + anti-​preventive-​medicine (see previous) + anti-​women fra-​fra
+ Viagra and peen pumps covered for employees through health insurance… Not sure why a lame duck isn’t the Will of G*d, but… well, ok.
= I’d rather send my money to Amazon, if at all possible, when I can’t find a local vendor.
All locations are closed on Sundays. I like that they’re looking out for their employees, actually, however inconvenient it may be. But one has to wonder whether the reason that they can’t be open on Sundays is that they don’t employ those whose religiously-​based day of rest is Friday /​Saturday or who are Agnostic or Athiest, given their anti-​all-​but-​Evangelical men” story.
But hey, this shouldn’t be a review of their corporate… let me confirm my opinion of the Columbus shop… It’s in a fairly blah strip mall. Shop next door was closed for months (if not years), before reopening as a party store.
In terms of layout, what I don’t like is that it’s a cluster to find what you’re actually looking for, even when, in theory, a single craft activity is involved… Half of the supplies for an activity are in one (usually easily identified) place, and half of it is in another, nearly always on the opposite side of the store, through a wicket of tacky, cheaply made, overpriced Chinese homegoods that fill the middle of this store. Identifying these «secret squirrel» secondary locations is nearly impossible. And signage is useless. Unbelievably frustrating to find specific items in this place — any trip always takes two or three times as long as it should.
Not my ‘happy place.’ Not at all.
It’s always hard (if not impossible) to find anyone allowed /​trained to cut & mark lengths of by the yard materials.
Prices don’t seem to be posted in an effective /​timely way (or consistently through a sales period). Stocking of products is strange, in terms of item slection, taste, stock levels, location, and staff knowledge.
The last time I was there, the checkout person literally never spoke a word to me, while taking upwards of five minutes to start checking out my order. It was profoundly bizarre. Really — one of the most puzzling commercial interactions I’ve ever had.

Ever since I moved to Portland, OR I have been missing Hobby Lobby. It has way more crafty goodness than a JoAnn fabrics store, great prices and about any new craft you want to try can be found here.
yeah, it’s annoying they aren’t open on Sunday, but I can get over it.