Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft

This is a tough one for me, because if you need fabric and/​or sewing/​project items, this is my go-​to place, but the staff are usual never available to help and lines are often long.
Store: Jo-Ann’s is conveniently located in Shopping Center (next to Home Goods) off of Sample Rd. and 441 (just past Casino) in Margate. They have a lot of fabric, sewing equipment, accessories and other project items.
Note: Guys, this is where I get my dress shirt/​suit/​blazer buttons and fabric for my daughter’s last two costumes (Minion and Wonder Woman — check the pics)!
Staff: although they have a lot of items, it isn’t always easy to find things and the staff is almost never available to help and only a few have been friendly. I don’t like to leave a review that is down on the staff, but I hope management takes notice and provides the proper staffing, so that the staff aren’t overwhelmed.
Overall: I certainly recommend Jo-Ann’s for your fabric/​sewing needs, just be prepared to help yourself and spend some time, as lines for fabric cutting and checkout lines are often long.
Note: always go online and look for coupons (they usually have a 40% off any single item coupon), they are free and almost always available. Good luck!

This review will be short, but inclusive of what this store is about. Joann’s is my new go to place for arts and craft/​fabric needs. The customer service is pretty good when you can find an associate which may be a little difficult at time. You will always find an associate at the fabric cutting counter, but they are usually busy. My reason i like this store is usually any day of the week you can find a coupon on retail me not for at least 40% off or more.
The coupons may be found at
and click the Joann’s section. The coupons are good unless an item is already marked down or on clearance. Get to this store and check out all the goods.

Great variety of fabrics — unorganized fabric counter!

This is a fun place to go for all your sewing and crafting needs.
They have the biggest selection of fabric in the area. Okay, I know this isn’t saying a lot, but at least it’s something. There are sewing machines and accessories and notions.
The crafting section has a large variety of supplies for all kinds of crafting projects from bird houses to fabric painting. There are always current seasonal favorites, like gingerbread house kits.
The prices are generally reasonable. The best thing is that you are allowed to «stack» coupons and there are always plenty available, along with different store specials.
The big issue here is a lack of sales associates when you need to check out. I’ve never been there when we didn’t have to wait for an unreasonably long time to check out. This seems to be prevalent with the chain. It doesn’t matter which location we go to, it’s always the same. I even read a review of a location in CA that had the same complaint.
If they would make it easier to get in and out, I’d probably give it 4 stars, but I get tired of the same issue all the time.

All I can say is whenever I go to this Joanns in Margate, I just can’t beleive corporate is not notified they need more staffing. As a matter of fact I will be writing to them to let them aware they need more employees working there. Every single time I go there which used to be two times a week, there is a long line and only one cashier. come on you can do better than this!
I get sick to my stomach when I stay in line, and when the line gets super big, I’m furious that no one helps the single cashier!!!
This has to change. I mean is this a business? Really???

Eh this store is big for no reason they never have what i am looking for and the staff is always too busy to help you or each other instead of the manager coming up front to help the cashier with a transaction she was telling her what to do over the ear piece the young lady was having a difficult time and there was like 10 people in line poor customer service I will stick to the store on federal

I came in to use the great 60% off coupon I saw on the website. I noticed that the item I went to purchase was in a 50% section with no products only prices listed. I pick up two plus another product to use my coupon on. When I got to the register, they rang up at full price. I remarked to the cashier, Lori,“Oh, those aren’t on sale.” I didn’t ask her override the pricing to match the deceptive signage or even to check the sign because I had a coupon so it wasn’t a big deal. Immediately, I’m met with attitude and she barks at me that it’s not on sale and to pull up the coupon on my smart phone. I’m mildly put off by this but I hand her my PRINTED coupon and I’ll just use my other coupons on a separate transaction. She then scans it and barks at me again to pull up another coupon on my phone for the other items. I tell her that I printed it from the website so it’s going to be the same number but she argues with me that they’re different numbers. The service in the building is awful so my phone was taking a while to pull up the site, to which she remarks derisively treat it’s
. Obviously I know why the site is, that’s where I found the coupon. I have my boyfriend who’s standing close by to pull it up on his phone. Of course, the coupon he pulls up doesn’t work as it’s the SAME coupon that I printed earlier. The lady behind me offers her coupon and is promptly told that she can’t do that and use her coupon in her transaction afterward. I decline the coupon so she can use it. Lori was so incredibly rude, I’m horrified that Joann has such an unprofessional individual working in customer service. Will not shop here again.

So many goodies here. I could spend hours in here just thinning of all the great crafts i could do. Very clean store, very organized but didn’t see any staff except for one cashier. It was a slow day i guess. I must’ve spent over an hour in here just gazing looking for goodies lol. (I tend to lose track on time when i have intriguing things in front of me.)

On the hunt for pinky flamingo wear when I found myself at JoAnn. I asked if there was any flamingo cloth. The sales girl called on the loud speaker for flamingo msterial. Guess what I was presented with 2 kinds to choose from. Ren my sales girl showed me a 50% off online coupon which I was able to use. I guess I will be trying my hand at something flamingo ish for #YSB15

Slow slow amazing only one clerk on a Sunday. I like this store but they need to have more help we had trouble trying to find prices

I come to this location often. And I can’t say I always find what I’m looking for. They are always out of stock on some of the things I need, which aren’t always popular items, which tells me they either don’t reorder often enough, or miss a lot of stuff. They do take as many coupons as you have in one transaction as well as competitors coupons which is nice, but they’re often out of sale items on the same day they go on sale and don’t issue rain checks. Customer service wise, they are always understaffed. Unfortunately there isn’t many stores that sell fabric so I’m stuck coming here even though i rather not.

Customer service is non-​existent here. Before I could even finish asking for what I was looking for, their employee in the fabric section told me they didn’t have it. I asked for another type of fabric and she left to go check. After waiting like an idiot for awhile thinking she would return, I walked to another section to realize that she wasn’t looking for the material at all. I asked her if she had checked for the material I had asked about and she told me her manager left. Really!!! You can’t find out if you have a bolt of fabric without your manager being present? How preposterous!!!