Hobby Lobby

You know the scene that is common to movies, where a light shines from heaven when someone walks in somewhere, and angels sing, AHHHHHH-​AAAAHHHHHH!!!, and you know you have entered into the proverbial promised land… yeah…that’s what happens to me EVERY TIME i walk into hobby lobby. i cannot even BEGIN to tell you how much i love this place. I drive from Youngsville (Raleigh area) to get to this place (or the one in Rocky Mount) since we aren’t fortunate enough to have one.
What is hobby lobby you ask??? Welllll, let’s pretend you threw sunshine, singing angels, Garden Ridge, Joann’s, A.C.Moore, Micheal’s and a dash of Party City into a blender and poured out a store… IT WOULD BE HOBBY LOBBY!!!
Now some might say i’m a little biased b/​c i worked at a hobby lobby part time when i got out of college… but that was like 10 years ago, so i think my bias is no longer a bias. If anything it gives me knowledge of how to help you enjoy hobby lobby to the hilt!
It does not matter what craft or hobby you do, i’m pretty sure they have it here. Here’s a list of some of the things they have:
Papercrafting, scrapbooking, stained glass, make your own soaps, floral stuff (and they have some of the most beautiful ‘fake’ flowers and greenery you will see anywhere) sewing stuff, wood crafting, framing, home décor, cake decorating, party supplies, model cars and trains, painting, jewelry crafting, and any and every holiday need you might have… and that my friends is just scratching the surface!
So what tips will make you Hobby Lobby Savvy?! i’m so glad you asked!
1. the owner’s of hobby lobby are Christian, as a result they value family time and christian values. For Hobby This translates into two important factors for store hours:
a. CLOSED ON SUNDAYS!!! (good for them!)
b. CLOSE AT 8 P.M. so that people aren’t out all hours of the night working and can spend some time with family.
They also tend to close around 5 on a lot of different holidays. So call before you head over if it’s a holiday.
2. Hobby Lobby Prices: Hobby Lobby Price tend to be a little high HOWEVER just about EVERYTHING will go on sale about once a month. Sign up for their weekly flier that comes in your e-​mail and you can stay on top of what is on sale each week.
*IMPORTANT SALE INFORMATION: there are times that things go on sale and it is important to read the flyer. the flyer will ALWAYS list exclusions. A great example are the candles. more often than not when candles go on sale it will say something like ‘excludes LEDs and tealights’. I’ve seen a lot of people get cranky over this one. They’s say a tealight is a candle! BUT it’s in the exclusion part of the sale flyer, and typically tealights and LED Candles go on sale separate from regular candles. So before you go to the register and act like a donkey and get your panties in a wad, make sure you read the bottom of the sale flyer in the section you’re in, it will list exclusions.
3. COUPON! If it’s not on sale there is usually a 40% coupon either, in the news paper, in your e-​mail, or on their website. AND they will take the coupon off your smart phone, so no need to print it out. Now the catch is one person per coupon per day and if it’s already on sale, you can’t use the coupon with that item… but personally, i really don’t mind going to hobby lobby daily, heck, every time i’m near one, i’ll go in just to walk around even if i don’t need anything, just to see all the fun sstuff and get craft ideas
Alright, I think you are now hobby lobby savvy! GO! HAVE FUN! *angels singing* AAAAAAHHHHH-​AAAAAHHHHH!

I avoid Hobby Lobby like the plague.
Horrible service. Came to buy LED tea lights. The sign above everything on the entire candle isle read «all LED candles 50% off» and I believe something to the effect of excluding singles and it had to be above 2.99. Fine. I grab a 6-​pack of LED tea lights and head to the register. My husband completed the transaction, and when I checked the receipt afterwards, we were charged the full price. Here we go…
I wait patiently for other customers to finish checking out, then tell the cashier the tea lights should have been 50% off. FIRST, she glances over the receipt, and says, «It has to be a multipack.» There were 6 tea lights in the pack… I take the package out of the bag and ask her if that qualified for a «multipack.» Now, she clicks her tongue at me. She looks at the receipt again, and says, «well those are tea lights, the sale is for LED candles.» Oh my god. I could feel my ears burning. Tea lights are candles. Instead of mashing her face, I decided to just go back and read the sign myself…
In my absence, a manager appears, and said manager and cashier have a conversation amongst themselves about how people «just need to read the signs.» I know this because they didn’t bother to converse discreetly enough so that my husband STANDING RIGHT BESIDE THEM couldn’t hear them. They are very lucky I didn’t find this bit out until we were in the car.
After reading the sign and the twelve hundred exceptions at the bottom, my purchase did, in fact, fit the sale, as long as you knew a tea light was a candle. I go back up front and inform the cashier of this, who just repeats exactly what I say to the manager, standing 2 feet away. The manager never once spoke directly to me, or made eye contact of any kind. It was like I wasn’t there. I grew really tired of this middle-​man process, and just asked for a refund. No sense in standing around while these 2 fabricate more exceptions to the sale.
I have honestly had better customer service at Walmart, a store that I usually detest in every sense. But I bought tea lights there that night, at regular price, which was still cheaper than Hobby Lobby’s «sale» price at half off. I bothered to write an e-​mail to the company and they responded a week later with basically a «thanks for letting us know» and nothing else. I will NEVER go back.
And on the off chance that manager or cashier reads this review…