Hobby Lobby Creative Centers

 

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Christine Y.

Lombard, IL

Hobby Lobby is a really hot abusive boyfriend. In a sick way you are so attracted to the amazing sales on a great selection of home decor and craft and art supplies. They undercut the prices of all other fabric stores and have low low prices on everything from bandannas to vibrant food dye.  

The problem is that this stores check outs are reminiscent of high school social studies class after lunch.  They are so long and boring that you want to run screaming from the store yelling "I CAN"T TAKE IT!!!"  You also have to ask yourself why are the prices so low?  Where are these goods coming from?  If it's too good to be true it usually is.

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Christine E.

Addison, IL

This place is my weakness.  I can never go in and just buy ONE thing.  There's always something else that catches my eye and before I know it, my basket is full of stuff that I will put in a box to use later, yet never see again.  That is, until Oprah has an episode on "Hoarding" and my family does a "Hobby Lobby" addict intervention.

The selection is pretty good and the prices are great (especially that 40% coupon).  Check out can take a while, but I think that the overall quality of the store makes up for it.

Get on their email mailing list, that way you'll get all their sales in your inbox every week.

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Rachel S.

Downers Grove, IL

Generally I am a fan of Hobby Lobby.  They have tons of stores around the Chicago area.  They have great sales every week (check online for coupons).  They have everything you could want for crafting - fake flowers, vases, picture frames, custom framing, fabric, yarn, embroidery, drawing/painting/art materials, beads, scrapbooking, holiday items/ornaments, greeting cards, and other home decor items.

Hobby Lobby has a bad checkout system.  I don't mind waiting in line, but the cashiers are usually high school kids that don't know anything about crafts!!!  8 out of the past 10 times I've been there I've probably been given way too much of a discount because the cashiers don't know the products they're selling and becaus the cash registers are manual.  This would all be fixed with a computerized cash register system, but switching over is apparently too expensive for this retail giant.  If you ask me...they're losing more money than they would if they switched over!

Recently, I had a bad experience at this hobby lobby.  I tried to purchase something in the custom framing department only to have the staff be incredibly rude to me.  I'm not planning on going back to this location.  I'd recommend the location on Main St. in Westmont.  Much nicer staff in custom framing.

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Sharin F.

Lawrenceville, GA

OMIGOD.  This is like a craft slut's mecca of hobby porn!  I popped in today because my doctor is near here to grab some new knitting needles and OH MAN.  This place is just HUGE and friggen' packed to the gills with EVERYTHING HOBBY RELATED EVER.  I want to have long, slow, sensual, dirty sex with this store.  I'm more of a knitter than anything else and they had SO MUCH YARN.  SO MUCH.  SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Tons of knitting needles, replacements for those awesome Boye circular needle packs that I want so bad, tons of everything!  

They were having really great sales all over the place too!  They had this gigantic, sexy red glass vase for half off so it was only $25.00!!!  There was actually NICE cloth in the clearance section and I got some adorable yarn for half off as well.  I seriously can't wait to go back!  It might be sort of a trek out there, but it's so worth it!  My birthday's coming up people, so cough up those gift certificates!  Mom,I KNOW you is reading this!  Hobby Lobby is my new boyfriend!

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Robyn C.

Wheaton, IL

A 4.5...would be a five if they had, at any time I was there, more than two registers open.  Yarn supplies are very good and they have enough hobby stuff that the husband even finds things to look at while I'm browsing.  (Okay, it can't keep him busy THAT long, but any little bit helps.)  Watch the ads, don't buy anything unless you absolutely need it at that moment because everything goes on super sale every couple of weeks.

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nicole z.

West Los Angeles, CA

Since I don't live in this area anymore, this is one store I really miss and would hope they'd make their way out to the west coast.  All we have here is crappy ol' Michaels.  You will find EVERYTHING here.  EVERYTHING.  Decorations for your house, painting supplies, model kits, fabric, artificial flowers, party supplies, dollhouse accessories, scrapbooking supplies, furniture, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc!!  Oh and you will find good sized canvases at a pretty reasonable price too.  And a whole aisle dedicated to stickers! This store is three times the size of Michaels and easily twenty times better.  

I actually worked at this location when I was in high school, and I know that quite a few people still work there, so they know their stuff.  Be patient with the cashiers, please, prices need to be typed in by hand and they have to pretty much memorize what's on sale every week.  But they rarely make a mistake, so no worries about that!  Hopefully their registers will be updated soon (or have they already?), to make everyone's lives a bit easier.

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