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| - This has long been one if my more favorite Joanns locations because it has a much bigger selection in every department than the ones closer to me. When they say it's a super store they aren't kidding. I especially like their expanded yarn department.
I did have one bad experience here. There was a sale on "embellishments" in the cardmaking department some time back, signs everywhere, but nothing was specified. Now, everywhere else in the cardmaking world, embellishments means buttons, brads, ribbons, etc that you attatch to the cards to, well, EMBELLISH them. But when I went to pay for the several such items I had picked out, the clerk, an older lady with an accent (German?) was ringing them up at full price. I reminded her that embellishments were on sale and she informed me these weren't embellishments. That literally stopped me cold. I recovered enough to ask, well, if they aren't embellishments, what are they? She said, Ribbons. Brads. Stickers. Flowers. I tried to reason (not argue) with her. What, in that case, WERE considered embellishments? She didn't have an answer. I set aside all the items that should have been on sale but weren't, so she wasn't happy with me. A couple days later I was at another Joanns and those same items were on sale, 40% off, no problem. When I told the clerk about my experience here, she was shocked and agreed with me that those items were considered embellishments. That's why I can't give this store more than three stars.
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