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| - I have a love/hate relationship with Michaels.
I am not into crafting, but over the last few months I've had to frame around 200 pieces of artwork, making Michaels a necessary evil.
On the plus side, you are almost always guaranteed that no matter what your framing need is, Michaels IS going to have what you are looking for, period. In addition to that, almost everything in the frame department is generally either 40%-50% off, or buy one-get one, etc....so the prices which are normally high, are usually reduced to normal, or at least reasonable.
The downside is that you need to plan for extra time, for a couple of reasons.....
First, they are always understaffed. So while there may be 6 registers, I've enever seen more that 1 or 2 open, so that usually slows the process down considerably if there are a few people in line.
Secondly, and maybe it's me, but it seems that almost every time I go, at least one of my purchases doesn't ring up at the sale price, causing someone to have to go look. Which when you are short-staffed to begin with, can be exhausting.
So in short, Michaels gets a 3. Not bad, but not great.
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