Not sure when the Grand Opening was... or is... but I had a coupon, so I stopped in to see if they had the yarn I needed. I kind of like all of the furniture they have at the front of the store before you enter and if I wasn't planning on relocating in the near future, I probably would have been suckered into buying some of it! As I walked in, it was very much like every other Hobby Lobby I have been to, even had the new store smell!
Seemed to be fairly busy. It didn't look like there were signs for the aisles, so I kind of had to guess where the yarn was located. Some of the shelves and racks still look at bit bare, which is why I said that I wasn't sure if they had the Grand Opening yet or not. The yarn section seemed a bit small compared to JoAnn Fabric and Michael's and it seems to be all Hobby Lobby brand. Some of it looks just like other brands, and for some of their lines, they have quite the selection of colours, but for some of the lines, the selection is slim. They do seem to have a larger selection of crochet hooks, including Tunisian Crochet Hooks, which is nice since not many places sell them. I use the aluminum Boye hooks, which they do not carry, however, their store brand, Yarnology, seems to be the same make as the Boye hooks.
I was also looking for some buttons, so I headed over to the fabric department. The buttons are in the back corner of the department and while some of the buttons are quite nice, they just have one stand of buttons. I could do with a nice haberdashery store with a large selection of unique buttons, but I settled on a variety pack of oversized buttons. There was a staff member hovering around customers and she seemed to be driving people away more than helping them. The lady who rang me up at the register was having a rant about how annoying the manager at the front was with his long status update over the walkie talkie. And apparently they do not have scanners, so they have to type in the cost of each item and what category it is. With as nice as their computer system looks, you would think they would have scanners to help make check out a bit quicker. read more