Jo-Ann Stores

If it’s possible, I hate this place even more than I did previously. My father-​in-​law buys gifts for his employees every year but usually has my husband do the actually leg work. This year, they were both so overwhelmed that they forgot a very important friend/​worker so I was forced to go to JoAnn’s at the last minute.
Ugh! Such a cluster f*ck of over priced sh*t!!! I had the lovely experience of attempting to buy a sewing machine — they only carry two brands, one being Singer (which is crap!) and another being a Viking (which ran no less than $ 250.00 @ the cheapest). I had bought a Singer sewing machine years ago– never again! so I wasn’t willing to take the risk of making yet another costly financial mistake again.
However, all I said to (who I thought was an actual JoAnn’s employee & later found out isn’t) this woman was «I have a Singer & it’s junk. What is your return policy if I purchased one and ran into the same unsatisfactory issues & explained what some of them were. I understand these things are incredibly expensive and you don’t want someone to break it & claim it was defective; I get it. But because of how expensive they are, I also wanted to get what I paid for… you cannot return any machine if you open the box. I’m sorry, this is bullsh*t, how could you possibly know if it works correctly unless you use it?!? So she continued to attempt to sway me to buy a Viking after explaining to me how Singer’s are poor quality machines & a lot of people complain about them… then why is it only one of two options sold? Hm… wasn’t buying her pitch.
She would not get off my rump about buying this $ 300.00 + sewing machine once she realized price was not an issue. She kept asking me «Have you made a decision yet»? while I was trying to read the options the other machines offered… she wasn’t having it. Let’s just say Target had more affordable and reliable options with no sharking involved.