Yesterday I used my Jo Ann's 50% coupon to buy a bolt of no-iron 90 inch muslin - saved $37.50. AND the manager showed me where it was by walking me the length of the store to the muslin.
When I have several different fabrics cut, I fold while the clerk cuts. I think of it as a courtesy for the women in line behind me.
I guess I'm lucky the local store hasn't become a super store yet. Sometimes I fume to myself about the too narrow aisles, but maybe I shouldn't.
I've never had the problem of the register or the fabric thingy ringing up the wrong price - but I always have the 'right' price in my head as a 'check' anyway. Comes from long habit at grocery stores.
I went to Michael's yesterday, too. I had 40% and 50% coupons. They would only let me use one of them. Said it's a new policy. I was ready to spit. Why do they have 2 coupons in their flyer?
I used my Michael's 50% coupon on 5 Olfa blades, and I was startled to see that they have a new policy on that, too. People have been stealing them, and returning them for cash, because (the clerk said) Michael's doesn't require you to have a a receipt. So instead of hanging the 5 blade package on the pegboard like they hang the 1-blade package, they hang a plastic thingy that says 'The clerk at the register will give you the blades when she rings up your purchase.' It took the clerk 5 minutes to find the blades in the nether regions of the store. Meanwhile, a line was building up behind me. It seems to me that it would be better for Michael's to stop allowing returns without a receipt!