Some good fabrics there and generally nice employees in THAT dept. Other depts, well, no so much.
Just be really careful on what you buy at HL. Their return policy is really strict.
I purchased over 20 skeins of yarn for an afghan. Took me about 3 weeks to complete the afghan and I had 2 left-over skeins. they refused to take them back for a refund because I was "past the limit" and pointed to the return policy sign. No way anyone could complete this project sooner. Joann's and Michael's never ever gave me a problem returning yarn.
So BEWARE!