Ashley,
I had the exact opposite experience. Although I enjoy hand quilting, due to time constraints, I mostly do machine quilting. I went to a LQS for some advice on a project and I was pretty much told that this shop catered to hand quilters and they would be happy to show me the hand quilting solution to my problem (which I accepted gratefully). They gave me the impression of being kind of "snobby" and I felt that they looked down on machine quilters by some of the remarks they made. I never went back to that particular shop and I think I heard that they are no longer in business.