i am a former employee of joanns worked there for 2 yrs ad yes they do check and for the various reasons that have been stated bothered me a little at first but i understood and accepted it after a short time. it is policy and since i still talk to the girls that work there i can tell you that although when i was working there no great hiest happened when i left 5 cricket expressions were stolen at once the cost of each of those machines at that time was 499.00 so the loss was substancial