Michaels — Local services in Encinitas

I've been coming to this Michael's for basically forever, it reminds me of when I was younger and would come in with my mom.

The store feels pretty cramped when you walk in, and sometimes it feels like a visual overload. I know they have been working on revamping the front entrance so that it's more spacious and not so visually overwhelming.

There have been numerous occasions that I have come in to purchase an item in mind, and have experienced long waits for check-out. Usually a line of at least six customers in front of me, not including customers already at the open check-out stands.

Sometimes it is hard to find a store employee to ask for help in finding an item or to ask any question in general.

Other than that, it is a good store and sometimes has products that I can't find at the newly opened La Costa Town Square Michael's Arts &...

Great store. It has really improved over the past year or so. Plus, the people seem so much nicer and better informed. I don't usually shop the baking section but needed gift bags for my home made breads and granola. I was really surprised by the amount of cooking and baking supplies on hand. I did purchase 4 of the small ceramic loaf pans and have used them. I think my breads came out better in them than the disposable aluminum pans I normally use. I will buy some more. Easy to clean. Threw them in the dishwasher. Super! Tons of holiday decorating supplies. Bonus! The lady checking me out, actually knew how to use my cell phone for my coupons. A+++ The old checkers knew nothing about cell phone coupons. Thanks for the...

Art framing disaster be warned! If I could rate zero I would. We took a very expensive large painting to have the canvas stretched and framed, in short they did a terrible job, the canvas has wrinkles and the overall quality of work of the framing is terrible after paying almost a grand for the framing. So bad in fact we took it to a professional framing store to have it redone as we couldn’t take the chance of taking it back to Michaels to have it corrected for fear the piece would be completely ruined. Not to mention Michaels delay in getting the material with poor followup and service. Ultimately in retrospect I should have taken it to a professional framer the first time, I should have known better so learn...