Morning Glory — Attraction in New York

I bought retractable crayons from here, the type that are encased in plastic, and they were broken upon opening. The crayon piece was cracked deep into the plastic piece, so when my child tried to use it, the crayon part kept falling out(if you have used these crayons, you’ll know what I mean). I should have known these were poor quality/ old, because they were covered in a old white film. I just loved how cute the store was and wanted to buy them anyway, but now realize I shouldn’t have. A lot of the employees here are rude. One time I came in with a beverage, and I saw the sign that said I wasn’t supposed to have a drink but my friend wanted to go inside the store right after we went to Tbaar, so what was I supposed to do? Wait for my friend outside? I kept the drink close to my body to avoid spilling, and I didn’t touch anything, I was trying to be respectful, none of the 4 employees walking around said anything to me either. At the end when my friend and I were checking out, one of the employees who seemed like a manager, very rudely told me no drinks allowed like I was a toddler, and handed me a bag to hold my drink in? I’m not even sure how that made sense to her, I could easily spill my drink that way. I put it on my drink and attempted to hold it (felt very weird), and immediately pulled it off. We were about to leave the store, I was not about to potentially spill my drink in a bag(and possibly on the floor!) when we were literally about to leave. Instead of shopping and spending money, should we have left? Just because I have a drink? Word of advice: ask the customer if they want to put their drink near the registers, don’t be rude to them while they’re paying/ leaving, and make sure your employees aren’t too shy to do such. Items here are overpriced, and don’t even get me started on that cheap clothes that’s sold there too by sublease. It’s ridiculously expensive, when boutiques across the street have cuter clothes for reasonable prices. I’ll pass on shopping here. They do indeed follow you around creepily like other reviews...

Cute overpriced little shop. I had stopped by this shop last week and bought some cute presents. Service was great and they also do free gift wrapping if you spend over a certain amount.

Today I stopped by to pick out some last minute gifts with my brother. Everyone was very friendly except this one Asian employee with shoulder length dyed red hair. This particular employee was very nice to my brother and even handed him a basket to put his stuff in. Unfortunately, I was treated differently by her. I came for a certain merchandise that was displayed on one of the shelves in the middle aisle. It had a sign do not touch. I waited for someone to come but no one did. I decided to bring the two items to the cashier to let her know I would like to purchase it which I probably should’ve just went up to her and told her instead.

I grabbed it and was about to walk away until this employee came out of nowhere, yelled at me telling me to not touch. She grabbed it from me and told me again to not touch, word for word, I replied “ okay, but I want to buy this”. She just said okay, turn her head and rolled her eyes. I have never encountered anything like this. I understand it was my fault for touching it but this is not the way it should be handled. I saw her putting the items back and I had to ASK her, are you grabbing me new ones from the back? She didn’t say anything but nodded her head slightly in annoyance. She could’ve nicely explained to me that she will be grabbing me new ones in the back. I waited by the cashier thinking that she was going to bring it there. No one came and then my brother came up. Apparently it was in HIS basket already. For your information, my brother was not the one that had requested for it nor the one purchasing it.

This small little shop is very cute and convenient for last minute overpriced gifts but service is a hit or miss based on the majority of the reviews here.

To the red haired employee: if you are going to roll your eyes, you definitely need more practice on hiding it...

Adorable little Korean store that sells very cute Asian themed products such as bags, stuffed animals, umbrellas, contact lenses, makeup, lunchboxes, and stationary. With all the cuteness and cartoon prints (well featured are Hello Kitty, Totoro, and various other cartoon animals from Asia), it is obvious that this store targets children and teens. I visit the shop mostly to buy stationary. They have a nice selection of unique pens and pencils, mostly store-brand. Funny enough, I found replicas of the Pentel P200s there. Quality can be iffy, but they let you try them out so you know what you get. I am taking a star off for it being often a bit pricey without the adequate substance to back it up, not unlike most stores of its category. The prices are not significantly above market price here, but having visited China and seen how much they cost there, I'd say the profit margin is generous. There is a store across the street called Banzai that is similar in theme. They sell around the same things, though Banzai has a smaller selection. Something to note is that they employ an unnecessary amount of good-looking young men and women to guard the shop. While they are very courteous, they watched me a LOT the first time I went there. My friend and I found it very intimidating being watched and surrounded by good looking people. They all dressed up to emulate Asian idols, so we felt like the ugly ducklings and left without doing much browsing. My subsequent visits were more...