Play It Again Sports — Local services in Alaska

Went there with my wife to look for some ice skates. One of the employees came over to help us and seemed to be very knowledgeable about the skates and sizes/brands/styles...etc. He did not have anything in my size (I do have big feet so not a surprise to me) However, he said the same about my wife who is a perfectly normal shoe size...nothing in stock despite there being hundreds of skates all around us. Note, we were looking at the entry level beginner skates and pricing. My wife asked if they had a pair in her size of the next level up skates. The guy helping us said, VERY sarcastically...."you want to try on a pair of $250 skates??" As if we are white trash unable to afford such a luxury....Annoyed I said, well she wants to get an idea of her true size in case she finds something on facebook...obviously you have nothing here is stock for her. The guy replied again, "You want me to do all the work so you can go buy them somewhere else? Ok..." and he walked away. Appparently handing my wife a box of skates a few paces to his left is a difficult task and heavy work. We would have absolutely bought skates on the spot had any been available. Not...

Staff were very helpful as long as I went to find one of them myself. However, they would help others from the time they walked into the store, made a purchase, and walked out. We ourselves walked in and were greeted with smiles, no words, we asked a question and were pointed in the direction of similar items. They didn't carry what we were looking for in particular, but that's Alaska. Another person stated he'd show us where the items were. And he did. Then he walked away. We found what we needed and asked another associate for assistance getting items from up high, 1and he brought a ladder and left it there after he gave us the wrong size and walked away. We used the ladder to grab the right size, and then we purchased it and left. They were kind, though. Even let my son use...

I went to the midtown store to look for ice skates for my 5 year old. The worker suggested that he can call the south side store to see if they had any. Well 5 minutes went by I was walking around and seen that young worker, he said the south store didn't have any. I could tell by his facial expression that was a fib! Soo I decided to go to the south side store and there was ice skates in my 5 yr old size. I was like hummk... well the midtown Play it again sports had reasonable prices for their skates. $14 & up. When I got to south store they all were a flat of $29.99. I'm not sure if I'll be back to any of their stores soon! The guy at south Play it again sports was very...