World Market — Local services in Cottonwood Heights

I love this store, it's definitely one of my favorite places to shop for unique gifts and snacks (from many countries, mostly imported). Their variety of foods come from all over, but it's all highly overpriced. Usually the candy and food can be found at the regional market for about 1/3 of the price, however you'd need to make several stops to get the same selection. Generally, the entire store is a bit expensive and marked above typical retail, but you definitely get a great selection of items from all over, so you're paying for that convenience. They also a lot of fair trade products as well as ethically made and eco friendly.

The furniture and knick knacks are especially fun, and they have a small toy section filled with old school, traditional, and eclectic little treasures, make sure not to miss this area! They have beautiful jewelry from all over the world and made in small batches, usually in villages, definitely worth checking out, these items, the accessories are usually the best bang for your buck.

The service here is usually pretty great. The staff is really friendly, and usually they try to be helpful. My only gripe is often they will only have 1 check stand open, so you can sometimes wait in line for quite a while.

This store offers a lot of variety in products; it makes a great stop for gift shopping, especially near the holidays. They have furniture, decorations, art and picture frames, soaps, lotions and bath items, toys, candy, food, jewelry, cookware, dishes, seasonal items, lighting and lamps, as well as a lot of other fun, novelty finds!

They offer a royalty rewards program, although I am not sure how it works; I shop here pretty often and spend enough money here that I thought I would have received a discount or promo code at some point, but I have yet to receive anything back from the program, maybe something to look into..

This store is pretty great though, you'll want at least an hour to spend here if you really want to look at everything. Anytime I come here, I usually end up leaving at least an hour later with a few bags and having spent a minimum of $50, so enter with caution and at...

Being a foreign national that moved to the USA, there are plenty of products that I miss from my homeland. They do sell certain items directly imported from my home country, as well as items from other countries that can be substituted in favor of another item that might not be easy to find. So, I do shop at them from time to time.

I used to be super excited to buy from them before I noticed a few things... Something to keep in mind, they don't only sell imported products, they sell certain products you can find in any old store too, and World Market will sell it at a higher or equivalent price by comparison. So you need to keep your eyes open when shopping.

Plenty of times you may also find it cheaper to simply order through an online importation store specific to the country whose items you desire. Or if you're lucky, there may also be an Asian or Indian store/market carrying exactly what or similar to what you are looking for, at a cheaper price than World Market does. This includes items like chocolates, coffee, tea, spices, and sauces even.

But if you're in a pinch and can't wait, or you simply like to try some imported items you've never tried before, or you're new to buying imported goods, then dropping by this store is easier.

There also isn't usually a big change in what new items they get into the store, it's pretty much staples of certain products you'll see there every single visit, with a seasonal importation of different items, which may or may not be the same come the same season next year.

EDIT: I actually feel a bit miffed now to find out that a specific section of this review is being used to promote this store entirely out of context of my actual review about World Market. I'm removing a star for that, it's simply dishonest to just highlight parts you like about reviews and ignore the...

Our experience at this store was terrible. We went in looking for kitchen chairs. Found some chairs that we liked so to save a few bucks we purchased them online for store pickup. One employee recommended that to save 10% and it would only take about 30 minutes to process the order and have the chairs ready for pickup. So after waiting around the store for a bit we asked another employee about our order. She told us that it would probably take 24 hours for the order to process and have the chairs ready for pickup. So to avoid waiting around we discussed with the employee cancelling the online order and just purchasing the chairs in store. After a few minutes the employee came back and told us they couldn’t find any of the chairs in stock in the store even though their system said they had six in stock. We decided to leave and just wait for our online order to be ready instead of cancelling it. About an hour or so after leaving the store we get the email stating that our chairs are ready for pickup. Magic since they couldn’t find them when we were physically there at the store. I head back to the store to pick them up. An employee starts to bring the chairs out and one of them has a dirty black mark on the back of the chair and bottom. Really? We just spent over $550 for a couple of chairs and you’re going to give me a dirty one? I complain about the dirty chair so they bring a new one out. I get home with the chairs. While testing one out in the kitchen we notice one of the wheels on the bottom is broken. Apparently should have checked those before leaving the store with them because I know I didn’t break it during transport home. My wife calls the store to let them know about it and the employee and manager basically call her a liar saying that the wheel wasn’t broken before we left the store. Great customer service....