Rocky Mountain Canary Store — Local services in Cripple Creek

My family visited Cripple Creek today to ride the train. While we were waiting, we decided to walk up the road to find some survivors. We decided to go into this business. Everything was fine, until we got up to the check out. My mother asked if they had batteries since the batteries in her camera died. The old lady at the register had a VERY poor attitude and was incredibly rude. Another employee had to come check us out because she was too busy talking to a local gentleman and giving us rude looks. I was finally able to pay and when we were leaving the store, there was a TINY sign on the BOTTOM of the door that said "NO PETS ALLOWED." Her poor attitude made since then. She not once told us that our very well minded tiny dogs were not welcome in the store. Mind you, 2 of them were carried through most of the store and the 3rd was kept on a tight leash! Had the sign been EYE LEVEL, we would've walked right by and gave our money to another pet friendly shop! Avoid this store and spend your Money at the train depot, where they actually have stuff worth what you pay for or go an hour south to Manitou Springs where dogs are welcome in EVERY store, no...

We walked in looking for t shirts from Cripple Creek, had not made it to the area where the t shirts were shelved and this white or bleach blonde haired lady walked up behind us snapping rudely at us saying she guessed that she would have to take the scenic route to get through! We moved out of her way and began looking at the shirts, I was near the stairs in back of the shopping area and she came by and I apologized for being in her way. We purchased almost $200.00 worth t shirts and decided to get some ice cream. My oldest grandson (16 years old) witnessed this same lady eating ice cream with a spoon out of the serving buckets in the cooler at the serving counter. (multiple times) She saw him standing there looking at the ice cream making up his mind and she turn to a coworker and says “I wish that family would leave they have been in my way since they walked in”. I confronted her about comments and reminded her that I had just spent $200.00 in that business. I will take my money elsewhere, I highly recommend you do the same. The lady that checked is out, her name was Willow. Willow was very courteous and apologetic for...

The BEST ice cream in town and anywhere I've had ice cream in a long time! Their chocolates are awesome too! I love all the little unique gifts and wide variety of t-shirts, sweatshirts and Cripple Creek merchandise, and I think the prices are very reasonable, especially for a tourist town! Great place to pick up a souvenir and get a sweet treat! Willow is the employee who always seems to be working when I go in, and she is a lovely, friendly, helpful person with anything that I'm shopping for (and we always wind up getting ice cream no matter what else we buy!). She scoops the best ice cream too--despite the freezer sometimes freezing up and making some flavors too hard to scoop. She tries very hard to please her customers (from what I've witnessed). It's a shame that tourists have encountered nasty people working there in the past, hopefully they've fired whoever those miserable people were! Take another chance, look for a beautiful, fashionable looking brunette named Willow and she'll take good...