Northgate Shopping Center — Local services in Garden City

You may know this strip mall from such businesses as "the Albertsons on Glenwood", "the State St Los Betos", and "one of the last remaining Rite-Aid stores (somehow)". Lots of variety in the stores/places to eat here. Looks a little less run-down after the external remodel they did a little while ago.

My one major complaint about this strip mall is the parking situation. The parking lot—at least from Albertsons down to Rite-Aid, possibly further down as well, I'm not sure—is very old-fashioned and dated, it's annoying. Every row of parking is single-direction with angled parking spots. It's one of those parking lots where you have to drive one direction to the end of the row, then back up the opposite direction in the next row. You can't just enter any row from either direction like virtually every other 21st century parking lot (unless you have a tiny car with a great turn radius). It's...

I have always had good luck here. My phone suddenly quit working, and I took it in to this Cricket location. Josh (who is absolutely fantastic) somehow got it working temporarily, but when I went to the car and put in on the charger, it quit working again. Turned out it needed replacement (I confirmed at Batteries and Bulbs on Cole Road that the battery was fine, and my old charger was working in other devises). I took it back and bought a comparable phone for a descent price. Josh set it up so I didn't need to reenter my contacts manually. His service is stellar, and he needs to either be given a pay raise, or...

Papa Murphy's, tobacco connection, and Albertsons are stores I frequent regularly. All the employees at the locations are kind and hard working. The movie theater is okay but one time a drunk homeless guy sat behind me in the theater, talking to the movie because he believed it was talking to him. Ended up vomiting on himself and passed out. Was a great memory that I laugh about all the time. So I give the theater 6/5 stars for the extra...