Market Bazaar — Local services in Midlothian

Went in today looking for nothing in particular, but found five items I wanted to purchase. Two items didn't have price tags on them. Debbie, the exceptionally rude, condescending, and passive aggressive cashier, called each vendor to get the price, but neither answered. I didn't want to come back later for the items - I have no time for that, so I left with only 3/5 items. There are MANY other businesses locally with multiple vendors who are MUCH BETTER executing this business model. It is absolutely RIDICULOUS that: A.) Vendors don't have consequences for not adding a price tag to their items and B.) The cashiers aren't able to make a decision on the price of the item. If vendors aren't diligent about pricing items in this sort of store and then don't answer the phone, people won't shop there. YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT MAKE IT HARD TO DO BUSINESS WITH YOU!!!!!! If people find it too hard to shop there (ya know, multiple trips to try to purchase something), vendor sales go gown. If vendor sales go down, they start vacating their booths. If they start vacating their booths, the Market Bazaar owners don't collect rent. If the Market Bazaar owners don't collect rent....POOF! BUILDING FOR LEASE!

**Other note: Ron, the manager, was generally nice, but didn't resolve my issue and didn't leave me with the confidence that he would address the issues that occurred today. However, Ron should consider coaching the younger gentleman on customer service. Laughing when not appropriate, smart alack comments/smirks/giggles, and general disrespect towards customers isn't the path to customer retention or, really....successful adulthood.

95% of my retail dollars are spent at small, local businesses. I will find another one who is not only more organized (and allows people to actually purchase their merchandise) but is KINDER to their customers.

This market sector (multi-vendor/flea-market/antiques) is built on impulse purchases - not ones you have to make multiple trips for.

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This is the place for deals. It’s a junk shop, but it’s always fun. Inside the floor is split into different self-run booths, so every 10 feet or so is a new vendor. But you don’t have to worry about pushy sales people - no one hardly ever staff’s the booths individually. And we’ve always had an employee to help us lift stuff into the truck or car when we needed it. But if you want to make a deal, the cashier will call the booth owner and see if your offer will be accepted. It’s really great!

We’ve bought some of our favorite furniture here, but it’s hit and miss. We sometimes go here just to look and see what they’ve got. A true deal hunter will go more often than we do, and it would probably pay off. Whenever we need a piece of furniture or an interesting piece of decor, my first thought is to check out Market Bazaar. You should definitely give it a shot. And then come back again to...

This place is spacious and that’s about it. They describe themselves as “the largest antique store around,” but if you’re looking for antiques - save your time. A lot of stuff felt like the bathroom clean outs of estate sales or eBay dealer runoff inventory they couldn’t sell. I can mind a few craft vendors but a lot of booths are international imports and factory-made. The plus is that it’s huge and clean; but if you fill the place with all very similar vendors it makes it hard to find anything unique. It definitely has potential but I’d love to see less cheap import items, beanie babies and goodwill...