Williams-Sonoma

Nice place inside. I got my girl a can opener and an ice scooper, bout all i could afford. Pricey but nice.

I recently visited the location on 119^th expecting to simply browse and ended up working with a few employees and the store GM. The thing I must say is how knowledgable, friendly, and helpful the staff are at this location. So much so that I’ve returned 5 more times to buy additional things to compliment my stainless steel cookware set.
To top it all off, the store called me today to let me know that the biggest purchase I reluctantly, but happily made, would be going on sale just as they had offered to do when I bought it. There are a couple locations in the KC area, but this is unequivocally the location I will always shop with from this point forward!

This is my favorite Williams Sonoma store. The staff is great and they have a large assortment of product! Highly recommended.

My first visit to Williams-​Sonoma ever was on a mission to find wedding gifts for dear friends. The customer service was spot-​on and I felt welcome to shop at my own pace without being bothered every other minute. I initially thought I might buy a tea or coffee maker but I soon found out that those items would destroy my budget.
I decided to look throughout the entire store to see if anything in particular would stand out. I found the book section and saw the perfect gift in the form of a new-​couples cookbook. The price wasn’t bad at $ 35 so I got that. I then got some food items to round out my gift box and the nice lady at the counter beautifully wrapped the gift box (complimentary!) and even tied a perfect bow.
I had high hopes when visiting this brand and I was not disappointed. I will add this to my mental list of places to visit for high quality gift-​giving.

They’re all the same. This is the same store as is at the plaza, etc. I really enjoy William Sonoma, but they’re all the same. Knives, Plates, Le Crueset, specialty gadgets you’ll never need, the store is full of interesting things to look at and at times purchase. Sometimes i look around here while my wife is in the Justice store.

Williams-​Sonoma, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I only stopped in to pick up a cupcake corer; the staff was incredibly helpful and got the item for me while I looked around. Within two minutes of walking in the door I had what I needed in hand. Of course that did not stop me from spending another twenty or so minutes browsing the store.
If you have never been, Williams-​Sonoma is a pretty high end kitchen store, they have all of the obscure items that you would spend days trying to find elsewhere (such as a cupcake corer, ice cream starter, and so on). If you fancy yourself a chef you’ll feel like a kid in a toy store.

Absolute worst customer experience I have ever had. Snooty staff that ignored my wife when we were the only customers in the store.
Treated us like second class citizens as soon as we walked in the door.
they may have cool cooking toys but go somewhere else if you want any form of customer service.

I look at Williams-​Sonoma at Town Center as a kindred spirit to Dean & Deluca across the street — with the latter selling gourmet food and the former selling the tools to make the gourmet food.
I have no five-​star, culinary kitchen — but walking through this place and I know I want one someday. I love the wall of cookbooks and coffee table books about food — and the staff doesn’t mind if you look through them, they encourage it. Yes, it is in the heart of Johnson County (its unofficial motto being, if you can’t afford it, get out), but it’s also a food museum to me, a place to walk around slowly, looking at its displays and reading the information posted about it on the side.
Their seasonal displays get me excited for holidays ahead, like Hallmark, they set out Christmas as early as October — but it fosters the excitement of the seasons well. Right now, W&S is selling a filled pancake pan, a pan with a few ice cream scoop-​sized holes in it, where you can pour the batter and fill it with (as they sell it) pecan pumpkin mousse and they turn out to be these perfect little dumpling-​sized pancakes. It’s useless but it sounds like the best way to spend your next Sunday in bed, does it not?
They also sell gourmet mixes that make eating really good things that much easier, for example: monkey bread (although not the most gourmet of their products, it’s a bestseller and ridiculously good.) They sell quirky things for Halloween coming up: Giant Halloween caramel apples and personalized trick or treat totes, jack-​o-​lantern aprons.
I won’t buy any of this, but its fun to imagine that one day I’ll have the money to live this frivolously.
I also appreciate how the entire checkout is modeled into a real kitchen counter in the center of the store — where they hold real cooking classes for a fee and other cooking demonstrations for free everyday. It’s like a cook’s heaven.