Knuckleheads Tobacco and Vapes

I’ve been going to knuckleheads for years. It fits well with the vibe of the uwm section of the eastside. The people are always willing to help.
They offer lots of items from hookah products, cigars, vapes, tshirts and incents to name a few. The only issue I have is the prices are not as competitive as some other stores around the city even other businesses on the same block.

Always found the staff here extremely helpful. They’re more than happy to have a chat and open as many shisha boxes as we like to get a new flavour. Great shop.

Knuckleheads is a joke head shop. Probably the worst customer service I have ever received from not just a head shop but a establishment. The employees are rude af and have no idea how to interact with individuals. I’d rather suck on a urinal cake then walk into this hovel.

This location fails in comparison to the Madison location.
My partner enjoys Velvet Cloud (organic, sustainable, non-​chemical brand) for his nicotine vaporizer and while the Madison location offers dozens of flavors this Knuckleheads has none.
We have bought many blunt wraps that we go home and find out they are dried out. (Which means we can’t use them, because they crack.)
Sure, they carry manic panic (which is hard to find in certain colors outside of this shop) but they sit so long I’d be careful purchasing them to use them.
Also, maybe it wouldn’t help for the employees to seem so annoyed when someone walks in.

Before walking in you will notice how the door requires a push button, while intermittently covered with random paper. Upon entering you’ll observe a close quartered shop filled with clutter. This leads to you going into a very hawk like mode, almost a I spy for what you may like. There is a sort of relaxed vibe to this experience that is welcoming, though there may come some headache thru examination. For a small shop it has everything it can jam in it and as well a very friendly people working there. Yet, after a walk through you will begin to notice the prices are too expensive for what you need. I would recommend online unless you enjoy paying for a experience. Overall this place is terribly small, and the prices do not correlate.

I don’t use this place for anything other than to buy tobacco for rolling my smokes. It does fulfill that role reasonably well, despite some distributor issues with keeping my brand in stock. I can’t speak to how well they will be able to help you spend your college loan on that sweet 4-​footer mom & dad always wanted you to have.
Prices on my tobacco and filters are better than anywhere else in the area (that’s not many places) But prices on the «Herbal Incense» you used to buy here are practically non-​existent! Wait, I mean, TRULY NON-​EXISTENT! Why? Because of that freshman from Waukeegan down the hall from you. Remember Pete? He was acting weird for a few days and then RA’s found him naked, crying in the laundry room? Covered in a large amount of somebody else’s feces? He’s not coming back next semester, and neither is Herbal Incense. If you miss Pete, you can probably have his stuff. His sketchy roommate (Steve, the guy that gave Pete the Herbal Incense) is selling it on the cheap, yo! Git that OAR cd!
Anyway, Knuckleheads is cool. Reminds me of going to their store in Madison and being on drugs. When I was 22. Good selection of import tobaccos, rolling papers up the wazoo (that’s a euphemism for «butthole», kids), and seemingly ever-​evolving staff. I think the turnover rate there must be about that of the goddamn Brewers bullpen. There was a cute girl there (maybe still is?) who was always nice and seemed a little more «connected» in executing her duties than most of the rest of the staff. And I don’t mean you should try to buy drugs from her. I mean she made eye contact, spoke clearly, and didn’t have that «I need another Monster energy drink or I’m fittin’ ta crash. Did you see that new Rob Dyrdek show? What?» look. They’re all friendly, though. Just a bit too colloquial, and by colloquial, I mean with a demeanor exactly what the locale and context would make you expect.
Don’t buy a sundress, little girl. That’s the true gateway drug.

Expensive with a limited variety.

I don’t find this place to be nearly as horrible as Jake makes it out to be. Although I admittedly don’t know a lot about head shop pricing, or how it compares to porn shop pricing, I did find decent pricing on pretty much everything else including a small selection of hippy/​punk clothes and Manic Panic, and I did find the staff to be reasonably helpful, maybe they weren’t as stoned this time.