World Market

This store is amazing. I have never been impressed by customer service as I have in this store. First of all, let me start off by how affordable everything is here. I basically furnished my entire living and dining room with gorgeous, high quality furniture, from this store for 1700. I had a bit of a disaster with the other world market in evanston, where I ordered my furniture but was not made aware of the 25% off sale. When I came here to pick up a missing piece from this location, the staff right away made me aware of the sale, and not only that worked with me to get the error of the other store fixed. They were genuinely concerned about me getting the best deal and about fixing the mistakes of the other store, and offered to even speak to the manager of the other store about what happened (but I was so satisfied with their amazing customer service, I completely forgot about the other store’s mishap when I was done). The manager checking me out was so patient and careful, and double checked everything on my large order to make sure she got it right. The delivery guys were even amazing and even unpacked everything for me even though they didn’t have to technically.
I highly suggest the furniture here btw. I was at Arhaus before I went here, and I saw those exact same dining chairs they had at worldmarket for triple the price. I couldn’t believe I bought a gorgeous couch for less than 400 dollars and found purple velvet pillows for less than 10 which I could not find anywhere else.

Sadly I don’t have good things to say about this World Market. Today I called looking for a table that was pretty much sold out. I was hopeful that this was the store that may have had one left but alas I’ll never know! I called constantly for about 15 mins and never got through; the phone just rang and rang. I gave up and tried 2 other World Markets (where they snatched up the phone immediately & I got great service). I hung up with those two and called back and surprisingly someone answered… and immediately placed me on hold and kept me there for 10 mins. I got discouraged hung up and called yet again and was met with the constant ringing. I am hoping my experience is just a fluke and not indicative of their regular phone customer service. Because of my experience today I will never shop at this World Market but I still love all the other World Markets!

I love this store. I always find something to lust after and debate about if I really need while I go up and down the aisles till reaching check-​out. Most of the time I can’t resist, and end up indulging.
Most of the time I find something that will make my husband laugh and giggle like a little kid. Our home is decorated with items like lego models and animal figurines, to give you an idea. So when I find items like maple bacon beer and comedic coffee cups, I snap’em up.
This store is always clean too. Good place to go.

I got the pig! The annual marzipan pig last night!
Just like every year, I love coming here for all the last minute goodies. Stocking stuffers for everyone. Tons of candy, scarves, hats, mittens, soaps, candles, cooking gear, fun toys (who doesn’t love squirt rings), and our annual ornament snatch up — 2 for $ 5!
Today on Christmas Eve they are slashing prices on all the holiday stuff. Sadly only some of it was on sale last night, so we didn’t hit all the bargains.
Wine, coffee, tea, and bath goodies. What more could you want?
Don’t forget to stop here for all the last minute stuff — you won’t be disappointed.
Oh, and for the pig? It didn’t even make it home. I gobbled that soft, sweet pink almond paste delight up right in the car.
Happy Holidays everyone!

Welcome to World Market!
When I got to this store, I just wanted to laugh.
Basically you can envision the store to be a combination of TJ Maxxx, Marshalls, Binny Beverage Depot, Brookstone and Crate&Barrell. All rolled into one!!!
You will find humorous novelties around this store and I didnt expect something like this phenomenon in the northshore area of Northbrook-​Highland Park, il. Lol.
You will discover a gourmet section of coffee, tea, and spices from around the world.
Another section you can peruse the section of different bottles of wine from around the world.
And of course, try sitting down on a new ottoman chair or walk on an asian rug.
If you want to get drunk, check your I.Q., play basketball coordination brain skills and fly a kite at the same time, this store will have your options.
You will find a kite and an IQ testing kit.
As you move to the cashier counter, grab a small mini bottle of vodka, Jim Beam, Redeye, whatever…
I find those mini whiskey bottles funny.
If I was a kid growing up in the area and mom/​dad took me shopping, I would try them with my buddies along with the basketball game. Kooolllll!!!

I visited this location on a Monday afternoon; store was very messy (piles of merchandise left lying around when it should have been neatly put back on the shelves, baskets all over the place in the basket/​gourmet foods area, rug area was a disaster as well, in addition to the bath department). Customer service wasn’t great here-​not like it is in Mt. Prospect; really no comparison. I wasn’t greeted by anyone or thanked for stopping in. There was only one cashier on duty and the store seemed very understaffed given how much merch is crammed into this store. I won’t be back to this location given the snobiness of the other clientele and lackluster customer service. I noticed a lot of men working here-​they really need to work in their attention to detail and organizational skills.

I absolutely LOVE this store ! All their merchandise is unique and inexpensive. The employees are very helpful and always willing to answer questions. They have many European products that are very unique and delicious they also carry super FUN candy that I haven’t seen anywhere else .
They also carry seasonal items that are very different than anything I have seen elsewhere.

Nothing new that I love this place… but I love it even more after my most recent visit. We stopped in just for fun and I found a hat that I really liked. It was marked down to $ 9.98…much to my surprise, the cashier asked for $ 5.43…WHAT?! I had one of those moments… don’t react or she will realize she made a mistake… but HOLY COW, did I really just score this adorable hat for my vacation to Cabo for only $ 5.43!!! I walked out composed with my bargain buy and did a celebratory dance in the parking lot!

The people that work at this store are so incompetent and rude. That includes the manager Keith. I cannot even step food in this filthy store anymore…

The staff in this store are NOT friendly. I was there over the weekend and needed help. The woman that I asked for help from, didn’t seem to know much, went to ask and then proceeded to go talk to another staff person. When I walked up on her she said they didn’t have what I wanted. No further explanation. Then when I had to ask for her to call another store, she took my flyer to explain exactly what I wanted. She was gone for over 15 minutes. I had to go find her! When I said «I am still waiting for an answer» she said, I had a customer issue to deal with. I told her I was a customer too and she just blew it off. Then when I asked for my flyer back, for the $ 10 off coupon, she could not find it! She looked for a minute and then gave up just saying if I come back she will accommodate the coupon. It ends up she is a manager! OMG she is not a good manager, not organized, not people friendly, etc. I was soooo irritated and upset with the lack of support! And then the cashier could not have been any more unfriendly either. UGH
Then I go back last night to return what I bought and get the item I wanted and I had to explain the coupon thing and the other manager was trying to talk down to me about not taking a coupon and I had to explain 4 times what I meant.
The cashier that was helping me yesterday was nice to me, but the customer ahead and behind me she was just kind of cold to.
World Market needs to do a much better job at management training and customer service training.

If I could, I would live here. They have so much random goodies! I love their variety of foods, alcohol, kitchenware, and home décor that comes from all over the world. I always get sucked into the international foods section and finding new snacks almost every time.
Foods that love/​kill me:
TIM TAMS– they’re actually called Arnott’s here, but it’s basically the same Australian cookie that every must try. it’s sooo good, but sooo bad at the same time. chocolate covered chocolate biscuits with the chewy caramel center. how could you resist?
Hawaiian Popcorn and Kettle Chips– they make it their own way there on the island, i swear. it’s addicting. the wasabi and sweet onion flavored chips are awesome.
Snap Pea Snack– i forgot the name of the brand, but at first you bite into and it’s not something you crave for, but then you just can’t stop eating it for some reason. I don’t know why. They’re just baked snap peas after all.
I always come across things that sound delicious and I know I’ll keep coming back to experiment with them. Red Velvet Pancake mix is calling my name!

This Store is simply he best for kitchen wear and such.

My first time at this particular World Market. Don’t even ask what I was doing all the way up in Northbrook. I like this chain in general, but last night’s visit really aggravated me.
I had a very limited shopping agenda on this trip, but I happened to walk by the beer, and noticed the «make your own six-​pack» with a wide variety of imports and American microbrews. I made an impulse purchase and carted my goods to the register.
Thus my nightmare began. Extremely looooong story short – there was a series of mishaps which led to me standing there for fifteen minutes. First, they apparently have to ring each bottle separately; second, they could not get one of the bottles to scan; thirdly, she did not know how to handle my coupon (twice); fourthly, she made some kind of mistake and had to call the manager to the front to void the entire transaction and START OVER. Then the clerk got confused about the order of things and there was some delay while the manager straightened her out. Then at the end of the second go-​around, for some reason they both had to print the receipt and cross-​check it against everything on the counter. Wha? Jesus H. Christ. Fifteen minutes to check out twelve beers and four small food items.
I understand that mistakes can happen, but this was the perfect storm of checkout disasters. And they never apologized until the very end; actually, they didn’t apologize at all – the manager never spoke to me or even looked me in the face, and all the lady said was «Thank you for your patience.» Well, I didn’t have much choice, did I, Incompetron? In a way I feel more sorry for the poor people behind me in line. Those beers had better taste pretty goddamn good.

I want to marry World Market and have its babies. Together we will live in a beautiful home full of Japanese paintings, Indian brass elephants, Cancun tiki bar sets, and eat pocky snacks and Hungarian boxed truffles. Our children will play with German monkey toys. We will drink Kenyan coffee, sip Italian wine and blood orange soda and down it with all sorts of assorted Russian vodkas.
Someone please get me the hell out of this store. I was in there three times and that was just yesterday. I even went to their Oak Brook location for lunch too.

I have been a World Customer for years, but their return policy has set me off! I returned a pair of defective earrings, sans receipt… no credit… no money… no nothing! Beware of buying things which are excepted from their refund policy… and there are many. Although most of the jewelry at World Market is priced very fairly, the earrings I purchased at $ 19.99 were enough of a dollar amount to withstand more than a single wearing!

I went here because I was next door at the Trader Joes and saw «World Market» thinking it was a grocery store with specialty items. It had a small component of that, but this is really a very general store. It has a lot of furniture and then arts & craft type of stuff.
This might be the only place you can walk out with a Japanese style bookshelf, European candy, and coffee from Kenya.

I love this store, there are always so many interesting items and everything is always on the inexpensive side. I went in here to get a Christmas present for my neighbor and I had so my choices (I was looking for white serving dishes) that it was difficult to narrow it down to my final choice.
Also, there’s always so many ethnic items that I could go in here and spend a good 3 hours in here without getting bored. They really have amazing items, whenever I need something for a person who’s a kitchen guru I head here cause I know I’m bound to find it within these four walls.