Gymboree

I’ll be honest… I don’t like babies; I don’t like kids. But, as I get older, I find myself having to go to these mini-​me stores more and more often because gifts that otherwise would have been perfect (who doesn’t like a good scotch or japanese whiskey or an awesome samurai sword!) now seem irresponsible.
Carter, Gymboree, Buy Buy Baby, Baby Gap, they’re all the same to me. Everything is priced like adult clothes ($ 15 for a t-​shirt or onesie, etc) but they always have some sort of sale, discount or quantity promotion to make the buyer feel a little better.
This Gymboree seems more open with a higher ceiling than the one at Westside Pavilion but just as packed with merchandise. They are mostly organized by color and loosely separated by gender, overall clean. Didn’t see anything on the floor or off hangers bunched up as if many someones had changed their minds.
The store was empty when I went in. Two ladies were working. I don’t shop very often but it seems like there is always some huge discount but the items I end up picking out are not the ones on sale. Not saying I have good taste, just good marketing/​strategic discounting.
A-​OK store. Some chick was returning 1 set of socks that she had bought 2 sets of. It was a buy 2 for $X versus buy 1 for greater-​than-​X-​divided-​by-​2 (you dizzy with my verbal algebra yet?). The clerk asked to see the receipt and socks before she would answer the customer’s question of whether she could exchange the unopened set for a bigger size. I think she ended up being able to do it. I was busy mesmorized at the TV monitor playing a dumb children’s song with bad animation.
Besides a ton of stuff in fall colors already, they also had Halloween costumes out hanging on the rods… they seem mostly for girls.
Anyway, totally A-​OK store with cute stuff and basics.