Wild West of America

This is a shop I will NEVER recommend to anyone! My husband, brother, his wife and I were there just 2 days ago, on Saturday, 12.13.14. and I noticed upon walking in that there was an asian looking man sitting in a chair near the front and I actually smiled at him as my husband and I walked by. Then my brother and I stopped to look at some personalized pocket knives and he picked one up to purchase for a sibling. We walked further to the back of the store to look at hooded sweatshirts and my brother placed the pocket knife down to browse. As I stood there, the asian man brushed past me to stand between me and my brother and said something I did not understand. I asked «What?» He refused to look at me and repeated himself, staring at my brother’s back. I asked again, «What?» He still refused to look at me and repeated himself again, still staring at my brother’s back, who at this time turned around. My brother understood him as saying, «Where is pocket knife!» and we were completely speechless. He was accusing my brother of stealing an $ 8 pocket knife! My brother walked the few feet back to where he had set the pocket knife down and the man snatched it and walked away. I GUESS PEOPLE ARENT ALLOWED TO PICK UP SOMETHING TO PURCHASE AND THEN WORK THEIR WAY BACK TO THE REGISTER TO PURCHASE IT WITHOUT BEING CONSIDERED THIEVES…(Sarcasm)…I am still steaming over this! They lost several hundred dollars from us that day as we were planning on purchasing several $ 40 hoodies for friends and some decent looking Christmas ornaments. But after THAT, we put everything down and walked out. I tried to make eye contact with the asian man who was back in his seat near the front and ask him why he had done that, but he looked down at the floor and would not look up until we were out on the sidewalk, at which time I saw him rush towards the register where a couple asian ladies were standing. We all just stared at each other thinking, «Did this really just happen to us?!»

This souvenir shop could use some sprucing up. There wasn’t a thing in there that I wanted to buy for myself of for someone else.

I really ought to give this place two stars…
But I went in there with the sole purpose of buying a souvenir refrigerator magnet, And they had one I liked. And the price was reasonable.
So even though the customer service was nonexistent. Even though the employees act like everyone is a terrorist. Even though it is chockfull of the most inane souvenir stuff you’ve ever seen… well I guess I have to give it three.
Grudgingly.

Boy this place is terrible. Lonely Planet prescribes it, but I’m sure that was based on some alternative universe back in 1800 B.C.
I say, unless you’re in the market for plain Colorado-​badged souvenir crap, you’ll find absolutely nothing else. Okay, maybe a dreamcatcher or two, but that’s it.
Don’t be fooled by the $ 145 ‘native’ hunting knife on the storefront window. It will surely set expectations one cannot truly ever recover from.

I wouldn’t normally set foot in a souvenir store in the city in which I live, but the in-​laws were in town and were in the market for something kitschy that they could buy for relatives back home.
This is definitely your one-​stop shop for standard souvenir crap. In fact, you’ll find a wide assortment of Made in China items with the word «Denver» or «Colorado» slapped on them.
About half-​way through the store (Yes, we didn’t even make it all the way to the back), my husband said a few choice words in Mandarin to my Chinese mother-​in-​law. She nods politely, does a 180, and we follow her out of the store.
Once outside, I asked them, «What did you say in Chinese?»
I’m happy to report that I now know how to say the word «garbage» in Mandarin.

Big, spacious, and full of crap that no one who live in Colorado would ever want.
I guess they are trying to push the out-​of-​towner 60+ market.
Well…they have a lot of cheap shirts, no doubt about that… but with lots of annoying slogans and the like
Apparently Market street is a haven for souvenir type shops… which is sort of strange…
In any case, there is nothing special about this one except that it is a big-boy…oh and careful with your coffee pleazees

«Excuse me. Please be careful with your coffee?» Is this anyway to welcome a guest?
Maybe these folks have just had trouble in the past with those sketchy coffee drinking types BUT now I feel on edge (for reasons besides the coffee). What if I do spill the coffee? What will happen to me? The Wild West Warehouse of America is… spacious and… mildly interesting (at the most) to sarcastic. My favorite thing is a container of Colorado gems in tones of all colors, sweatshirts blah blah blah and then out of nowhere it may catch you off guard as it did me, a heap of Thai apparel. I thought this was a Colorado souvenir shop?
Be careful with your coffee.