Fleet Plummer

I love the selection of jewelry, women’s clothing, and holiday décor. I don’t love the service. Small, local businesses are desirable because of their service, right? Here they act like they’re doing you a favor to help you. Not a smile in the place. There are too many options in this world. If I want impersonal I will, and do, shop online.

Neighborhood gem
Love the seasonal selection of merchandise especially the women’s department
Staff friendly
The only negative is the cigarette smelling the back of the store

I’m not sure I understand this store (grills… and jewelry??), but I wandered in this afternoon after lunch (a restaurant next door) and was instantly transported into a magical place of gold, glitter and sparklies. I bought a hand blown glass hummingbird for absolutely no reason at all other than I was mesmerized by it, and a couple of tapered candles to replace the ones my cats keep destroying. I was with a coworker and we were running out of time to get back to work, so we only covered one-​third of the store… we purposefully left the remaining two-​thirds to explore another day. Clothes, candles, jewelry, cards, Christmas decorations, patio furniture, wall hangings… I may stroke out.

Fleet Plummer is an outstanding gift store that has a wide variety of gift items. Jewelry, home décor, NC-​themed gifts, Greensboro-​themed gifts. Collegiate gifts from the Big 4 (UNC, NCSU, WFU & Duke), Appalachian & ECU. Tervis tumblers, indoor & outdoor decorations, flags, chimes & a large variety of cards for all occasions. They also have a wide selection of bird items (feeders, houses, food). Big selection of patio furniture. They also have Big Green Egg grills, too. Salespeople are always available, polite & ready to help you. They also know their stuff.

I love this store. I use it for gifts and the occasional splurge for myself and have never been disappointed. The staff is friendly and helpful. Definitely a favorite for me.

I came on here to grab the address for Fleet Plummer and am a little startled at the reviews – the filtered one (that doesn’t count) is 5*, the one that remains a 1* with … well, not a lot of detail. Both first reviews. Hmm.
So with that, I will start with this much: I don’t honestly care about the jewelry type stuff… but I get why it’s there. There is a very large subset of the population that, while they are perfectly cozy with their family member’s obsession with say grilling, couldn’t care less apart from desperately needing to guard the mortgage against any unexpected liens for the purpose of, oh… a massive expensive and can we get a custom granite inlay on that? Weber grill… Now see, I love me some gorgeous grilling stuff but actually dislike the grilling part – I’ll take a Viking megarange instead, kthx, or well Fire Magic, mmm yeah even I can go for a thousand degrees of holycrapthazhotstuff (they’re the spinal tap 11)…
In any case, this store has been here for an eternity and has gone from looking like a plain jane hardware store to looking like a confused teenager of a mixed blend to being run down for a while in the 80s to hitting a certain stride with the wealthy in particular. I say wealthy because it’s EXPENSIVE WHOA. Then again, did anyone expect to be buying Weber and Fire Magic grills for the cost of a Wally World purchase? Perk here is they actually have people install who know what they’re doing. You could get me to maybe buy something at Lowe’s (last I went I couldn’t find any USA-​made anything amongst the tools I needed, which were several in number and type!) but you could NOT get me to hire them to install whatever I might get. At least in NC, anywhere that my parents grew up knowing has more at stake than a mass chain that can ignore failures because of sheer bulk.
When I was growing up, it wasn’t quite at this state of «serious buyer and otherwise bored browser» marital bliss, but they know about their grills and that’s really what to me matters for this store (I’ll admit, a LOT of the «boutique» things look like the very things I’d gulp at if gifted and later laugh my tush off when seeing a similarly horrified face at a white elephant party!) Female as I may be, you won’t find me adorned in antique silver. You CERTAINLY won’t find me decorating my house in roosters and cherubs. Yes, yes, yes, it does have some good-fortune-doesn’t-equal-good-taste elements, but so what. Since I’ll be splattered in sauce or drooling over homemade ice cream long before I’ll be caught oogling over porcelain oddities (some novelties-​made-​to-​be-​novelties are cool though) that will go behind the glass prison walls of funny-​named ornate encased shelves, well, hello, ma’am, I’ll be over there with the dudes salivating over making thousand degree fire, ok? First, I’ll crave a Fire Magic, then I’ll think I came down to earth in seriously contemplating a Dimplex electric (I hate smelling like burning coals/​wood anywhere but camp, and home is not camp! Don’t sit on that cloth seat in those stinky pants!) only to see its price tag and slowwwly back away then be glad that in Greensboro, there ARE plenty of people to point to this store and similar ones and to let THEM make the fire and ME savor the noms. I’m alright without both the body funk AND the car-​priced cooking toy. Still, I can drool – they have some great slate tables and such to help me envision a custom install – like an outdoor bar, 20′ in semi-​circumference, with that slate, trio of tables along a winding river rock walkway. Dream a little dreeeeam. That’s why this store still exists. Cause we dream, and sometimes, when we dream big, bingo… this is where we go. Cause hey, would you rather keep these folks in business or keep some stock owners for Home Repo enjoying your frustrating customer service experience? At least if I have a q here, there’s a real live manager!