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They sell Christmas stuff.
That’s it.
Unique things true, but that’s all they do. It’s a good shop for that purpose.

A horrible place to work but a wonderful place to shop. The manager Scott Best was very sexual towards me because he was gay. He made very strange and rude comments during my shifts. He was very unproffesional when shouting at me if I’d done something wrong. By the end, right after he fired me, he changed rules that weren’t in like I’ve had cuffs in my pants for an entire year and my last weeks working there he told me to take them out. I hope no one works for him. As he is very rude and emotional and not in the slightest professional. I’d go back to buy things if I never worked there but since I did he will give me a very sexual glance that I won’t appreciate. Even other co-​workers have said I was only there for eye candy.
I waisted my life there when I could’ve done better. But no I have! :)

Wonderful shop with wide range of unique ornaments for the special people in your life. I have found gifts for my kids, godchildren, teachers and professionals over the years. When visiting Crown Center, this is a must stop shop!

this store has about a million (I counted, I was in here for hours) holiday-​themed items. not just christmas, oh no. this is the place to get your halloween ornaments for your halloween tree (wha? does that sound ridiculous to anyone else who is not part of hallmark?) and cocktail napkins and costumes for your little girl’s birthday party.
advice: shopping here should involve 2 separate trips. go first as reconnaissance — DO NOT BUY. leave. come back when fresh, preferably on a separate day, or at least a separate minute, and then purchase to your heart’s content.

It’s the post-​Halloween season and from now until December 26^th stores like win the attention of many. People need fake trees, ornaments, children-​sized Santa dolls, holly and mistletoe and people get it everywhere, but no one does it better than this place. It is its lot in life and while places like Hallmark sell Christmas in all forms too, it does not sell it 365 days a year — that’s where Holiday Magic comes in.
I had to wait to speak to the manager for 30 minutes Unilocalers, 30 MINUTES. He was that busy — the lines were winding around the store, almost out the door. I had to wait my turn because people buying for Christmas can get a little crazy, you know — they were staring at me all wide eyed thinking I was trying to cut in. No — I just wanted to ask the manager how he managed to stay open for the entire year.
But I got my answer without having to ask him anything. This store has insane foot traffic — AND according to the man, it was a slow day! It’s at the heart of Crown Center and one of the first shops people go into when they visit because it’s located at the top of the escalator between the first and second floors. There has been a Christmas-​themed store open at this exact location for about 20 years — so if anyone wants to run a business that is seemingly untimely 10 months out of the year — these are the people to talk to.
Once it was my turn to talk with the most popular man in Crown Center — he told me that ornaments were statistically (and I don’t know where he got this information) purchased randomly more than any other item. He was saying, in other words, that people with no intent to buy anything would end up forking over cash for an ornament over anything else! That’s crazy! But people are crazy and it works — the crowds made it look like Christmas was tomorrow.
The owner’s are not against selling a few other things not under the specification of holiday merchandise. In the very front, there was a tree decorated with Halloween ornaments and Halloween napkins were on a side table next to rows and rows of other Halloween decorations (I went to the store on Halloween) and people were emptying this part of the store for last minute things.
In one of their many windows, they fashioned an entire Irish Christmas display to pull people inside based on the common heredity in Kansas City (a very smart move). I’ve already made a promise to return to buy a few Irish ornaments I feel my collection is lacking. It’s very smart of them to headline this.
While talking to the owner, he revealed to me that the new Christmas store in Town Center Plaza (3 French Hens) was opened by the same person who used to manage Holiday Magic — and having been to both, I can clearly see that this store is the better of the two. It has four times the merchandise and it has more options than just trees and ornaments. It’s just as pricey as 3 French Hens — but better worth your time and more suiting to a variety of holiday needs for people (remember: 3 French Hens is for a merry Johnson County Christmas while Holiday magic is for a merry Kansas City Christmas).