Cost Plus World Market

Visiting Cost Plus before the holidays has been a long standing ritual for me.
I love this place for the variety of great stocking stuffers… not to mention stockings, cards, and ornaments.
Where else can you go to find a nice assortment of wines, coffee, tea, chocolates… while picking up great gag gifts?! On my latest visit, I bought Lavazza coffee, fine chocolates, and action figures. I don’t think that’s possible anywhere else.
The shopping experience is even nicer listening to music from around this world. On my latest visit, I heard familiar holiday songs is many languages.
As a tip: They open at 9am. Street parking is free on weekends til 10am. So, if you get there early enough you won’t have to hassle with the meters.

I love this store there’s always something new. Their wine and beer selection are awesome and they have great prices. I love their kitchen selections they have all kinds of cooking gadgets. I have purchase furniture and the quality is great.

i love shopping in this store… used to frequent this store when i lived in mtn view (and could walk there in less than 5 minutes), and loved perusing their merchandise. i no longer live walking distance, but the location in rwc is pretty close, and a short drive, so i stop by here whenever i’m in the downtown area.
they have free coffee samples near the main entrance, which is a great little pick me up! i love that they feature specialty flavours like coconut and red velvet cake!
seasonal items are usually in the front, i.e. easter bunny and egg merchandise in march/​april, halloween and fall items in september/​october.
but my favourite section, the international foods section, is always at the rear of the store. here, i find italian-​style pasta, english biscuits, german chocolate, thai curry, and more. they really do have enough items here for you to cook up a different gourmet meal every night of the week!
i also quite like the baked goods section, as i’ve purchased gourmet red velvet cake mix in the past, which has resulted in cupcakes that are better than your average duncan hines or betty crocker box mix.
if you’ve brought your husband or wife or kids and they get tired, have them sit on one of the chairs or couches in their furniture section!

I would like to express my sincere thank you to Phil for his diligent and persistent work in getting a part that was missing for my furniture. These days, it is very difficult to find great customer service, but I must say that Phil deserves to be recognized by his company for such awesome care he has for his customers. He is a real asset to World Market.

Personally, I’ve never bought anything here, but it was fun just to look around. The selection of unique furnishings, teas, coffees, cocoa mixes, and Italian sodas is intriguing.

This place is dangerous on my wallet… luckily I have some restraint or my wife would kill me. I feel like our house can look so cute if it can be decorated in Cost Plus furnishings and décor. Anyway, I rarely leave this store without at least one purchase, regardless of its some Beignets mix or a random kitchen item I swear I’m going to use. The employees are super nice and usually greet you upon entering when they spot you walking in.
The prices of their wine is super good and be on the look out for when they have sales on top of an additional 10% off!

Customer service here is always great, even for a retail chain. The staff is very friendly and are not robots at the cashier, they will engage in some light conversation. The furniture and housewares cater to a rustic taste. I always manage to find a couple of foreign snacks in the back that never disappoint.

Great customer service! I called ahead to check on a specific item. I was helped promptly and courteously. A special thanks to Alex for being so helpful and the rest of the staff too!

I’ve shopped at Cost Plus since the 70’s. It has always been fun to roam around and check out the interesting items throughout the store. Cost Plus has been my go to store for funky gifts and treats. Recently, my husband and I had an experience that was a total turnoff. We walked in and picked up some cookies along with a few bottles of beer. Since we are well into our 50’s we were surprised to be carded. Unfortunately, we were walking around Redwood City and didn’t have our driver’s licenses on us. Stupid us. What annoyed us was the robot like manager who said she cannot sell alcohol without ID no matter what age the person is. If you are obviously over 21 too bad. Perhaps this is corporate policy. Nevermind that we’ve purchased beer in this very store without being carded a few weeks ago.
California law simply states you cannot sell alcohol to anyone younger than 21. So most companies card people who are younger than 35. Cost Plus should rethink this policy and tell their employees to use common sense. We don’t look young in fact it is obvious that we are middle aged people. This manager is the type who would pat down babies and nuns if she was a TSA airport screener.

Its weird because I’ve come here in the past and it was kind of whatever and I just bought a head band… but for some reason when I came this time it was like the cutest home décor store I’ve ever been in. Some thing seemed way more different and trendy and I wanted to buy everything!

Fun place to shop for home décor items. I just got a little end table that i will use as a small night stand next to the bed. It is really pretty and a great price.

Even though the store is smaller and cramped than other World Markets, the customer service here is awesome. On several occasions I’ve called to see if they had items in stock that I saw online. Each time, the worker was friendly and helpful. Same thing when I went to pick up the items. For some reason, they have more of the items I want in stock than other WM’s like Mountain View or San Mateo.
Join the Explorers club to get info on sales and coupons. I just got some patio furniture cushions for 50% off plus I used my 15% email coupon. Score!
If you can’t find parking on the street, park in the garage on the same block. First hour and a half is free.

It’s like a Pier 1 and a Sanrio store fell deeply in love and started a family. Home goods from all across the world meet a wide variety of international snacky things. Lots of mid-​quality seasonal items, including a huge assortment of winter holiday ornaments. I find their prices to be very high on furniture. If you’re looking for a host/​ess gift or to make a care package, this is a one-​stop shop, though. Not very convenient to reach, since there is construction nearby, but if you can’t park on the street, try parking in the underground structure (accessible on Middlefield), at the public library (metered) or in the lot across the street (more expensive).
They have a discount card of sorts, and it is a multi-​step signup — regardless of whether you have a card or not, the cashier will bother you about it every single time you shop. It’s almost impossible to head this conversation off at the pass.

I think this place here so you have something to do while waiting for your movie to start. We are usually early for our movie so we always come by Cost Plus to see what’s new and get some candy to sneak into the theater. They have such a cool collection of old school candy and drinks. We also like to drool over the furniture that would never fit in with the rest of the stuff we have in our house.
The staff that we’ve run into all seemed very nice and happy to be there. I don’t know why, but it seems like this location is more mellow than the one at Hillsdale Mall.

***This is a decent store to find interesting food and stuff; it is very similar in size and selection to the Cost Plus World Market in El Segundo***
Metered street parking is available. There is also a parking structure nearby.

Yep Cost Plus World Market is always fun to go to. It’s a great place to find gifts for anyone for any occasion. They sells things for kids, men, women, pets, etc. They sell food, wine, kitchen ware, furniture, giftwrap, and knick knacks like alpaca toys and honey soaps.
Some interesting finds here:
1. beer in Buddha bottles
2. desktop table tennis set
3. bacon flavored popcorn
I always end up spending more time than I intend in here because there’s just a ton to look at.

I came here looking for folding chairs at the end of the summer, but they were out. I did find a nice bottle of bordeaux for $ 5 however, so I can’t complain. It’s a standard World Market, with the standard selection of stuff, but without much parking. If you’re looking for a specific sale Item I would definitely call ahead and ask them if they have it.
So minus a star for parking, plus a star because I GOT CARDED!!! (I was 33.75 years old at the time.)

I love how this location in merchandised. Also they seem to always have things in stock. Especially in comparison to the location on Stevens Creek where I live.
The bad? Paid parking… but it is cheap. 50 cents for an hour. And the checkout lanes are not well situated.
Love how this store makes you feel good by how they display the stuff. It feels more like an experience of «world» market.

Cost Plus i haven’t been to in a decade at least. the aisles are configured totally different now.
not straight but in zig zag islands of merchandise.
makes the store more intimiate and cute in a way.
there’s a buyers reward card now and a discount for wines bought in 4’s.
as usual saw lots of interestingand unusal items/​foods…
i wanted to rate my experience a 4. 3 since i only bought a few chocolate bars and checkout while polite and courteous, was slow.

Came here to do some browsing with some girlfriends on Saturday. Wasn’t really looking for anything in particular.
They had a sample stand setup in the middle of the store and the nice lady lured me in with her chocolate/​strawberry swirl spread. Le yum! She had a sweet potato and yam soup at her stand that intrigued me.
The cashier was nice. Asked me if I wanted to join their email club. I politely declined. I almost never shop at Cost Plus, which is strange considering what a magnificent assortment of good stuff they have.
Perhaps I will begin to frequent the one closer to my house…