mark R.

For a corporate owned shop, it's actually nice to shop at the Ballard store. I never use self checkout so the cast is very friendly. The store is clean and organized and the guys in the deli and produce always like to help me if I cannot find what I am looking for. I shop there daily for lunch and the cashiers and I are getting to be on a first name basis. Always a friendly "Hi, how you doing today?" followed by a small to long conversation about everything and everything. I have even passed on to them some respices and cooking tips. Sadly it's seems to be a haven for thieves and homeless. It's like every time I am there someone at the front end is always catching someone trying to steal something. Yeah the prices are getting out of hand but thats everywhere you go these days.

The best Greek food I have ever had! We had a great time and the workers are fantastically friendly. The head chef/owner and his wife were constantly coming by to check with us and making sure our plates were filled. A tad pricy BUT the food and service made up for it all. We have gone back twice since and have never been disappointed.

So I shiopped over at the Fred Meyer in Ballard Seattle. OMG! What a sham! But then again all Fred Meyer''s are a sham. The prices are never correct when rung up, the work crew are uneducated ruin baboons, the store was filthy and the night crew still had pallets and boxes on the floor in the middle of the day. Talk about an accident waiting to happen. I stopped in to get a new electric razor. Its took someone over 45 minutes to get to the isle to open the locked case and then he stood tere annoys because I was trying to figure out which one was cordless/rechargeable. I asked him and he was certainly no help. I bought one that was on a peg for $45 but when its was rung up at register, its was $75. I said that was wrong. It took someone another 20 minutes to do the price check. They said it must have been on the wrong hook and still dared me to spend the $75. When I said no way, the cashier tried to make me feel like it was my fault and even called security to make sure I was not going to "blow a fit."

As I say, Never Again.

This website says it is to be a site to help witches and pagans but they cannot even spell "Magic" in their website name correctly.

The site is a total sham with a bunch of moderators tossing their weight about. The second you even remotely question something, they lock your account. And I do mean INSTANTLY. And you are never told why. And being locked out, you cannot even talk to anyone at the site. It's like facebook on coffee with some vendetta. I was still able to look about the site, just not do anything. All I saw was a bunch of spells that looks it came from Disney cartoons and vampire movies. I mean seriously: They have people posting spells like "How to turn yourself into a mermaid." "Grow vampire teeth" and "Grow a real live money tree you can harvest cash from daily." BUT they swear that there are real pagans and witches there as moderators. Yeah, a real witch or pagan would not go near that sham of a site.

All-in-all I was in the site 1 hour before I was locked. And that happen when I was asking someone if there were any REAL pagan and witch articles to be had here. "Big Brother was listening in apparently." And after that I surfed about maybe an hour more, just to find nothing but Disney spells and Pokemon rituals. It's all a total farce. Oh and within that first hour I was badgered by 3-4 people asking me to cast love spells for them. It was like I was the prey surrounded by bunch of starved tigers. I am not sure if they were the moderators, looking to test out who I was or just a bunch of seeding lurkers. One had a picture of a child on his profile. Creepy. In total I think that site is more of a breeding ground for pedofiles and porn geeks.

I have only been to this particular shop 3 times. The first time was when it was first open. Everthing was so clean, everything in its place and all and the management and crew were friendly. The last time I went the place was filthy beyond reason, the floors were sticky and nothing was in its place. I mean it literally looked like a hurricane of kids high on sugar ransacked the shop the day before Christmas. And the cast and management were anything but friendly.

I ordered a costume from this company/woman on-line due to covid in April of 2021. I sent her all my info, size, and details, along with a picture of what I wanted, with a check for $350. I never heard a single solitary thing from the person for months on end. I finally after 8 months of nothing, I found the company's address and took the 3 hour drive to see what was happening. I called her from the small town that was supposedly nearby and said that I was coming by to talk to her about the costume. She sent me told me to wear a mask and gave me the directions. As she was telling me what to look for, I started to get the feeling I was scammed when the woman was telling me "Take the dirt road." What I was expecting to be a shop of some sort, turned out to be a literal farm in the middle of nowhere. Luckily I talked to the woman at the store who said she knew this woman very well, a "Mrs. Joanne Kirley" by name. And she confirmed the address.

With mask and gloves on and paperwork in hand I showed her the initial computer transactions that we had sent to each other, along with a copy of the bank withdrawal of money for the costume I ordered. This... ehem... person swore that she took no such transaction from me. What a liar and con artist! And looking at her "Property" if you want to call it that, I am not surprised. So, I played her little game and asked her how much a costume would cost and how long. She now said 1 month and cost $500. Now I was rip roaring mad. I left her with a warning that if I do not have the costume as promised, I would be taking her to court. A month later no costume. So, I got a court summons. Shocked or maybe not a week later I got a package in the mail with a costume crammed into a box with a letter from Miss Kirley that simply said "Delivered as promised". Not even folded.

Yeah, delivered all wrinkled with sloppy seams and in places gaps. I swear a grammar school student could make something 1000 times nicer. I mean seriously, it looked like she put the whole thing together in minutes and the whole thing smelled like mildew. NO!

Warning: DO NOT get scammed by this farmer's wife costume designer-wannabe. She is out for your cash and nothing more. I am sure had I not set out to take her to court, I would never had heard from her.