This long overdue review is for BOTH, Inspired the Boutique AND Second Impressions. I received a text message from them today, which reminded me that I needed to share my experience. TLDR version: Overpriced, false advertisement, shady business practices, WILL NOT GO BACK to Inspired the Boutique or Second Impressions!!! Longer version: Back on May 5th, I went to an event that I was led to believe was happening at Second Impressions thrift store (See pic of text from them). When I got to the store it was closed, which was super disappointing/frustrating, because I had parked far away and I'm partially disabled. As I was leaving, I drove past another store that had a tent set up outside and thought maybe they had set up there because Second Impressions is tucked back in the corner without a place to do a tent. I rolled my window down and asked the guy in the tent if this was for the Second Impressions event, and he said yes. So I drove around for a while until I could snag another parking spot (again far away, because El Ranchito was having a Cinco de Mayo event) and made my way over to that other tent location. Turns out, this was for another store called Inspired the Boutique. When I go in the store, I was bummed to find it was just clothes. No books, games, toys, random trinkets or home decor, which is what I've purchased in the past from Second Impressions and expected to buy this time as well. But since I was there, figured I'd check out the men's clothing. Yikes, ridiculously overpriced for what you'd expect from a thrift store! I'm talking well over Goodwill or Salvation Army. But per their text they were doing a ring toss to win "up to 30% off on your highest priced item!" so I went to give that a try, in an effort to make a shirt I found be a more reasonable price. But to add insult to injury, after everything else, you could only win up to 20% off (see 2nd pic of ring toss). WOW, false advertising much? I went back inside and asked the lady at the register about it, and also about why I had received an invite to an event for Second Impressions that was actually for another store with a completely different inventory, and she said that the text I received came from their Boutique store that is owned by the same people. I showed her the text that only said Second Impressions and she said she'd have to check into that. I told her that's kinda shady that I gave my info to one store, and then get texts from a completely different store. And then what about the 20% ring toss game instead of the 30%? Her response was "too many people had won the 30% so we removed it." WTF?!?! I stood there speechless and then just walked out. I did mention to the guy in the tent on my way out that I would be sharing my experience on yelp, and now I've made good on that promise. Obviously I won't be returning to either of their stores! read more