Uncle Ike's Pot Shop Central District

Melissa Bravo

The staff here are all so friendly and helpful! Yaz was especially patient with me as a beginner. She took the time to recommend good products and explain to me almost everything. I had a great experience and will definitely be back!!!

Mira Farrow

There are several very helpul staff people here and it is very accepting of alternative indentities. Lou recently was very helpful and spent some very appreciated time helping me identify specific strains that are best suited to my medical and lifestyle needs. As someone with more than a passing education on such matters I appreciated the tone, the words they used, their clear understanding of what I was asking about without complicating it with too many if/or choices and/or industry jargon. Felt like I was speaking to one of my favorite grad school professors about some vexing issue. As noted, there are three other staff members there who are also very good at doing this. Lou just really made my day. Only complaint is that as a pedestrian I always fear and dread navigating that very car-centric parking lot. Since they blocked access through the liquor store deck it is manifestly even more dangerous. Too many people pull in and out of it without thought to people on foot in this high pedestrain use zone. It can at times be very dangerous so be aware and cautious. I have brought it up randomly with staff and mostly I just get acknowledgement, empathy, combined with shrugs when it comes to solutions, hence minus one star.

Brandon

LOL, it seems like once a year this store/brand blows me away in the oddest ways possible. Adopting a “new price model” that increases the hell out of product prices just so the discounts look/sound better to the customer? Yeah, no. That’s corny af and I’m done after today’s purchase. Please understand how *crazy* you look to be the ONLY store selling a particular brands ounce for $522 when it’s still $380 elsewhere. Same brand, the eighths are now $80+ here as opposed to $60-$62 elsewhere… or I should say everywhere else. You can’t even price match at this point without losing money to the price increases you’ve put in place. Again, you look crazy and it definitely is shady business, which another customer pointed out. You can’t even blame wholesale prices going up—they’re only charging Uncle Ike’s more expensive wholesale pricing? Uhhkay.

Douglas Song

I decided to make a online order for this location yesterday on 11/21/23 at around 9:00PM because I heard good reviews about this Uncle Ike location. As I walk into the store, the female security who was working the door was cool about me not allowing her to touch my ID. The security guard showed me how to scan my ID to proceed with picking up my online order with my friend who came with me. After the security guard let us inside, the male who was by himself working the counter was making small talk behind our back towards the security guard and I can tell it was in regards to not wanting my ID touched. After my friend pulled her money out of the ATM, we walk up to the male bud-tender who did not look enthusiastic after we told him we were a online pick up. After the male bud-tender handed our stuff back, he slammed the cash register and didn't even say thank you then proceeded to walk away saying something under his breath. I never had this experience happen at the Olive Way location, you might want to rethink who you hire, maybe the bud-tender was having a bad day but it serves no right to be unprofessional and disrespectful to your local customers. My friend was very uncomfortable with the interaction and service that was provided at this Uncle Ike's location. I will not be returning to this location.

EC

Prices are good and service is usually good but they have messed up my preorders a number of times and a manager hasn’t been on site to fix them and since I paid I have no option to get a refund without waiting for a manager. Sigh. Should have gone elsewhere which I already know I should have cause you know, the politics.