Morning Glory

I’ve been going to this shop since I was young and it makes me sad to see people giving them such bad reviews. Aunty is so friendly and always makes sure to ask me how I am. Her and her husband are very hospitable. They are not mean-​spirited like people have made them out to be in their reviews; you just have to be respectful of the rules of their shop. Don’t take pictures of the merchandise and don’t touch the fragile objects and you should be good to go! Can you really blame them for scolding people who violate the rules of the store, especially when there are signs specifically saying not to touch/​take pictures? My experience at this shop has always been excellent. The merchandise is so cute; if you like Sanrio, San-​X, K-​pop, and other Asian trinkets, stationary, and plushies, then this is the shop for you!

Me and my sister went in there a couple of weeks ago. And let me tell u that I feel very uncomfortable the whole time I was there! We were being watched really closely and the old lady keep following me every where I go. The husband at the cashier also eyeing my every movement. I mean come on! Can you just let us enjoy our shopping? I grab a pencil and told the old lady that I am just going to buy just a pencil. But then she tried to convinced me to buy the lead refill for the pencil by telling me «The lead is really strong! You know?! should buy!» Seriously!!! lead is just lead!!! Oh my god!!! Why don’t you come up with a better excuse next time??? It’s true that there are so many cute stuff but lol if you want to feel like a prisoner being on watch then go ahead. Too bad… This place could heve gotten a lot of good reviews if they treat their customer better…

Place is pretty junky on the inside, not well-​organized, and selection is not too great. Also, most of the merchandise looks fake compared to items I’ve purchased in Japan. I took my phone out to send a text when I was in the store and the lady accused me of trying to take pictures of the merchandise and pointed to a sign on the wall saying that we can’t take pictures in the store. First rude person I met during my visit to Hawaii.

Make sure you don’t have your phone around texting. Lol, the lady thought I was trying to take pictures of her store and said I can’t! Haha I wasn’t trying to.

Can someone say RETAIL THERAPY???
LOVE LOVE LOVE this shop — I see that the shop has reviews about their courtesy and perhaps I go at the right time? The wife is soooo fun to chat with and the husband has always been cordial/​professional with me.
There are SOOOO many cute things to choose from here? Where the heck to do you begin? It’s a great shop to buy birthday presents for others, but really, I LOVE finding things here for myself. I love their ultra fine, and ultra cute pens! They always have me coming back for more! And their notebooks are super cute too!
It’s a little overwhelming when you first enter, but I’ve been a MG fan for so long that I know where things are and I appreciate the fact that she has no choice but to keep things in their packaging otherwise the spines are bent, things are mishandled, etc. Aaaaah — the joys of being an owner!

Been there Twice and the Korean Man was very nice. The first time I was the only one there and he didnt make me feel uncomfortable at all, but encouraged me to look and open some things. The second time was a little crowded but he also encourage kids to open up the notebooks and look in the bags. I will definitely be back as I have a new found love for everything in this store

I legitimately haven’t been to this place probably since I was in 8^th grade. I needed a daily planner but not willing to spend an arm and a leg on some leather bound book, I’m not that fancy. The inner fob in me remembered morning glory! Supah cheap! Thankfully it’s in the same exact place it’s been since the last time I was there 14 years ago. Woo! Despite the reviews about how they treat kids, I took my 7 year old with me. She’s a pretty well behaved kid as it is, but I still warned her not to touch anything. It’s exactly how I remembered it. We were greeted right away, both the lady & man were there. They didn’t follow us around, they didn’t watch my daughter like a hawk, she asked if I needed help and took me to what I needed. She opened the packages & showed me all the different planners & asked what kind I wanted. She made conversation, complimented my daughter, nothing like the reviews said. I found what I was looking for but still wanted to browse. I was pretty bummed they stopped making the planners that you buy the inserts for. I remember so fondly trading paper & stickers with my friends back in the day. It seriously took all my self control to not go wild. I’m an adult now, I have money now. My mom wasn’t there to tell me no. I could’ve bought all the led pencils and ultra bright colorful pens I wanted!
But I did not. I bought some color pencils for my daughter & my planner for me. It obviously cost more than it did back in the day, but not as bad as people made it seem. I will probably be back soon.

So, there are the kind of shops with the kind and pleasant workers that make you want to shop there. This place is the exact opposite. The workers here are horrible! Looks like a husband and wife and both are equally as uninviting.
As for the store itself, there is a sign on every shelf that says, «we are rude.» Actually, the signs don’t say that, but they say something else that is just as offending like, «don’t take pictures of our prices because then you will know you can get the same stuff online for cheaper.»
In my opinion, most of their merchandise is not authentic. Overall, you should only go to this shop if you want to be treated rudely or are in the mood to deal with good-​for-​nothing people. This couple that runs this shop are just rotten and miserable people.
Aloha!

I was searching for a piggy bank, of all things, so I randomly checked this place out. Well, it must have been my lucky day because the rack right in front of the door was full of piggy banks of all different sizes. The woman who was working was extremely nice and helpful. She even gave me some free skincare products. Score! In addition to piggy banks, they have various different toys, knick-​knacks, lots of Totoro memorabilia, and more.

When I got into the store I was sooo so overwhelmed with the many cute things in this huge store. I grew up collecting Morning Glory mechanical pencils & I was so eager to visit this place for the very first time. There used to be so many morning glory locations but now it’s only in Honolulu & Mililani… I even looked through Unilocal reviews. I don’t know what everyone was talking about, the owner of the store was super friendly! I felt so welcomed into her store and she was so kind enough to help me. The prices were reasonable as they seem to be the same as when I was growing up so I was expecting the prices to be as they were… but just $ 8 for a Pencil case? Can’t argue with that! I walked out really happy & pleased with the customer service, can’t wait to go back :)

Cute korean stuff

I walked in and it was an empty shop. I didn’t mind, it just meant that I wouldn’t bump into anyone while searching high and low for anything I might have liked in the shop. I walked into the little place with high hopes in finding something, anything. Immediately as I walked in, I felt the old man eyeballing me like no tomorrow. I read the reviews about how him and his wife were kinda wacko, but I didn’t realize the full extent of it until I experienced it myself. I found a huge Keroppi pin after circling the store a couple times, and since Keroppi is my second favorite Sanrio character, I wanted to buy it! I asked the man what the minimum debit purchase was, and he said it was $ 7.00. The pin was $ 2.50. I carried the pin with me as I circled the place a few more times so I could find something with the pin so I could make the $ 7.00 minimum in order to use my card, since I didn’t have any cash on me. He watched me like a hawk the whole time I carried it. But, he was pretty eager to sell me stuff in the glass case up near the register, but otherwise he just felt really rude. Am I really going to steal a $ 2.50 pin? Is he really worried about that? Eventually I gave up on looking for anything else that caught my eye, so I thought I had OBVIOUSLY put it back, emphasizing my movements and everything. I walked out of the store and I was a good 20 feet away before he came out and chased after me, asking me in a suspicious and loud voice about where I put the pin, and if I had it. I told him, «no I didn’t steal it, I put it back at the same spot». And he just walked back inside without apologizing. Horrible. Just horrible.

This place is Kawaii Heaven. Literally has so much CUTE accessories and dolls. It is too difficult to name them all.
I wish I had proof, but when I was looking at items in the store. LITERALLY, every display case had a «No picture taking» and «DO NOT TOUCH» and «ASK ASSOCIATE FOR HELP if you like to SEE» and «DO NOT open plastic cover on Notebooks»
Seriously? they might as well have a 10×10 poster out of their store with those rules. I get it, they probably had some kids back in the day steal and break things, but come on! I felt like I couldn’t even touch a pencil. I wanted to take a closer look at the cool coffee mugs but How am I suppose to check it out, I have to ask the employee if I can pick it up and see the price. LOL
The guy was following this one family that was in there and they had a 4yr old wanting everything (well duh) and roaming around, and a little bit after he started following us.
Every time we touched something, he would glare. He was smiling and friendly though, but I felt as if he was similar to my dad like when I was a child and if I wanted something, his stare means NO. Yikes! I did end up buying a medium size Totoro doll, and I have been wanting one but this doll here was like $ 60! He was friendly to us, but that stare though. Gave me the creeps.
After purchasing the Totoro items, he took off the PRICE sticker. I cant believe I didnt bother to look at the price on the bottom after he told us how much he was selling it for. That right there was sketchy and RUDE. Just why would you take off my price sticker? I felt ripped off. That was bad on my part though, usually I always look at prices, but considering I felt like a little girl in a candy store that was bound to happen.
I do not think I will be back here unless I want to get someone a gift, but this place is expensive, but seeing all those warning signs on display case already you can tell they are strict.
This place is really what you call WINDOW SHOPPING, since you cant touch the items here. It is worth looking around, but purchasing items I would go somewhere else unless you want it badly like how I was.

I read the reviews before posting my own experience with this store. My daughter, grandson and I went to this store this morning. Yes, the owner was friendly until we did something she didn’t like. My grandson is only 8 months old and I was pushing him in his stroller. Mind you the store is small and the aisles narrow, the baby reached over and touched her precious merchandise. I moved him from touching more things. I apologized for his touching and she told me that he wasn’t touching he was grabbing. He only reached for one item and after that I kept my eye on him because she was keeping her eye on us.
This should have been enough but then she started harassing my daughter. We went into this store for my oldest grandchild. We found something she might like so my daughter was going to take a picture and show it to her later. If she liked it, we would have went back to buy it. The owner immediately told her not to take pictures of her merchandise. My daughter understood and stopped. However, she didn’t put her phone away. She was receiving a text and was responding to her messages. The owner kept insisting that she was still taking pictures and wanted to see her phone. Daughter told her that she wasn’t but the owner kept arguing with her. She even threatened to call the police. My daughter told her to call them and she would show the police her phone but not to the owner. Then she told us that we were no longer allowed in her store. I told the owner she was rude and even if we wanted to buy something she lost a customer.
I’m sorry but this whole experience makes me really angry, You go into a store, hope to leave happy and continue to do business with them. Instead, you get harassed and threatened. If I could give a review less then one star, I would.
I hope the owner reads her Unilocal reviews. You need to change your attitude towards your customers. We are there to help your business grow and flourish. With your current customer care, you’ll be losing customers instead of gaining. In fact, two other customers were in the store with us but they left without buying because of the way we were treated.

My family was in this shop earlier, and my sister was texting her boyfriend. The lady then told my sister not to take pictures, which my sister said okay. My sister then continued to text her boyfriend, and the lady through a fit and started threatening to call the cops. My sister told her to go ahead and call the cops. Her phone is her phone, so the lady can’t touch it. After threatening to call the cops a third time, and my sister refusing to show her the phone, she then told my family to never come back to her store. My family left, and the other two customers in the store left as well. Now I’m going to make sure my family and friends don’t visit this shop ever again.

I’m not in to cutesy stuff. In fact, the last time I went to Morning Glory was probably during my pre-​teen years. Add in the horror story reviews that I had just read on Unilocal and you can picture my hesitation in coming here. On the way over, I prepared myself for battle… or at least for some really terrible service.
Thankfully, I didn’t need my invisible bubble shield because I had a good experience. Aunty was super helpful and showed me some of the more popular stuff for my little cousin. She didn’t try to sell me face cream but I did hear her drop the spiel to another woman. Uncle was busy unpacking new merchandise to care that I was there. When I had to go back a couple days later, Uncle actually rang me up and he was pretty pleasant.
Downside is that their stuff is a little pricey but I guess that’s because you can’t really get it anywhere else except Morning Glory.

Funny story about this place. I don’t ever want to make bad reviews, ever, but it have to share this one experience my friend and I had here. A couple years ago we walked into this store. I was looking to buy a small pencil case and a lanyard. I looked at all the prices, I was shocked! So my friend and I kept looking around the store. The whole time, the worker lady was just watching and following us all over the store. We felt very uncomfortable…
THEN! –this is the funny part– my friend decides to take a picture of one of the key chains they had hanging, and while she was doing so the worker lady immediately ran to us and yelled at my friend for having her camera phone out. She told her to delete the photo, but my friend didn’t get a chance to even take a picture. The lady didn’t believe us and she kept harassing us the whole time. She kept saying «Gimmie your phone! I like see your phone!!» We showed her the phone with no pictures, and walked away. With the lady following close behind watching our every move. I’m not even being sarcastic, she was right next to us. My friend was texting someone after and the lady immediately thought we were taking pictures. Again, she told us to show her our phones in a demanding way AND show her our text messages to prove to her that we actually were texting. Then the worker held her hand out and tried to take our cell phones out of our hands! At that point we were like, wtf is your problem?! We just walked out as fast as we could and left.
Horrible experience there. but now that I look back at it, it’s kind of funny. We were about 17, so I guess she was paranoid about two teenagers walking in her store. But that’s no reason to treat your customers with bizarre disrespect!

Dunno about the other reviewers but I like this place and the 2 Korean store owners (husband and wife). They always make conversation and are never pushy with me. I usually pick up about 30 bucks a pop each time I stop in. They even know who I’m getting the items for since we always strike up a conv about my daughter doing well in school and since I buy something for her I have to pick up something for my younger son. I think some people may not be used to different ethnicites and how they relate to others, and may feel a bit offended by their behavior, but, that’s just my opinion. Don’t be so sensitive peeps, lifes short.
They have such a great selection of stuff and its sooooo cute! Naruto, Inuyasha, and Totoro all stocked! They also have a large selection of stickers, especially those girl dress up ones that the all the young elementary kids are into nowadays. I try not to get too engrossed into looking at everything because that would just be trouble for my wallet!
Gamsamida!

Be careful about being too nice and looking like you are willing to buy a lot. Auntie spent 20 minutes trying to sell me on a $ 50 jar of face cream and it was super hard to continue to be polite yet firm that I just wanted the school supplies.
Still a great place to shop, still recommend be polite, but be careful about looking like you are willing to buy more than you came in for!

Thought the selection was great, and we did not find the male worker to be unpleasant to deal with. I did find the plethora of signs about «you break it, you buy it» to be rather tacky.
Overall the prices seemed higher compared to other places that carried some of the same items — however this store had a wider selection of items stocked as well.