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What started out as a simple visit to the only shop that opens late in this part of town many years back has turned into my regular ritual every time I visit King St, Newtown. PentiMento has a certain charm on its store that overflows its front door it would be very hard for anyone passing by to not take notice.
PentiMento occupies a decent floor space and supplies the whole room with a warm atmosphere filled with contemporary, artful, and inspirational books and merchandises. The items range from novelties of high humour values at the front of the store up to high quality homewares at the back of the store. If it werent for the premium price tags, it would be almost impossible to not buy a lot of things from this store, either for gifts or to spoil yourself.
I dont really engage that much with the staffs except when I pay at the counter. Last time around the staff at the checkout was quite friendly and I appreciated his small talks.
I've always found the staff at Pentimento to be helpful and accommodating. When I've asked prices on items where it didn't appear clear they've acted promptly and professionally. Books I've bought (which are always for presents) have always been wrapped beautifully and with a smile. Maybe the difference is because I'm there to buy things ...read more
The "shop asisstants" and management here may have reasonable taste in their stock, but the seriously rude entirely negate any pleasure derived from shopping here. When Pentimento first opened it was a pretty unique place to shop. Thankfully there are now plenty of very decent and far less overpriced options handy to King St. If I wanted to be treated with disdain and annoyance I'd be at the real estate requesting repairs for our rented house.
