Rainbow Shops

Took my little sisters shopping (14&15) and both are COMPLETELY different when it comes to style. Yet they were able to find stuff they each really wanted. I’m «super sized» but they had a fourth of the store full of nice thing for me! (I’ll have to go back when my paycheck is aaaall mine) The store was well kept and organized which made things easier. The workers were attentive, nice, and on a random note, have a great sense of humor. There’s a Rainbow 7 minutes away from my home, but NOTHING like this store. This one is worth the drive for me.

A girl working here was so rude… I went to her for help and I said «hi» for greeting and get her attention. Then she stared at me for a second and then say «what?». I thought maybe she doesn’t work here and I confused her. So I asked and it turned out that she does work here…
Well… I won’t be back again. I feel very uncomfortable for her attitude…

I wonder all the time why this place is stil open. Its hard to find what you’re looking for because theres not enough room to shop around. The other day I bought a shirt for my sister and I took it back and thought I needed was just the reciept but instead the girl behind the counter needed to see my drivers license and enter my information into the computer. I was not ok with that especially with all the fraud going on. Since this place does not have barely any shoppers, perhaps they should put a «Grand Opening» sign up like some failing businesses do to get customers.

When I come here… I know what I’m getting into. This store is pure «janky»…and it’s fun. You might fall down trying to get through all the merchandise crammed together, creating almost unnavigable isles. The clothes are cute, sexy, trendy, and inexpensive. This place is for variety instead of quality. The staff sometimes talk to themselves, because people rarely go in. I like it because: where else can you find a cute shirt in 12 different colors?
My main question is this: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE $ 3 RACK?

A lot of cute tops. Affordable. I just hate how there ain’t alot of room. I can’t walk with out knocking something over or have a hanger caught in my bag or shirt. Also need to clean up on the bra isle. The place near the cashier area looks a mess! overall the cashiers were really helpful.

5 stars for having cute afforadable tops that fit me boobies prettyily.
I bought 5 trendy tops for 47 bucks. Wow!!!
The store is cramped, I had to choose to search through whats available cause it does seem overwhelming to have to search racks of tightly packed clothes.
The store is staffed byteenagers, hey they gotta work too, sorta distant and appriopately polite. They were cheery in their initial greetings and have a nice day when I left.
One girl in her enthsuiasm to keep up with her work load put the clothes away I had gathered to try on.
They has super cute stuff that cost a bit more between 15 and 22 bucks so I stayed to the clearance racks which were 10 and 9 bucks.
How does it get any better than that. I was surprised to see so many enthusiastic white women with their guys shopping here.
See I know Rainbow from the EastMont Mall era when they didn’t have cute stuff for cute fat chicks like me and I had to make myself be that slightly smaller size so I could have something cute to wear too. I mean it said Large but clearly not my kind of large more like skinny large. And back then the quality of the clothes were highly lacking.
While I perceive the quality to have been increased I did notice the dye of the clothes broke my skin out. Hmmmm toxic clothes ok not organic am I gonna wear this anyway.
You Betcha I’ll increase my intake of Kombucha and wheatgrass.
I wonder what happens to the inventory that isn’t sold when the «styles» change?

This store is my guilty pleasure. Don’t come here if you want good customer service. Yes, the clothes are cheaply made and urban fabulous. They’re very inexpensive too and if you look thoroughly enough you can find some cute outfits. You have to take your time and really search though. Some of the clothes feel either preteen or adult inappropriate. The hunt is what makes it fun. No bland, clean-​cut, middle-​of-​the-​road Gap clothes here.

The other reviews are right, the merchandise is packed tight into the sales space, and the clothing is all sweatshop and priced as such.
The reason why I went into this store is because the only time you can get away with cheap clothing is if it’s fun.
And these clothes were no fun.
Where are the ruffles? The bright colors? The embellishments, the fun prints, the kinky stockings, the obnoxiously loud accessories?
NOT IN THIS STORE.
Rainbow, you dashed my hopes of finding a few pieces of splash to make my outfits cute. I’m over you.

This store has the worst customer service ever! The employess act like they are being bothered by your presence as a customer. The fashion there is usually hit or miss. It’s cheap and you get what you pay for. It’s usually 50% cute stuff, and 50% skanky trash.

Okay, now I feel better for «ghetto» being the only thought in my mind when I actually started paying attention to the sales associates.
Clothing aside, which I will get to later, the girls who were staffing the counter when I was here probably weren’t out of their teens.
They all gave off the vibe they were hired last week, by someone drunk who was currently on vacation and not caring that they can barely use a register and chew gum at the same time.
And while I liked the do it yourself item switcher because you can only have three items at a time in the dressing room, what exactly is the point of it, since they don’t pay attention anyway?
The clothing is cheap. I mean it’s obvious the quality is a step down from old navy and a step up from a hospital gown.
But the price matches the quality. So for a club wear item, which if you wear… maybe twice a month, it’s not too bad for 5 bucks since they have more variety than H&M.
So, cheap and low quality, shoddy service and ghetto.
And I’d still come back… hmmm.

My 12-​year old can always find something in this store. I have bought myself some cute purses, shoes & earrings, but the clothes don’t fit, and I’m not really a «big» woman.
This Rainbow is a «Juniors» store according to the employees. The one in West Oakland carries larger and «Plus» sizes. I hate having to pass this one by and go all the way down to West Oakland. This one should carry a larger variety of sizes.
This store has way too much inventory crammed into too little a space. There’s a center aisle, but the clothes racks are too close together, you have to turn sideways to get in between the racks.

HAHA– i am just laughing my head off reading the other posts because they are ABSOLUTELY BOTH correct!!!
I’ve been to this Rainbow clothing store wondering what the heck it was and thought «Ghetto!!!»…but interestingly enuff after that one time look around i did end up going their recently two times… first time, i bought some leggings (really needed the colors brown and
tan ones). I also fell for their cheap imposter perfume/​cologne deal of 3 for $ 10. But that wasn’t that bad because I don’t care if it’s a brand name when it comes to perfume/​colognes and all I really do care about is if it is NOT too strong… can’t stand too strong smells…
Second time that I was browsing around here I found 2 cute outfits, one a purple sweater dress and a t-shirt…cost me all under $ 20. I also wanted some cheapo (price wise) boots but they didn’t have my size in the style I wanted… but that’s ok, I have a growning collection of boots.
So, I go home and guess what??? The guy who rung me up forgot to take off that «Thief buzzer detector» on my dress!!! Damn, if I had went into another place and that thing started ringing I would have been so mad!!! So, there paranoia about thieves= their stupidiy or carelessness about removing those devices…
Next day I went to the counter and explained to them my situation. The lady was about to help me, wanting to see my receipt. But then the guy whose fault it was decided to help me. He probably realized how much he screwed up because he was talking on the phone when he rang me up and yes he is sooooooooooooo gay!!! I don’t want to mention what I heard about him telling his female co-​workers ditz about what he said about his gay experince… that’s up to u if u happen to come to Rainbow… hmmmm now I know why it’s called Rainbow??? It’s the gay guy amidsts many female co-​workers in a store that is mainly women’s clothing (minus the cologne)…hmmmmm

My sister and I always joke that this is the ghetto store.
Yet today I walked away with two pairs of gorgeous pumps, a cute tote, and three pairs of earrings for $ 30. I’m not going to lie, walking into the store is somewhat horrific. [At this time,] They’re somewhat obsessed with a really cheesy plaid.
However, they have some okay designer imposter perfumes, 3 for $ 10, a lot of basics for $ 6 is you buy 2. I would say (based on my purchases) that they have better deals on accessories. I can honestly say that the shoes me and my sister bought were the only ones that were cute (in our taste) there. Many accessories are only $ 1 or are an additional 50% off. The clothes were definitely not the high point of the experience.
The staff was okay — they’re not the most efficient. They didn’t have a dressing room attendant. The cashier closest to the dressing rooms was monitoring it. Yelling at a girl going in was rather funny.

At the end of this rainbow there is no pot of gold, only a nasty bunch of surly (and surely) underpaid, miserable employees who consistently make customers feel like thieves. Bitchtasticness abounds, and not in the good way. When checking out, after waiting for one lovely lady to finish getting her money together for her BurgerKing lunch she had me go get the replacement item from the rack since the one I had was sans tag…“get the white one so it says it on your receipt” uh huh. So while you’re waiting for me to steal something I get to to your job.
There’s a 3 item limit in the dressing room, and they conveniently hang the remainder of your possible purchases by the register, which means you have to get dressed back in your clothes to get the next 3 things. I’m beginning to feel like they don’t want my money.
But alas, I handed over under $ 50 for 2 hoodies, 2 shirts & a pair of pants. Quality begone, this place is about quantity! Cheap, cheap cheap all around. But as long as you know what you’re getting & don’t expect it to last long it’s okay to pay $ 15 for a dress to wear to the club.
I left feeling frustrated & a bit surly myself… but those feelings fade & my new cheap clothes will too, but I’ll get some good wear out of them first.