Party City

If empty shelves and lack of inventory are your thing, this Party City is your place. Unfortunately, there aren’t many party stores in the area so you got to take what you can get.
Perhaps it isn’t all to the fault of Party City. I’ve never visited one of their locations between Christmas/​New Years and Valentine’s Day but maybe that’s the reason for the barren shelves.
Their lack of «welcome home» party supplies was disappointing. They didn’t have a single welcome home banner. They normally have two welcome home helium balloons, but they only had one in stock. It was military specific (which is obviously a great reason to welcome someone home), but not as fitting for someone coming home from the hospital. They did a nice job putting together big balloon and smaller balloons for us.
One of the employees did take some time to help me look for a banner so that counts for something. He also made a nice suggestion on a «make your own» banner. The other employees we encountered clearly did not want to be there.
There aren’t many other options. So happy shopping, I guess.

This review will probably have no effect but I have to share so here goes.
We went to party city to find last minute Halloween costumes. As expected it was very crowded and most costumes were sold out. The staff was very helpful. They looked stressed and overworked but they were trying their best to make sense of the demands put on them. All was well until we reached checkout. At checkout we found a 3 piece plastic stake which was BROKEN. We were about to spend 110 dollars on our costumes so we asked the cashier if we could have the BROKEN stakes for free. She burst out saying «Free??? Hahahha». We pushed so she asked the manager. He in turn mocked us and laughed at us and said we can have them for 3 dollars. After we spent 110 dollars in their store, they couldn’t even give us the BROKEN stakes. Such cheap behavior. I probably will never go back to this one ever!

I love this place! It’s the most convenient store to me that has the largest and best, hard to find, items needed for baking. I love to bake (hmmmmm should’ve added that to my profile), but supermarkets only carry the basics. Party city has real icing bags (not the disposable plastic kind, though they carry them as well), a plethora of sprinkles in different colors and sizes, icing and candy dye in colors besides primary, and even specialty tools like fondant rollers (and fondant), cake carriers, spatulas, etc. Yes, everyone knows they have party supplies, but if you like to decorate cakes, cookies, candies, or cupcakes, do yourself a favor and check them out!

I went to party city today to get some New Year’s Eve swag (hats, blowers, etc.). I know it was last minute and pretty close to the holiday but they were out of almost everything. I was able to grab a box for 10 people for $ 10, which was fine. I would have liked 2015 stuff but oh well. I would go back for other party stuff (cups, plates, etc.).

I went here to get my daughter’s halloween costume, I understand that halloween season is Party City’s busy season, so I knew I would not be in and out of the store in 5 minutes. But I was surprised that I was standing there for a good ten minutes without someone asking if we needed help because It wasn’t mobbed with a bunch of costumers, there weren’t that many costumers at all. So I asked a young women with a name-​tag on to help me, she rolled her eyes, and told a young man to help me. I already knew what I wanted, all he had to do was go in the back and get the two costumes. I waited another 10 minutes and he never came back. Finally I think it was a manager came over to me & asked if I was being helped, I told him what had happened and he looked embarrassed for his staff and was apologetic. He got my costumes right away, and I finally was able to get out of there. I’m pretty sure that the two costumer service assistants who bailed on me where just seasonal employee’s. I would suggest that Party City figure out a better way to deal with their busy season by next halloween.

GHETTO!!! My nephew and i just came to get one costume for himself when we waited till all the guys helping the womens figure their babies sizes. Come on! You don’t know your own child’s size in clothing. We were never helped only the you know what’s got helped which is complete ignorance.

If Acmoore doesn’t have it these guys sure will. The service isn’t the best but party city is the one stop shop for all party supplies. The prices are a bit more expensive compared to other places that offer much better coupons.

You know when you go to the doctor, because you have to go, but you’re like thinking to yourself, this is going to suck so hard and I’m going to hate it. That’s EXACTLY how I feel about trotting down to this Party City. While I’m driving down there I’m weeping to myself, «Okay you’re throwing a party. You need their eco friendly paper plates and cups and you need to inflate those two huge mylar balloons you bought off of Amazon. You literally can’t go anywhere else! You can do this! Go to Party City, Di!!!»
It’s partially how this place looks like on the outside… Oh and the inside. They have all this construction going on so every time I pull up, I’m like squinting at the hours on the door trying to determine if the joint is actually open because it’s looks SUPER closed not just a little closed. By the time I tentatively go in, and wander through the place I’m like, «Oh yeah. Look at all this crap! This rocks!»
I love how big this place is. They have a ton of Halloween stuff. They have napkins and table cloth in every rainbow color (and clear, silver, and black). So you’re having a luau party in December? Yeah, they got your back. Need all those little toys for goodie bags for your kid’s birthday? Yup, they got that too– with candy. And Bachelorette and Bridal stuff, I can’t type anymore my fingers are cramping… this place has GOT it. If they don’t, my bad.
So appearances aside, go for it. Rip off the bandaid fast and make the trek to Party City because Target may be prettier, but this place has got what you really need, baby.

I have been going here since they opened and if you know what you want its here just look. My only issue is when they have someone working the door they follow a family of 6 around when 2 kids walk in and nothing is said so maybe training is needed only in that area. 5 stars

The woman who rung up my order caught a wrong sticker when a tiny plastic bowl rang up at $ 9.99. A+. Then my total came up, and she scanned a 20% off coupon for me, which she did maybe because she could see the shock in my eyes when I realized how much I’d spent.
Party City is a terrible place for a person like me to go with a credit card. But now I have all of the platters and bowls and plastic wine glasses and tiny serving plates (I totally didn’t need the tiny plates but heck, let’s be fancy) for an upcoming party. It’s kind of like a dollar store, in that you think, «That’s cheap! So is that! And that!» but you forget that it all gets added together in the end. Whoops!

I went here to pick up some stuff for my mother’s 60^th birthday and it was worth the (long, on a bicycle) trek from Center City. It was not quite the hallucinogenic dreamland I had anticipated (maybe most of their Valentine’s day stock had already been sold off the shelf?), but nonetheless a very solid selection of party stuff in a ton of different colors. Price-​wise, it’s not too bad. 89 cents for a roll of crêpe streamers, $ 4 for a hanging-​letter «Happy Birthday» sign, $ 6 for a bunch of iridescent hanging stars. The place is mostly organized by theme (St. Patrick’s, Easter, retirement party, wedding, etc) and I thought the plain old birthday selection was a maybe a little lacking, although to be fair if you want any kind of special candle for the cake, they have it there. There is more space dedicated to filling goodie bags with disgusting individually wrapped candies and plastic trinkets than seems necessary. But overall, great place — can’t think of anywhere else in Philadelphia that even comes close to this kind of selection. If I ever throw a party again, I would definitely go back.

It’s Party City, so you pretty much know what to expect walking in. Five stars for being one of the only party supplies stores in the entire city. Minus one star for the check-​out process, which always seems to take far longer than it should. God forbid someone in front of you has a return. That’s an all hands on deck situation.
There is a great selection of trinkets for every possible occasion or theme. They even carry those tacky cake-​toppers where the bride is dragging the groom down the aisle. So there’s that. For elaborate or even unique costumes, go elsewhere. Party City carries the same costumes they always have, back since the days you scoured the Halloween circular when you were 12.

The floor-​to-​ceiling rainbow inventory of Party City is ideal for those who have forsaken hallucinogenic drugs but can still appreciate a solid trip-​out once in a while. Also good for Moms planning kiddie birthday celebrations.
Suffice to say, if «it» is garishly colored, totally wasteful and adds to that festive atmosphere you’re desperately striving for, this is where you will find it. There’s helium and mylar balloons, horrible-​tasting Disney princess piñata filler, «Over the Hill» gag diapers, goodie bag plastic and dye-​lot coordinated disposable plates, cups and napkins. It’s a supermarket of fun junk with plenty of tacky gems to take home.
In the run-​up to Halloween, they also devote a huge section of the store to costumes, accessories, face-​painting kits and other dress-​up ephemera. Find all this and more, right in the grimly proletarian KMart-​anchored shopping center on Oregon Ave in deep South Philly.