Hot Topic

Small location but the employees are nice and I don’t feel like I’m being watched like a hawk in there, even with my middle schoolers in tow. Don’t buy anything full price — they are always running great sales!

This newer Hot Topic is a small store next to its companion brand, Torrid.
While this place offers quite a lot of items, things are organized in a way that makes browsing a little difficult. Almost everything is hanging high on the walls, normal for a Hot Topic, but with almost nothing at customer-​level and lighting that makes it difficult to look at everything high up.
I came here looking for a specific item, which I couldn’t find. I asked one employee about it, and he politely said he’d ask about it. He consulted with the two employees behind the counter.
One of these employees was extremely helpful — she checked stock online, disappeared in the back to look through everything, and then gave me the info for the closest Hot Topic carrying the item. No complaints at all here.
However, the other employee simply said they didn’t have the item, and that she had «sold the last one herself» recently. When I said I couldn’t come back if they ordered it to the store, she just shrugged and then stopped talking to me.

I’m here all the time. Great location for pop figures and mystery minis. Friendly and helpful staff. They usually always have some sort of deal or sale going on too.

I’ve been itching to get some new plugs! I randomly decided to check out Hot Topic’s selection while in Downtown Summerlin and found that they had gauges on clearance AND were on a Buy One, Get One for $ 1 Promotion.
An employee was at the ready to pluck my new earrings from the locked case and even helped me determine which gauges to buy just by eye-​balling my lobes lol. Looks like a 2 and a 6, she said. She was right on the money! My new plugs are a perfect fit. For two sets on plugs, I only paid $ 12 + change. That’s an awesome price!
For checkout, the line kinda took forever but that fact that Hot Topic offers a 10% military discount (even on clearance items!) smoothed over the long wait time.
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