It’s called Showcase. If you’re looking for something hard to find because it’s new and trendy, Showcase is your go-to store.
Difficult to define anything other than trend. It can be health and beauty items. Toys. Candy. Home items. It could be anything. The common denominator is what’s new and trendy.
Example: “Squid Game” inspired Dalgona cookies.
Funko appears. (Why are they hot? I don’t know, but high school kids buy them for each other.) Trading cards. You name it. If it’s trendy, they have it.
A new Showcase store just opened on September 19 at the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, near the Cinemark Cinema on the lower level. This is their third Garden State location after Bridgewater and Freehold. You can bet my son and daughter spent money at their Bridgewater location in the Bridgewater Commons mall.
Three more are coming soon to New Jersey. With no exact opening dates, locations in Edison, Rockaway and Paramus are on the way.
For such a “trendy” store: they’ve actually been around for a while. Founded in Canada, they started in 1994. They haven’t always been so hip and trendy. They reinvented themselves around 2003. Before that, they were more of an infomercial. store where you could find all these types of products, there are 127 locations across Canada and the United States.
It looks like one of those stores where I would just feel old and not invited to the party. But hey, if fashion is your thing, they’ve got you.
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