A very friendly place. Their customer service is the best. Comfortable chairs all Round the place. Great selection of books and gift item to buy. If you wanna get away for a spell and you love books, then visit this place; come see why I give it 5 stars. You gonna love it.

Ive been a Greetings & Readings fan since before they moved to Hunt Valley and the store keeps getting better and better. They have an amazing selection of cards, books, gifts (including Vera Bradley, Brighton, Yankee Candle and more) and a wide variety of Ravens and Orioles gear. They often have local authors visit to sign their books, so the bibliophile in me is happy. They will even give you a free gift box and bow for your purchase, which is always a benefit for those last-minute purchases!

We custom-ordered our wedding invitations here, and they were beautiful! The service was wonderful, too! This is also a great place to get gifts and everything Baltimore-related.

UPDATE: Sadly, they closed in January, 2019.They have everything!!! Books, magazines, toys, treats, jewelry, apparel, cards, gifts, Hallmark products, and much more! Always enjoy my visits!

Staff is always friendly and helpful. They have an amazing selection of unique gifts for anyone on your list

This is such an awesome store. It broke my heart when I heard they are going out of business this month. Quite devastating.

My husband and I visited this establishment on our anniversary since there is a large selection of items including, Vera Bradley which I love. Immediately walking into this establishment I felt as though I had committed a crime. Every selection my husband and I looked at, every aisle we turned down there was some following us! We even went to the Biblical section in order to purchase a new devotional and there someone was literally lurking. I can appreciate that it may be the companys policy to distribute its workers throughout the store as it is a fairly large establishment; HOWEVER, when there are several other people shopping and walking around the establish that look gravely different than myself and my husband it becomes extremely noticeable that you are being singled out and discriminated against. The last straw was when I observed a sales lady pick up the telephone which had not rang, put it to her ear and walked around my husband and I as if we were thieves whom she could not wait to catch in the act of celebrating 8 years of marriage. I would never buy anything from this establishment, but I will go back to see if this is a regular occurrence and will move through the chain of administration if and when it does occur again!

LARGE selection of fun, unique, and useful gifts for all different types of people. Prices seemed reasonable for the quality.

Much love for the familes behind this. I rmemerem going to tbe Loch Raven store as a kid and loved the trains. Sad my kid will miss out. Thank you for everything youve done for our community

I,love this store.It has everything that you could,ask for in a gift store/book store,/card,store combined,The,sales people are friendly,and know the merchamdise,.They have Vera,Bradley, cross pen and pencils jewelry some clothes, handmade soap chocolate and even Fishers popcorn I can spend hours in the store its just fun

Such a fun shop, SO much to shop, from Alex and Ani to Vera Bradley they have all of your gifting needs!

So sad to see this fine store close its doors.

Awesome place. If you need a card, wrap, book, childs gift or gift of any kind (young, old, male, female) you cant go wrong with Greetings & Readings.

I am posting a bad review of G & R. I was simply trying ro return a $25 christmas ornament that someone already had. It was Dec 23 and we bought it a week ago. Apparently after I stood there for five minutes staring at six sloppy looking employees wrapping presents one looked up and asked what I needed. I said I had a return. She mumbled, Is anyone doing returns? Then they all went back to work. Finally another woman from the same group asked me two minutes later what I needed. I told her a return again. Another woman from the group looked up and said they do not return holiday merchandise. Another one stated there are signs at the register. The reciept states 30 days. The lazy woman asked another woman who agreed they could not take it back. I think I should have at least gotten an exchange. Now I have a useless ornament that I will hopefully be able to regift. I think they should print this ridiculous policy on the receipt or say something at time of purchase. Wasted gas, money and time.

The best bookstore &The Baltimore area been doing business with them for over 20years love them 10/14/17

Great customer service and great place for just about everything

Joyce A.While the selection was wonderful, the customer service/interaction was horrible and directly discriminatory. My daughter and I visited the store the afternoon of March 3, 2017 after receiving a lovely spa in the area, we went in the store in search of particular item and browse (Ive always been a huge fan of Greetings & Readings, love to browse all the really neat gifts) We both noticed that every isle we went down a sales woman (different ones) would come over to straighten something in the area we were in, this happened the entire time we were there. I found it very odd that as soon as we walked toward the escalator (after the purchase) the sales lady went back behind the counter. NO ONE went over to the group of school girls gathered around one of the rotating merchandise displays ...even though we made a purchase, a very small purchase I would have made a much larger purchase because I loved the selection of the wine glasses by Lolita and the Alex & Ani braclets. which I collect. As I am sure me not spending my projected $200 is not going to make or break Greetings & Readings the entire situation made me feel very uncomfortable, unwanted and stereotyped. I felt the need to share with the customers reviewing this and potentially going to spend their hard earned dollars at this location what I experienced.Joyce A.

Such a shame this store is closing after almost 50 years. It will be sorely missed.

#Can always find the perfect gift

They really should just remove Readings from the shop title as the selection shrinks with every visit to make room for more tourist junk merch, hallmark overpriced trash and candy.Whats the point really, no plans to return, i used to enioy buying books here.

Had a good time. Visit with Santa Claus with grandson!!!

Sad its closing. Was a Bmore fixture. I used to go there back when they were at Loch Raven and Taylor ave.

Great place to get a graduation card.

So sad that they are closing after 49 years. You will be missed!

Lots of things from books,jewelry,toys,snacks,and a lot of other things.

Great place for cards and gifts

Great card selection with great gifts.

So sorry to hear theyre closing. A real gem.

Great place to shop!!! 😎

So sad to see it close!

OK store, lots of kitche

Love this store

It has everything you need and more.

Too expensive!

Out of business

Fantastic

Going out of business

CLOSING.

Sad they are closing

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