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This area is has a lot of different warehouse sales, but I think William Ashley is the biggest one?
All the parking lots in the area are closed off and has a special event parking fee of $5. One side of the road are filled cars, and the other side has sign saying you can't park there or it will be towed, with the tow truck in sight, you don't have much choice.
They set up a big tent outside of the building, and you have to line up there to get inside. The line up was there because they have to follow the fire code, they can't let too many people inside a building at the same time. And also you have to line up for a shopping cart. Unless you are not buying any big items or only have one item in mind, I would suggest you wait for the cart, as the "tray" they give you is a big cardboard box which doesn't hold much. (If you are going with someone, you can split up and shop first and let your friend to wait for the cart.)
Once you are inside (wait time is about 30 minutes, with the "tray" line at about 10 minutes), it's a kitchenware warehouse filled with people!
Most of the items are at a similar price as other kitchenware store, and the items are pretty much the same.
My focus of this visit is to get a Le Creuset pot. They have a pretty good range of selection, and choice of colours are: purple(cassis), green(spinach), yellow(yellow dijon), and one orange pot, and one blue frying pan.
All the colours that they have are discontinued, so if you love the purple, or a collector who wants to collect one item in every colour that is available, it's the time.
The sales price are at least 20% lower than the sales price at any website that I have seen, so I bought 5.
They have poster outside for all-clad pans, but I don't see any of it inside. And the knife selection are very limited, hopefully they will do better next year at the new location?
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