Do you offer gift wrapping services?
Urban General Store offers specialty gift wrapping at $5.95 per order.
Gift messages, if requested, will be written on a gift label and attached to the gift. If the message is too long, it will printed on a packing list and included in the box.
All price tags or indication of price will be removed from all gift orders (excluding books where the price is sometimes printed on the jacket cover).
During the holidays, we are able to offer Christmas wrapping paper and generic Winter wrapping paper. Please just email us at shop @ urbangeneralstore.com with any special requests.
What's with all the puns in the product descriptions?
If you don't like them... Mea culpa. But we were trying to look for fun, funny and different ways to describe the items we sell. This website is run by people not robots. We know these products. And, frankly, we really, really like them. Our retail store, ENJOY, AN URBAN GENERAL STORE, has a personality—when you walk in you sense the whimsy, joy and humor. People laugh out loud at our cards. They are inspired by our canvases. They blush at our "poo" stuff. We wanted our online store to have that same kind of strong personality so we thought some puns might be the way to go.
If you do like them...
Great! We've been looking for customers like you. You probably share our quirky sense of humor and tongue-in-cheek sensibilities. You are obviously exceedingly intelligent with keen powers of observation, a vast knowledge of pop culture and a Shakespearean sense of irony.
If you don't get them...
That's ok. They weren't very funny anyway. Please just look at the pictures and order the products. We'll send them to you quickly in a nice box or cute gift wrap (if requested). Just know that someone who really enjoys these items decided to put them on a website where you could order them and we could pack and ship them to you (or a friend).
Why do you feature Chicago Stars?
Chicago, Chicago, that toddling... wait, sorry. Just can't help ourselves. Chicago is the home of Urban General Store. And Urban General Store is the online counterpart to ENJOY, AN URBAN GENERAL STORE in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood.
Rebecca Wood opened the store at 4727 N. Lincoln Avenue (next to the beloved Cafe Selmarie) in July 2005. Immediately, the people of Chicago, and, more specifically, the people in Lincoln Square embraced Becca and her idea of a modern-day general store that featured gift items for a wide variety of shoppers catering to their busy urban lives by helping them accomplish all of their gift-giving in one place.
The "Chicago Stars" items are consistently among our best sellers. Native (and recent transplants and visitors) seem to embrace the lovable essence of Chicago—a big city with a Midwestern attitude. We've chosen to feature what we know, from where we live.