Hometown Sports

For West Linn branded sports merchandise, they are the primary source in town. However, customer service is not their strong suit. Not to say I haven’t had some really good interactions with the business, but I’ve also experienced the bad.
They offer sports apparel and accessories and do expand beyond West Linn, in particular offering a fair amount of Lake Oswego items. The store is very small, so it isn’t a terribly large selection of anything. For years it was superior to O.C. Sports until that business recently expanded and now I feel like this store may need to play catch-​up.
The sweetest experiences have been when my son is spending his allowance in the store. He will regularly see something he likes then make repeated visits as he saves up, all the time hoping the item goes on sale. They do have a small clearance rack behind the counter, but not a lot of big sales during the year.
When he was paying for one item he’d saved for months to purchase, he started pulling out ones, quarters, nickles, etc. The employee/​owner had a really nice conversation with him about what he did (chores) to earn the money. Nice when not only mom and dad reinforce the hard work = reward concept.
I would like to reward them with a higher rating, but the majority of my many experiences have been in the two to three star range.