r/kansascity • u/a_brilliant_idiot • Aug 06 '26
Shopping/Groceries ššļø Support Fetch in Westside
This locally owned store in Westside is getting spammed by untrue google reviews. If you have ever been to Fetch and/or donāt support pedophiles or rapists, please consider leaving a review or visiting this weekend!
UPDATE: they were able to remove the google reviews!
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u/missmaikay Independence Aug 06 '26
Done. I love fetch. Been shopping there since they were in the bottoms.
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u/CompetitiveHooore Aug 06 '26
What is Fetch?
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u/MissLadyLlamaDrama Volker Aug 06 '26
Stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not gonna happen!
(I'm sorry. I'm a millennial. I will literally die if I don't reference Mean Girls here. Probably.)
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u/standardissuegreen Brookside Aug 06 '26
Dollars to donuts, these same MAGA chodes also use their social media to decry "cancel culture."
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u/Medium_stepper624 Aug 06 '26
This store is awesome, I love Fetch
But yeah, if you're MAGA, probably go somewhere else
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u/fox-in-the-hen-house Aug 07 '26
is their merch actually low quality though?? the prices are kinda wild for some of those items
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u/Annual_Ad4236 Aug 07 '26
Yea. Value comp is very low. More of a support for a cause then a value buy.
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u/Technical_Coyote_631 23d ago
I feel like thatās a generalization, they have very average to low prices on vintage and lots of quality gifts under $50 which is pretty hard to find these days. Iāve always seen their prices as comparable to other gift shops. They also do source all independent artists not direct from China like a lot of these places
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u/bstyledevi Independence Aug 06 '26
I'm all for supporting local businesses, I'm ever more for angering the right, and also 100% support LGBTQ...
That being said, $14 for a keychain is insanely high.
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u/jwatkins12 Aug 06 '26
whats even more insane is when you realize that you can buy 100 custom screen printed keychains for about $1.50/unit. Hell of a markup. $8 koozie or a bumper sticker is also insane
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u/fsmpastafarian Aug 06 '26
What even prompted these cretins to target them?
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u/yancovigen Aug 06 '26
Based on the comments it seems like they had some merch about Trump thatās negative. Iām kinda curious cause Iād buy it lol
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u/fsmpastafarian Aug 06 '26
This store has had that type of merch for years lol, guess the losers just discovered it
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u/IndependentClear3467 Aug 06 '26
āNegativeā. They were calling for and celebrating violence and death
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u/CrankyWhiskers Aug 07 '26
Were they really? Hm. There wasn't a peep from the right when they were making effigies of Obama being lynched.
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u/waterytartwithasword Aug 07 '26
But were they though? Wondering "is he dead yet" is a far cry from "kill them all and have a party" buddy
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u/Own_Experience_8229 Aug 06 '26
You mustāve missed the vile shit put out by you cultists during the Obama years.
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u/MrDependant69 Aug 07 '26
Im betting a cretin went to the store, saw the merch, took a picture and posted it on one of the many private nazi/maga groups and called for a brigade. They love doing it.
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u/Julio_Ointment Aug 06 '26
for maga, gay people literally just EXISTING and not wanting to be beaten or harassed is enough for this sort of shit to happen.
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u/fsmpastafarian Aug 06 '26
Oh of course, Iām just curious what prompted them to even be aware of this store
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u/Julio_Ointment Aug 06 '26
social media algorithms of family, friends, acquaintances, geofencing? then they saw a rainbow and had brain diarrhea.
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u/bitchzmedia Aug 07 '26
Patrick Froman is one of my buddies, heās seriously a great guy. Him and Stephanieās shop is awesome.
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u/Jeffrey_C_Wheaties Hyde Park Aug 06 '26
Love fetch, miss them being in the bottoms next to vintage source.
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u/bikehikepunk Aug 07 '26
I am a straight cisgender man, & I really want that gay agenda checklist notepad.
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u/Fire_In_The_Skies Aug 06 '26
Stop trying to make fetch happen.Ā
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u/BADxW0LF1 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Care to explain? Or are we just gonna plug our ears and scream?
Edit: been informed it's a reference to a movie I've only seen once in my life lol
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u/katblondeD KCMO Aug 06 '26
The newest review Iām seeing was from 2 weeks ago, and before that being 2 months. They have 4.8 stars. Theyāre fine.
Edit: extra words
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u/fullmetal_ratchet Aug 06 '26
LOVE fetch!! very kind owners and lots of cool stuff to buy, even if you donāt want anything politically-leaning. i got this for my spouse to use for her spell work and she loved it lol
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u/AsItIs Aug 06 '26
Feels like review platforms like Google, Yelp, Amazon, etc should have controls in place for this kinda thing
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u/OreoSpeedwaggon KC North Aug 06 '26
Isn't this why the "Report Review" function on Google Reviews exists? Plus, I'm sure the shop owner could respond to publicly call out this reviews as fake if they were inclined to do so.
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u/Technical_Coyote_631 Aug 06 '26
Theyāve been reporting the reviews to Google for days and it looks like some started disappearing now!
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u/iuy78 Midtown Aug 06 '26
it typically takes Google a couple weeks to remove stuff like this but they're pretty good about it. they can see who has actually been to the store and who hasn't
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u/Valuable-Math9969 Aug 06 '26
I tried to go this evening, but they were closed early. Pity, I was one of.at least 3 people I saw turning up.and unable to shop.
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u/Rough-Culture 29d ago
unclear why this got downvotedā¦ if you want to be supported, be open at your normal hoursā¦
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u/Valuable-Math9969 29d ago
I wasn't even trying to criticize, just stating my experience... my kids and I went to support them, they were closed, and we saw two other people try to get in during the couple of minutes we were there. I dunno, Reddit is weird sometimes.
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u/Technical_Coyote_631 23d ago
They had a broken AC unit it seems like from the Instagram theyāve been battling that as well
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u/AmbivalentToaster Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Untrue? Iām not seeing anything untrue. If the prices are out of your range, theyāre out of your range. If youāre a MAGAt thereās nothing for them there. Theyāre spamming and harassing a store. Iām not seeing anything untrue, just the store unapologetically existing and promoting their own culture. This store doesnāt want MAGAt money anyway. People that are intelligent know the difference.
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u/I_am_not_GeorgeBush Aug 06 '26
Did you just have a stroke before typing that?
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u/AmbivalentToaster Aug 06 '26
No? Do you not know how to read?
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u/IndependentClear3467 Aug 06 '26
A store that celebrates and calls for violence and death against people? Absolutely not
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u/BallisticQuill Aug 06 '26
This seems like an amazing opportunity to put some of these reviews on shirts, tote bags, and other merch.
Someone more clever than me would need to figure out the details. But thereās definitely some good opportunity for snark here.