Everything went well and the store is clean and tidy. There's free parking, so I think it's OK to…read moregive it 4 stars.
All Sherwin-Williams stores seem to be about the same. I've been to the store in Mid-City/La Cienega, in Torrance and this location and this San Pedro location is the smallest of the 3, It shares a parking lot in the rear with its neighbors, Waba Grill and Little Caesars, and some apartments.
When I visited, there was only one employee, but there happened to be 4 or 5 customers all needing a bit more than just ringing items off the shelves, so there was a bit of a wait.
The employee took care of each customer in a professional manner but my impatience made it feel like the old guy ahead of me in the queue was asking questions for all eternity and the employee was giving equally lengthy and foolproof answers, replete with footnotes and references. Good thing I wasn't really in a hurry, only in my mind I want to be in 10 places at once, but I did eye that unisex restroom in the back behind the area where they mix paints. I was calculating whether I should take advantage of a most-likely clean restroom here, or take a gamble when nature calls. At last, relief comes when a second employee clocks in.
I've never noticed this but because I was trying to find things to look at while waiting around and not making eye contact with other customers, I learned that you can get wallpaper from Sherwin-Williams. There were samples of wallpaper in giant binders, organized by color families and pattern styles, and there were shelves of them.
This store (maybe all stores do and i've just never noticed) also has a locked glass display with the most expensive thing selling for over $700. Unfortunately, the price tag associated with this item made no impression in my mind while I was desperately fighting boredom. My new year's resolution was to minimize the time my old astigmatic eyeballs spends on the phone screen scrolling through garbage content. I failed miserably. That hand of mine reached to the back pocket, thumb typed in that passcode so fast that I didn't realize what it did until it was too late. I
I think it had to have been like 30+ minutes later when I finally got my 2 gallons of primer and paint, over $120. Damn.
Not their fault but it was the most time I ever spent at a paint store, especially when I already have the color ready to go and everything. If I have to get paint in this area, I wouldn't mind coming here again