The Daily Planet

My one order of bagel took 20 minutes while the two baristas helped 5 coffee orders that were given after my order. Ridiculous. Nice setting and comfy couches. Oh and the plate with the bagel was slammed in front of me. Thanks.

If I could give this place zero stars I absolutely would. I was in here shopping for gifts for Christmas when I found a book about birthdays and the meaning behind them. While reading about my birthday, the shop owner named Anna approaches me and tells me that I can’t hang around in the store reading the books, especially while there are other customers shopping. Mind you I’m standing over a table looking at the book, not sitting on the floor making myself at home. I was offended. The other customers were rummaging through cards along the wall, but I was approached and asked to leave all because I was reading an excerpt from a book that she was selling? How does she except to sell anything if she doesn’t give customers the time to appreciate the products? I found some great things I wanted to buy but the owner was completely rude and I would never ever shop at a place that rushes me out and doesn’t make new customers feel welcome. DO NOT SHOP HERE.

This place is great! The first time I stopped in I was on my way to a sacrifice. I was in charge of the incense, and goats blood. And since I have a good goats blood guy in Culver City I decided to get the incense here. I also needed a good curse book. I explained to the guy that worked there that I wanted to put a few curses on some people that I know. Not a heavy die in an airplane crash curse. More like a wake up to a flat tire nuisance curse. The worker was very helpful. I will be back.

Great go to for gifts. Well selected book options for all ages-​from my friends newborn to my grandparents. Yay. And great magazines. And today I bought a scent for $ 20. And while I liked the New Baby scent I ended up going with Sunshine. And a glass ladybug. ($ 2) because sometimes you just need one of those in your pocket.
It’s true about the service. A course in saying hello and thank you and smiling might not be a bad thing. Didn’t deter from the good times that I’ve had there but in this age of Amazon I really want small biz to thrive. And smiles help that.

Rude and unfriendly clerk/​owner (female with long brown hair). I was to going to
make a purchase but the employee looked at me with disdain. If this person hates customers so much then why is she in retail? Bad attitude and over priced merchandise equals one star.

This review is purely based on customer service, errr lack of it. I am not sure who’s the owner, but the owner/​one of the females? that works there should work on her manners. After asking a simple question her answer to me was super rude and quite disrespectful. I was going to purchase a magazine but I wasn’t about to support someone who thought they were better than me.

This review is solely based off of the customer service that came from this business.
Upon arrival I was really excited to come to this place because I had a friend with me who was ranting about how awesome this spot was. So we decided to swing by on the way home so that I could finally see what the store had to offer. The three of us walked in, with one immediately making a purchase. This being my first time in the store I was really excited to look around. The place had a really small yet unique environment to it. As I’m picking out a few candles, my other friend purchases a few of the crystals at the counter. As I walk to the register to purchase my candles, my friend says «Check out their crystals. This is where I come to buy all of mine.» Me being excited and a first time NEW customer I walk over to consider adding to my purchase. As I begin to look at the crystals the associate while rushing to ring me up said, «The owner does not like people just hanging around the store». Mind you that I was on my way out already, my two friends had already finished purchases, none of us had the desire to just «hang out» and I was considering to add to my purchase. I found it very rude, disrespectful, and unprofessional to rush ANY potential, let alone a happy paying customer out of your store for «hanging out to long». I don’t think selecting items to purchase is «hanging out». Not to mention there was another group of people that was in the store much longer then me and my two other friends.
Overall, I was very displeased with the service given which led to me leaving the store without purchasing my items. As long as the service remains the same we probably won’t be back anytime soon.

I adore this little shop. It is the perfect place to find last minute gifts, bath salts, any magazine you can think of or just a pack of incense. It is one of my favorite places in LA, and has been for nearly 20 years.

Great shop! Amazing selection of books and magazines. The clerk was very friendly. The cards are great. I won’t be buying my cards anymore at Rite Aid.

The Daily Planet is open until midnight so it’s the perfect place to go if you are in need of a last minute gift or want to find something tangible to piqué your interests. Their book selection is small but great. The person working while I stopped by was very kind and helpful. It’s a nice corner bookstore/​newsstand/​gift shop.

Good location, has plenty of magazines, cards, gifts and books.
The only downside is that they don’t greet people when they walk in. Maybe it’s an L.A. thing? Card that I purchased was cute, but $ 6. I was only acknowledged when I purchased the card. So, perhaps working on customer service would support! :-)

Cute mid-​sized store located in Franklin Village. Nice selection of magazines, books and other unique items. Worth a stop in.

The only books this place has are artsy/​occult/​childrens books.

This is the exact type of little shop people love to stumble across. Tons of cool little gifts and keepsake items, novelties, and a magazine rack with a great selection
(I would give it 5 stars but the gross café and pub regulars who stand in front all day and smoke make it hard).

I went in to this little gift shop/​magazine place and thought it was pretty nice. I was shocked to find the low brow/​pornographicish material here. They have a lot of normal magazines and periodicals here, but they also have the raunchy stuff here mixed in. I don’t know, but I usually see the «adult» signs and stay away from those type of stores. Here I walked in and was disgusted to come across that type of stuff.

I adore this shop. I can easily lose all track of time in this tiny space browsing through their books, toys, cards, and novelties. I actually bought a really cool card here and had it framed. It hangs in my bathroom and many friends have asked me about it because its so cool and different. This is the perfect place to come and get a unique card or gift. Think Valentine’s Day or a just because for you! It’s a news stand too, so you can get your morning paper on your way to eat at Birds :) Just a suggestion ;)

Yes, it’s a quintessential Hollywood hipster store, but I love it. I love it because it’s tidy, the staff is nice, and the offerings vary. Generally the offerings are about the same as you would find at Urban Outfitter’s – but the quality is better and more cerebral:
Salvador Dali finger puppet? Check.
Zipper earrings? Check.
Coffee table books you actually want to read? Check.
(It’s a great place to kill time while waiting for UCB, too.)

The book selection of classic books with fancy interesting amazing covers make this place 5 stars worthy. It’s a gift shop and tons of knick knacks that you want to buy! From coffee table books (Chanel, Andy Warhol) to journals to candles to scarfs to classic kids books to cupcake fans… it’s a great store! It kind of reminds me of Handmade
from Sherman Oaks, but it’s smaller and have wonderful books. I seriously wanted to buy like 4 books there…

This place is right around the corner from my apartment and is a cute little magazine stand-​meets novelty stationary-​knick knack-​bookstore. While they don’t have a huge book selection at all, they do have all the periodicals one would really need and a nifty collection of literary and art quarterlies and zines. While it’s not my favorite news stand in L. A, Daily Planet has some neat gift ideas, journals, calendars, and other crap to keep you occupied while waiting for a show at UCB or tying to grab a last minute something something for a birthday party. I particularly like their cards and they carry a few of the Moleskin journals, too.
3.5 Stars rounded up to 4 stars because I’m a Superman fan.

Really good place to pick up gifts… even though I always find about 10 things I’d really like to buy myself.