Shopping in Tempe Junction

The specialists at Photomart commit themselves to the art of photography and its many forms by supplying professional equipment and conducting informative workshops. Their extensive supply includes lighting kits, stands, and reflectors for studio shoots, along with camera bags, cases, and tripods for on-location sessions. Photographers in need of a short-term solution can rent high-quality camera accessories from Photomart—including Nikon and Canon cameras, lenses, backgrounds, and lighting equipment—by the day, weekend, or week. In addition to digital gear, the shop carries a selection of film, paper, and chemistry for those who are dedicated to traditional photography or allergic to pixels.

With the belief that the word consignment didn’t need to conjure images of dark and dingy stores stocked with stale fashions, sisters Ann and Jenny Siner opened the doors of their first upscale consignment boutique in 1991. An enthusiastic response led the sisters to expand with more locations and into different resale sectors, opening their first men’s-only store, Well Suited, in 2001.

After more than two decades in the business, the fashion-savvy sisters maintain their commitment to high-end, boutique-style consignment, earning them high praise from discerning shoppers, major press outlets such as Today, and long-pining hangers that finally get to slip on a worthy frock. Each store houses a constantly updated selection of designer brands such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci, and Nanette Lepore, priced anywhere from 65%–95% below retail. My Sister’s Closet’s store locations dot many of the most fashionable neighborhoods in Arizona, as well as California.

Long before the founding of the smoke shop that now bears his name, Owl Ear was a Native American tribal chief and calendar keeper, tasked with memorizing important stories in his tribe’s history. Located on the same land where the chief's tales were originally played out, Owl Ear Smoke Shop is a place where new stories are told as customers relax in the leather-appointed lounge and enjoy aromatic puffs of smoke from domestic and imported cigars. Scores of stogies are stocked in the shop's walk-in humidor, which protects their vast supply of cigars and cigarettes from the dry air and neighborhood water-balloon fights.

Violet and Susan, the owners of Revera, recognize scent as an integral way of calming nerves, invigorating spirits, and balancing a life full of stresses. With the goal of making the sense of smell a larger part of community consciousness, the pair decided to reintroduce the benefits of scent through the aromatic essential oils in their shop. They now craft artisanal bath, body, and fragrance products whose aromatherapeutic qualities aim to correct internal imbalances while surrounding clients in complex, stimulating scents.

Interspersed with jars of nutrient-filled sea salts and skin-soothing creams, the shop showcases herbal milk-bath concoctions blended with flowers, oat tops, and rose petals that work to soothe and soften skin, just like sleeping under a patchwork quilt of fabric softeners. The shop’s bottles of deep-purple glass also protect perfumes and lotions from harmful UV rays, lengthening the lifespan of products while serving as a reusable container for the shop’s refill services. Clients can opt to create their own signature scent in one of the shop’s custom perfume workshops, or sample a new aroma every month in the shop’s Menagerie program, in which clients get a monthly fragrance that blends scents of the season with grated calendar pieces.

At Más Wireless, clients can sign onto Cricket Wireless phone plans or stock up on sundry cell-phone peripherals. Cricket offers plans with amenities such as no roaming charges, unlimited data plans, and phones preloaded with the numbers of every player on the 1992 men's Cricket World Cup teams. A selection of phone cases, speakers, and chargers augment Más's lineup of smartphones and basic phones. In addition to supplying accessories, the staff repairs cracked phone screens and broken charging ports and speakers.

With more than 300 outlets, Plato's Closet outfits teens and 20-somethings all over North America with trendy recycled apparel. Clothes regularly come in bearing labels from top brands such as Aeropostale, Abercrombie & Fitch, Levi, Lucky Brand, Bebe, Forever 21, and Robin Starveling—Shakespeare's favorite tailor. Dresses, jeans, purses, shoes, and tops are current within a year of new trends, and customers can bring in their own threads for cash.