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Awards, Accolades, &
Services
 Opened
in 1990, Great Beginnings is a locally owned and operated business.
Located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, about 20 miles north of Washington, DC,
and Northern Virginia, we have grown to over 80,000 plus square feet and are now
regarded as the nation's largest baby and children's store. Not
only do we have the largest facility nationwide, but our store is organized
to maximize your shopping experience, and give you every opportunity to
design the best home for your children. This store is truly the most
unique shopping experience in the United States.
Great Beginnings is proud to offer the
following services:
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- Large spacious children's
furniture showroom with over
125 cribs on display in fully decorated rooms, plus 45+
professionally decorated toddler and teen room vignettes to
make it easier for you to imagine the possibilities.
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Great
Beginnings has one of the largest selections of baby gear anywhere.
With over
200 strollers on display and over 100 baby and children's carseats -
you will find what your baby needs at Great Beginnings.
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- State of the art online
Baby Gift
Registry system with a dedicated staff to assist you.
Your family and friends can purchase baby registry gifts three
ways: In our store, on the phone using our toll free number, and
online.
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- Private mothers' nursing room with
baby changing stations.
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- Car seat inspection and
installations by certified car seat technicians.
Appointments 240-777-2223 - or
contact us.
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- Bored Husbands' Lounge with satellite TV and
large, comfortable leather sofas (great time to rest, use the
restroom, or catch some of the game while mom selects the baby bedding
or fabrics!)
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- Personal shopper "Gift Registry" tours by
appointment. Our
Registry Tours will help acquaint you with what baby products are
right for your registry. Tours can take between 30 minutes to 3
hours depending on how in-depth you want the information. See a sample baby
gift registry
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- A superior "Online Store" for your
shopping convenience.
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- Wheel chairs available for
in-store use.
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- Professional Artists on staff for
unique personalized gifts.
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- Loaner glider rocker program - If your
baby arrives before your glider, Great Beginnings is please to
offer a loaner glider to make things a little easier. Great for
adoptions and last minute decisions.
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- Citibank
consumer financing available.
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- Furniture delivery and setup
available. After Birth Deliveries - Great Beginnings
will hold your baby or children's furniture until you are ready
for it. Whether you are superstitious, adopting, moving, or just
painting the room, we will be happy to hold the delivery until you
are ready. Our delivery fee includes delivery, furniture setup and
packaging removal. Great Beginnings does not charge extra
for furniture set-up. Relax and let us do the hard work.
Great Beginnings has been widely recognized for
it's excellence in the baby to teen furniture and accessories industry.
►Lila
Guide - 5-star rating - The Lila Guides
Each year they collect thousands of surveys from
parents in cities across the country and publish the survey results in a
little pocket-sized guide. Great Beginnings was
a "Lila Pick" by Washington DC Area
Parents for 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. Great Beginnings was awarded the top
ranking, a 5-star rating and quoted as "...a delightful,
well-organized and easy to navigate store...everything you need for your
baby under one roof...friendly, knowledgeable staff will help you choose the
stroller that's right for you...wide selection of cribs, bedding and
dressers...they often beat other stores' prices...they are willing to hold
the items you purchased until after the baby comes...staff was extremely
accommodating - they even delivered and set up a loaner crib until ours
arrived..."
►Baby
Bargains Book - "Great Beginnings
has an extensive web site where you can buy furniture, bedding, car
seats, strollers, and more. Their prices are comparable to many
on-line sites we checked, and their staff is excellent and knowledgeable."
►Baby
Bargains Book - Great Beginnings was
recently named one of the top 21 baby stores in the USA and the top baby
store in Maryland, Virginia & DC.
►Beltway
Baby Book - "Great Beginnings is a serious devotee of the
quick-stop, A-to-Z baby shopping. This colossal store is about a mile from
Lakeforest Mall...plan to spend a considerable amount of time. It takes a
while to go through every crib, stroller, and rocking chair known to
humankind. Great Beginnings offers helpful service, good value and serious
middle-of-the-road and upper end options. Their staff is the best."
►Families
Magazine - Great Beginnings
was chosen to the Best of DC guide.
►Partnership
Award - Presented to Great Beginnings by Montgomery County
Executive Douglas M. Duncan for "initiating and developing a children's
car seat inspection program." Great Beginnings dedicates space and
manpower resources to help facilitate trained safety specialists who will
check car seats for proper installation, age/size appropriateness and to
determine if the seats have been damaged or recalled. New data from the
National SAFE KIDS Campaign showed that 74.6% of seats checked in
Montgomery County from February 2001 to March 2002 were used incorrectly.
►The Washingtonian Magazine
- "Great Beginnings has a great
selection of well-priced baby and kid furniture from brands like Pali,
Sorelle, and Dutailier along with accessories like mirrors, stepstools,
and lamps, most in simple styles. Despite the huge array of merchandise,
there’s a lot of space. The service is
excellent."
►The Nest -
"a delightful, well-organized and easy to navigate store...
everything you need for your baby under one roof... friendly,
knowledgeable staff will help you choose the stroller that's right for
you... wide selection of cribs, bedding and dressers... they often beat
other stores' prices... they are willing to hold the items you purchased
until after the baby comes... staff was extremely accommodating - they
even delivered and set up a loaner crib until ours arrived"
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The
extensive stroller area is manned by dedicated employees who can walk
customers through the more than 200 makes and models on the floor.
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By Jane
Kitchen
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — This 80,000-square-foot independent superstore has
been operating in the Washington D.C. metro area for 15 years with a
single store. Read more......
►Earnshaw's Small World Magazine-
October 2007 Edition Pages 40 & 41
“SMALL WORLD, BIG IDEA – CLASS ACT”
“As the
Nordstrom of the baby industry, Great Beginnings of Gaithersburg, MD
offers everything for new arrivals, from strollers and high chairs to
bedding. Though measuring an impressive 80,000 square feet, the mammoth
store is still a mom-and-pop shop at heart, according to general manager
Brian Green. That close knit feeling is due in large part to the services
it offers, a list that includes classes and demonstrations.
Read more....
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