First time at a Guitar Center store!

Got there at 9:50am but the doors weren't opened yet, but I did see a lot of people inside so I thought they had let some customers in early.  As it turns out, the extra people were actually the staff!

Put 30mins in my parking meter and got a warm greeting after walking thru the front door.
Every section had staff and they all offered to help.  Even the enclosed special room for big bodied acoutic guitars looked intimidating!  All of the cheap guitars (under $300) were outside of this special room.

Finally ended up where the guitar hardware was and their wall was just covered with a multitude of different brands of strings.  Since I knew I wanted Elixirs, I just asked for them. 

No nanoweb kind but had the polyweb type.  Supposed to lessen the squeaking of your calloused fingers as you slide then on the strings and they were a $1 more.  $14.98 + sales tax.

The store is kinda overwhelming to the novice first timer so I just exited to get away from all that eye candy!  Did check out the guitar straps and found a nice one for $19.98.  Those straps can cost plenty if you have special needs! or want it to look fancy.  So I'll look on eBAy once again to see how bad or good the quality of the $1.99 webbing guitar straps look via their photos.  Since I'm giving the guitar away, cheap straps should work out fine since it's for school kids anyway.