{"id":31358,"date":"2022-02-21T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T00:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=31358"},"modified":"2022-02-21T16:41:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T00:41:36","slug":"omega-mart-is-the-best-non-gambling-thing-to-do-in-the-history-of-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/omega-mart-is-the-best-non-gambling-thing-to-do-in-the-history-of-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Omega Mart is the Best Non-Gambling Thing to Do in the History of Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Omega Mart at Area 15 is celebrating its one year anniversary in Las Vegas and we’ve yet to see anyone able to adequately explain what it is. Including us.<\/p>\n

The attraction has welcomed a remarkable one million guests during its first year of operation, and if that number doesn’t include you, you’re missing out.<\/p>\n

Omega Mart is simply the most original, brain-bending, offbeat, borderline disturbing, reality-warping way to open your eyes and mind in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

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This is Omega Mart. It’s also the tip of a weird-ass iceberg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Omega Mart opened on Feb. 18, 2021.<\/p>\n

Two questions leap to mind: 1) If we love it so much, why haven’t we written about it before now? 2) What is Omega Mart?<\/p>\n

Well, honestly, we aren’t that great a writer and we honestly didn’t have words to adequately rave about Omega Mart. We started to write about it innumerable times, but our feeble attempts at describing it failed to explain its sheer awesomeness.<\/p>\n

Sort of because our vocabulary is limited to words like “awesomeness.”<\/p>\n

Then again, we’ve never really seen Omega Mart explain what it is, either.<\/p>\n

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Once inside Omega Mart, it takes approximately 1.3 seconds to realize this isn’t your typical grocery store. Also, it’s not really about the grocery store.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ll take a stab at it.<\/p>\n

Omega Mart is part Gary Larson cartoon, part murder mystery, part sci-fi adventure, part Louvre on edibles.<\/p>\n

Omega Mart shares DNA with “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” but mainly the imaginative and dark parts.<\/p>\n

Omega Mart is like if Disneyland had a love child with Tim Burton.<\/p>\n

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Everyone needs a six month supply of schadenfreude!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Maybe we can just start with some facts: Omega Mart is the result of a collaboration between 325 artists and took three years to conceptualize and built.<\/p>\n

Omega Mart comes from a Santa Fe-based arts and entertainment company, a weirdo collective called Meow Wolf.<\/p>\n

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Omega Mart abounds with gasping and laughing, in perfect harmony.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are two main elements to Omega Mart: The grocery store and everything else.<\/p>\n

The grocery store isn’t a grocery store, obviously. It’s a trap. That’s because it contains thousands of hilarious, strange and twisted products.<\/p>\n

Nothing in the Omega Mart store is what it seems.<\/p>\n

Our top tip for visiting Omega Mart is to ask an employee for a “boop” card, also known as an “Omega Access Card.”<\/p>\n

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You could do Omega Mart without booping, but that would be like going to a movie without popcorning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s not required, but the card is your passport to more layers of the experience.<\/p>\n

Don’t be in a rush to get through the grocery store. Revel in the sheer genius of the products, a throwback to the product spoofs in “Mad” magazine.<\/p>\n

Yes, people used to read magazines.<\/p>\n

Here’s a fun employee training video that gives a taste of the alternate reality that is Omega Mart.<\/p>\n

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