# SEPHORA, Milpitas: a cosmetics store in Milpitas (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/milpitas/sephora-milpitas-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 1 source. Updated 2026-10-20. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/milpitas/sephora-milpitas-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmvg0u7g00et4yeq4dyq3gylp%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmvg0u7g00et4yeq4dyq3gylp%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmvg0u7g00et4yeq4dyq3gylp%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmvg0u7g00et4yeq4dyq3gylp%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmvg0u7g00et4yeq4dyq3gylp%2F4.jpg) ## In short SEPHORA is a cosmetics store in Milpitas, CA. Its AI Score is 37 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Cosmetics store | | Address | 250 Great Mall Dr, Milpitas, CA 95035, USA | | Hours | Mon to Thu 10 AM to 8 PM · Fri to Sat 10 AM to 9 PM · Sun 11 AM to 7 PM | | Phone | (408) 457-6000 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 3.9 across 280 reviews on Google | | Known for | Sephora in Milpitas stands out for its vast selection of makeup, face masks, and lip glosses, making it a top choice for beauty enthusiasts. However, customer service experiences can vary significantly. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | October 19, 2026, 6:45 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 250 Great Mall Dr, Milpitas, CA 95035, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Retail chain with a selection of upmarket makeup, perfumes, beauty & skincare products. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM · Fri to Sat 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM · Sun 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | | Location info | Name | SEPHORA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (408) 457-6000 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | | Links | Website | https://www.sephora.com/happening/stores/the-great-mall | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 19, 2026 | ## Services and prices Services not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Known for Sephora in Milpitas stands out for its vast selection of makeup, face masks, and lip glosses, making it a top choice for beauty enthusiasts. However, customer service experiences can vary significantly. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting SEPHORA Address: 250 Great Mall Dr, Milpitas, CA 95035, USA. Phone: (408) 457-6000. Hours: Mon to Thu 10 AM to 8 PM · Fri to Sat 10 AM to 9 PM · Sun 11 AM to 7 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked October 19, 2026 at 6:45 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by SEPHORA on its Google Business Profile: "Retail chain with a selection of upmarket makeup, perfumes, beauty & skincare products." ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby Nearby places not read yet, back on Scan Day. ## Reputation 3.9 average across 280 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read October 19, 2026.) This location struggles with service consistency, impacting overall customer satisfaction despite having some knowledgeable staff. (AI guess, from 280 reviews.) ### What people like - Helpful associates for foundation matching - Good selection of beauty products - Some staff provide thoughtful service ### What people do not like - Long waits for assistance - Rude or dismissive employees - Disorganized store layout - Limited product availability - Poor customer service training ### Press No press story about SEPHORA found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from SEPHORA SEPHORA hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### quietest day to hit the shop? No answer yet ### is there a socials account worth following No answer yet ### Coffee near SEPHORA on Great Mall? No answer yet ### best cosmetics store in Milpitas, CA No answer yet ### the good stuff about SEPHORA, what is it? No answer yet ### going to SEPHORA on Saturday, what should I expect No answer yet ### SEPHORA, any chance to get in this week? No answer yet ### do they do Saturdays No answer yet ### first visit at SEPHORA, what do I need to bring? No answer yet ### what do shoppers most often buy there No answer yet ### opening hours at SEPHORA in Milpitas, what are they these days? No answer yet ### address for the shop, anyone have it? No answer yet ### bad experiences at SEPHORA, anyone? No answer yet ### discounts for coming back, is that a thing No answer yet ### picking between the two, is Luxury Beauty the safer bet? No answer yet ### are prices in Milpitas higher than everywhere else No answer yet ### Can I get in this week here? No answer yet ### does it matter who you see here No answer yet ### budget options in Milpitas, what is decent No answer yet ### where do I park at SEPHORA? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about SEPHORA We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about SEPHORA. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 19, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 37 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Milpitas cosmetics stores run 24 to 37. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. SEPHORA scores 37, above the Milpitas average of 30. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | SEPHORA | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 100 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 2 of 2 answers that recommended anyone. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 79 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 70 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 35 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 75 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a cosmetics store When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a cosmetics store in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including SEPHORA if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to SEPHORA | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | SEPHORA | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.sephora.com/happening/stores/the-great-mall | Subject of this page | | Milpitas, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City SEPHORA is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the cosmetics stores in Milpitas, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best cosmetics stores in Milpitas: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/milpitas/cosmetics-store - Best businesses in Milpitas: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/milpitas ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own SEPHORA. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJnYeIDSXPj4ARxGwmOqVeKfY (accessed Oct 19, 2026)