Dollarama

Very nice dollar store.
+ Large = Great selection of items (although we stopped in looking for Canada souvenirs, which they did not have. Seems that these are only found in Chinatown. Bummer.)
+ Bright, clean and organized (which is not always the case in other dollar stores).
+ Not crowded.
+ Lots of parking.

Wow! I did not hate this store. I know my friends on Cali. seem to find things at dollar stores, but out in the flatlands, and I looked this up on Unilocal) we have another «dollar store» brand and I don’t care for it. I have been a couple of times. Once I got a migraine from the overwhelming plastic smell. The other couple times I went I didn’t see anything I had to have and left empty handed. I decided dollar stores were just not for me. I probably haven’t been to one in five years. I almost didn’t even bother going into this store. It was more a, «If that’s the pharmacy (massive London Drugs in same strip mall), I wonder what the dollar store is like inside?» sort of stop.
Anyway, it was nicer than I’d seen other chain out east, and things DID NOT look… well, so much like flea market leftovers, to be totally honest. It was brightly lit and clean, and a very large store.
The downside was beyond my control– a screaming toddler in the school supply aisle (and I do mean screaming). Whether stayed or not was the only thing that was my only decision, so I hoofed it out of there before I got another «dollar store» migraine from the noise.
I would definitely go back and look around another time. I was thinking of buying some pens before it all went bad.