Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5TH

One of the few stores with a lot of quality merchandise for reasonable prices at the Commons. Got nice shoes and a dress for a very wallet friendly around $ 150.

I’m behind time with this review…
Love this location since it’s so close to home. [This review Is intended for the White Plains location]. (Off 5^th replaced Loehmann’s more than a year ago). Clothing and other items are laid out finely.
Customer service (to me) is excellent. I never had to hunt down a sales rep for my size 10 shoes, because they’re so visible. The layout is generous, yet walking around the clothing racks can be a tad tight. With that being said, Off 5^th has a great selection of women clothing –men’s selection seems limited for the most part. Nonetheless, I can rack up (no pun intended) here for my girly wardrobe needs

This is an odd store. All their outlets seem to be a little oddly organized. This one even more so. Maybe its the space they have, or the way they have configured it, I don’t know. But I find it overwhelming to visit here. Having said that, you may find a great deal here if you can wade through it all.
2 stars, most chains get a 3 from me, but this one really isn’t «A-​OK».
1912

NO, Saks. Just no.
Saks off 5^th was a necessary stop for me & my guy whenever we shopped at Woodbury. Until we showed up on our last excursion to find the place completely rearranged to resemble a chaotic K-​Mart. There were no more sections to speak of — just tight rows of racks crammed with clothes in no obvious order.
Look around Woodbury and you’ll see that its success lies in its stores’ tasteful ambiance. Yes, you’re getting a deal, but you’re also having a good time perusing.
Not at the newly envisioned Saks — unless a K-​Mart on Boxing Day is your idea of a positive shopping experience.

I got an amazing deal on some J Brand Jeans but the customer service here is horrible! The women at check out was just plain nasty. Much better service next door at Last Call Neiman Marcus stop there first and don’t even bother with this one.

I used to really enjoy going to Saks Off Fifth at Woodbury Commons. Now it feels like TJ Maxx or Walmart. The latest ‘renovation’ has left so much to be desired. The store is in utter chaos and looks just awful. Not only is it completely disorganized, but shopping here leaves you feeling grimy and you just want to go home to take a bath. Not to mention the employees who are completely lackluster and have zero personality. They seem to have hired an entire new crew who doesn’t care to service you and will leave customers waiting in their TJ Maxx line for quite a while before bothering to open a new register. I’ve always been a devoted Saks fan, of both the flagship in the city and the outlet at Woodbury, but am now thinking of moving my loyalty elsewhere. After all, I heard Neiman Marcus is coming to Manhattan soon.

So Saks 5^th Ave continues it’s aggressive and inevitable march into the proverbial crapper with this abysmal excuse for a retail store. It used to have a slight resemblance to its much more upscale cousin but that was demolished with the recent «renovation.» I looked up the word «renovation» and discovered that it meant to reinvigorate; refresh; revive. Hmmmm. What they did was essentially gut the store’s infrastructure and replace it with a bunch of racks haphazardly and seemingly randomly arranged, making it more akin to a Marshall’s or TJ Maxx. It’s like a big warehouse without the organization.
Now, I’m sure that somewhere in the plethora of clothing there are things that are worthwhile to buy. Hell, there may even be a bargain or an incredible bargain buried somewhere. The problem is that you need to wade through so much crap, very little of which has actually seen the inside of a real Saks 5^th Ave, to find it. And by that time you’re either too frustrated or exhausted to be able to recognize it.
This store is a mess. It amazes me that Saks would dilute their name to the point that they would brand such an abomination. Of the upscale retailers who lend their names to their bastard step children, Off 5^th is by far the worst. Nordstrom Rack, Bloomingdales and Last Call Neiman Marcus. while a far cry from their top shelf namesakes, at least aren’t shitholes. Who thought this was a good idea? Sadly, I think that Saks will be going the way of I. Magnin and Bergdorf Goodman ending up with either a single store or going out of business completely. You can’t continue to cheapen your brand and not expect a backlash from your core customer base. They put an Off 5^th a mile or so away from their Hackensack, NJ store and guess which one survived? Really kind of sad.

No. Just don’t. Hands down the most unorganized store I have ever entered in my entire life, I am not even exaggerating here. They have this really nice woman standing at the entrance greeting customers, so you immediately get the impression like this shopping experience is going to be a good one. THEN, you walk in and you are hit with this MESS of a store, clothes, bags, shoes, scarves, jewelry everywhere. I almost feel like that old TV show, supermarket sweep just occurred in this store, where four contestants had a certain time limit to fly through the store and find certain items, completely neglecting the cleanliness and orderliness of the store, because in the end if they checked off all of the items on their list they would win mad money. Well, turns out, there was no television show that took place here, it is just naturally a disaster and I wanted no part of it. You couldn’t shop for anything specific if you wanted to. The jewelry was behind a counter; could you walk behind the counter? Was it off limits? It looked like the kind of counter where you needed to wait for someone to assist you… I was lost. In front of the jewelry counter were watches, half of the watches torn out of their cases and were missing, ones that were in their cases were tossed about without any level of organization. The hats and scarves were on the floor, purses which were supposed to be organized by designer were not in the right spots and WICKEDLY expensive. I took one look at the clothing section and was horrified I just had to walk out. Ditch the greeter, get someone to organize your store, IMO.

This store is a disaster. It looks like a bomb went off last year and they still haven’t gotten around to cleaning up the mess.
Clothes are haphazardly strewn everywhere and it is nearly impossible to locate a particular designer. Even better, they had an upscale area with premium designers but it was roped off and marked ‘closed’.

The organization of the store may make you crazy, and any time more than an hour after opening, the masses will have picked the shelves over so much it begins to look like a tornado hit. The selection and prices are good if you don’t mind older fashions from last season. The staff is what can only be described as zombie robots. I swear I had to wake one up to check me out.

always good deals here, at least for the men’s, and lots of it. Even some major designer labels like Brioni, albeit still set you back couple of thou still.
In the back, men’s luggage, shoes, belts… and a good seating area too and here’s the extra star: free wifi.

Some Woodbury Common stores are all about customer service and others are hit or miss. Saks Fifth Off 5^th is one of those stores. Though the selection of items is ok, the check out lines can be long and it takes forever. We also had an experience here that will make me think twice about coming back again.
We’re on the line with three cashiers taking customers and we’re next to check out. What do you know… when one cashier is done with her customer, she walks away. When the next cashier is done with his customer, he also walks away. So one cashier is left with a problem customer. As the clock ticked on, my friend went to get a manager, who was very apologetic and checked us out herself, but the damage had already been done.
Unfortunately, this happens a lot to us ‘non-​blondes’ at Woodbury Common stores (that was the 3^rd time that day at other stores that cashiers just walked away when it was time to check us out). I’d like to think that it’s just a coincidence, but it’s a fairly common occurrence there. It’s not all about the prices when it comes down to it… there’s a lot to be said for treating folks like they aren’t invisible. Thankfully, the internet can’t see what we look like so I’d rather shop there than be subjected to this kind of treatment again.

For many topics and discussions, there have been timeless arguments as to whether or not size is important.
It’s quite controversial for some things, but for outlet stores there is a consensus:
BIGGER IS BETTER.
And this Saks outlet is the biggest one I’ve been to in my life.
There are four things that determine whether or not you’ll get high quality luxury items at an outlet store.
1) The name — if you enter a luxury outlet store you’ll find luxury goods
2) Size — the larger the store, the greater the chances of finding something you want.
3) Location — even if it’s the same outlet, the location will determine the quality of the goods in the store. If the store is located in the state of NY vs. say Podonk, Nebraska, the chances are you’ll find the better and higher end luxury goods.
4) Luck — you gotta get damn lucky b/​c you have to find something that matches your taste, at the right price, and in the right size.
Although you can’t control for luck, this off 5^th saks will maximize your chances of striking gold. Why?
It’s HUGE (size of an average department store) & is located in the most fashionable state in the US.
They carry just about every selection imaginable for men and women. Armani, Kiton, Dolce and Gabbana, Ted Baker, Versace, Jean Paul Gaultier, Max Mara, Brunello Cucinelli. It’s like a Madison Avenue jumbled into one store.
If I were to choose one place in Woodbury to go to this place would be it. It’s significantly cheaper than the rest of the outlet stores b/​c of their ongoing promotions, and they carry so many items and brands that you are bound to find something of interest.
Thumbs up to the best Off-​5^th in America!

Kind of a jumble of great deals and not-​so-​wel-​constructed clothing, if you can dig through the stuff you don’t want, you’re bound to find a gem.
We went to here to get a suit — Jack helped us out and was great. My fiancé tried on multiple suit jackets and we ended up narrowing the best down to a specific brand/​style/​size. It was way easier than I thought it would be. We ended up buying two suits — even if they were Hugo Boss, they had been marked down 50% from their original price, and then were on sale for another 40% off. For serious.

This review is strictly for the Men’s selection which was meager at best. If you have a need for designer jeans then you will find Joe’s Jeans, Diesel, Levis, and Seven for All Mankind. Some of the suits tend towards the older crowd (i.e. ill fitting and boring patterns).