99 Cents Only Stores

Years ago this location was my first ever shopping experience with dollar store shopping. It was great and I was amazed that prices could be so low. We are still a fan, but this store has it’s faults. In general, and despite a high volume of patrons, it offers many items unique to this location as well as the regular core inventory of dollar-​type stores. Therefore it rates 4 stars despite it’s faults.
On the Positive side:
— it has an awesome inventory & selection
— nothing is more than 99cents,
— it has it’s own parking lot,
— the inventory and variety of product is great (produce to household etc.),
— it’s hours are long and open 7 days a week,
— centralized location,
— easy access for everyone, (from public transportation, disabled people etc.),
On the other hand:
— it’s cashier lines are long and slow (seem to be understaffed),
— cashiers rarely go above and beyond to provide extra service,
— during business hours the place is not kept in an orderly manner (i.e. aisles and shelves
are sometimes in disarray),
— there is waaaaay too much stuff crowding the aisle’s which combined with lots of customers
make it difficult to navigate safely,
— carts are hard to find when busy (seem to be understaffed in this area),
— the store sometimes looks worn and may appear cluttered at times (but not dirty),
— it’s high volume of fellow patrons make for a claustrophobic shopping experience at time.
Like many quirky shopping places this dollar store fits right in to the area! Nowadays we have several other $store’s in between where I now live and Park n’ Shop in Concord. But we still patronize it and will continue to do so in the future. We usually go at off-​peak shopping times (like 9am or 2pm or mid evening etc.) so that we avoid the lunchtime crowd (2pm), the place is cleaner & stocked (9am) or when cashier lines may be not as long (mid-​evening) in order to get a better shopping experience.
Go check it out and have fun. Dollar stores offer a fun and unique shopping experience and the savings on items are great.

Chronically understaffed. Shopped here bi-​weekly on produce delivery days (Thursday, Saturday) for years. Deal with that, buy enough, and wait, and you’re good.
My regular purchases:
— Zucchini, grape/​Campari tomatoes, mushrooms, melons/​pineapple, asparagus. Always check the cold case. Sometimes you might find bacon or 32oz yogurt or Earthbound Farms organic lettuce (if you care)
— 64 oz (hilariously colored) hand soap
— 50 oz dish soap
— Dandruff Shampoo
— Shaving Cream
— Acne face wash (2 sizes. Formulas are the same. Buy the larger)
— Toothpaste, deodorant/​antiperspirant if large enough (they have small sizes made just for them)
— Snack foods
Look at what you are buying, not just expiration date, but size of packaging. This place has small margins but makes plenty of money. You can figure out why. For everyone who walks in like me and buys the lowest margin stuff, others fill their carts with stuff more expensive than regular grocery stores. Don’t be the latter.

My brother works at another branch of this fast growing Doller Store Chain. This Concord location is always will stocked, but their is never enough cashiers here. Or at least ones willing to do what they’re getting paid to do. So be prepared to wait in line for awhile sometimes. Getting rang up in this store seems more like an obligation as some cashiers will sit with their light’s off watching another cashier struggle. Thats a big no bueno in my book. And I always make note to say something when I see a situation like this.
Outside of this location is sometimes pretty unkempt. But then again it’s located in a strip mall in a busy area of Concord. Be prepared to see hobos and crackheads panhandling and arguing sometimes and even stealing from the store itself. I usually stop in here for work gloves and cheap snacks. But if you’re being frugal, it’s a nice place to pick up a few things. At the end of the day it’s a doller store, although some select things aren’t a doller.

I come here very often. The manager Danny, is super nice and very humble organizing merchandize. This place used to be really organized. Today I’ve learned that they have a new manager now. It’s like chaos this morning.

Terrible management! and customer service. The manager didnt bother to check back stock for my item. She even told me that none of the stores in the local area had what I was looking for which was a flat out lie. I guess thats what you get for coming to places like this.

Okay, here’s a tip for you single folks or folks on a budget — you can get brand name soap, toothpaste and hair products at the 99 cent store. It’s a great deal. Detergent and napkins too.
The problem is stores like this are so poorly run, it’s almost impossible to go into. They will have 2 lines of ten people who all have carts full of stuff and that’s when one of cashiers decides it’s time for a break. You will not get out of there in under 30 minutes. The manager see the lines are super long and refuses to add another cashier. It’s better for the extra cashiers to stock toilet paper when the lines are really long.
Sadly, there are a lot of poor folks who get all their groceries at stores like this and it’s kind of sad, there’s a lot of crap here but it’s understandable.
Plus at this particular store, you get a lot of ghetto folks who don’t understand simple common courtesy like moving their cart out of the way when it’s blocking the entire aisle, what the dividers are used for on the counter and moving their fat asses out of the way while they’re on the phone in the middle of the store having conversations about who was at the club last night.
On the plus side, if you’re looking for great food items like canned plankton, dried dill seaweed or clam chowder approved by the Mexican food council, this is the place to go.

Time to do a new review on this place and let you all know what I got lately. You can always find cheap food here but it is usually loaded with sodium and fat both of which I LOVE! But last week I found some Weight Watchers Smart Ones 2 Egg Whites & Cheese in one package for 99 cents!, WW 3 Cheese Omelet with a side of home style hash browns and a WW Steak Fajita meal, that came with 2 tortillas. A Lean Cuisine salad addition that all you have to do is add your lettuce or spinach. It had white chicken meat, dried cranberries, broccoli, red onions, yellow carrots and a package of raspberry cabernet vinaigrette dressing. It was quite tasty. The other meals needed a bit of hot sauce which I had to spice them up. I also found some Sunkist orange juice bars package of 6 for 99cents. I usually pay $ 4.99 for a box of 6 at Safeway or CVS, Banquet turkey patties (which I love more than the sausages, Progresso Lentil and Andouille soups, Marie Callender’s sweet potato muffin mix and Davis’s sunflower seeds Chile lime flavored. So if you live alone (or not) and run out of money before your next pay check it is possible to tobuy cheap groceries to last you! Whoopee!

aisles are severely crowded with boxes, boxes, boxes. every few feet pushing sales of items, creating. confusion overcrowding. moms trying to shop with children… .it feels like the store is pushing too promote reckless spending by making it extremely so very. uncomfortable
that you just
buy and get out of the crowded tightness misery… walmart uses same method in the canned foods and baking aisles… huge aisles in almost all other areas… this 99 cent store is already in a ghetto. type area but usually no problems at all… but now. this very very very crowded aisle situation. creates and promotes agitating customers which is beginning to show up as. problems between customers…
…its gone from a healthy spacious great choices including food !! choices to over crowded more carbohydrate… sugar…junk.food…when able we will try to send photos… carts cant move in a two lane opposite direction with s a f e t y… this is not a environmentally s a f e store to shop because. it appears… the greed of observed visiting over see guide advise managers. promoting. …make money… regardless of the. .toxic shopping experience… this store has been excellent… now its toxic… mentally, physically, emotionally, financially… contraindicative too the health and well being of its customers… yuk!!!
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always a good place to go to for deals
many times things are ½ to ¹⁄₃ the price of other places
and they have bars of chocolate from France for 99 cents !!
and its delicious !

Bigger than the Richmond, Hilltop location. Clean, stocked shelves on a Saturday, friendly employees and cashiers. Biggest challenge is parking on weekends. So many stores, for food and otherwise, the entire length of the strip mall/​shopping center.

On my last visit, I bought Tiki Barber’s autobiography for 99 cents. Why? Because it was just sitting there, that’s why!
Such is the case with most of my visits here. You go for one or two things and end up leaving with 10. It’s probably a good idea to steer clear of the produce area, some of which can be borderline, but stuff like hand/​dishwashing soap, glassware, pens/​pencils, calendars, spices, gallon water jugs, and single juices and sodas are among the normal everyday things that you can score deals on. Cheap chips and candy bars too. And if you are a Shasta drinker they do have several varieties, including Tiki Punch!
Don’t worry Dollar Tree, I’ll still drop by from time to time, but I give these guys a slight edge since I just go more often.

What’s great about this 99 cent store? BRANDS! Real brands of things you love and normally pay through the nose for (compartively speaking). All the Pepsi sodas, C&H Sugar, cans of Progresso soup, Lean Cuisines, Yoplait yogurts — all readily available here! This store is also gigantic so unless you’re popping in for 1 reliable item, allot a chunk of time to explore. You will be genuinely surprised at true bargains to be found. Yes, you will also find a cornucopia of crapola, all on the verge of expiration. Welcome to the dollar store — choose wisely. If you buy your produce here and then are surprised when your lettuce has turned to liquid in your fridge overnight, that’s on YOU. Dollar stores are ideal for basics, staples, and stocking up for the inevitable nuclear attacks. Ramen and cockroaches will survive.
What’s not so great about this 99 cent store? The parking situation, as everyone has said. The Park & Shop center is loaded with many great options for shopping, restaurants, etc., but the parking lot is designed for maybe half the number of shops, and probably half the Earth’s population. It is a clusterf*ck, you have been warned. Wear comfy shoes and park a little ways out to be saved from considerable annoyance.
You can’t save big bucks without being just a little inconvenienced, and you all know it. :)

We visited this 99 cent store tonight, the first time in a long time. The store is located in a plaza that has some of the most horrible parking you will ever find. It seems no one knows either where they’re going, or just how to drive in general. But once you park and get into the store, you’re golden.
The store is not the cleanest. A lot of warped dirty floors. But they do have a good selection of items including Pepsi products and lean cuisines. Even with a lot of people in the store it’s easy to move around. We had a grocery list that we were saving for Safeway but found more then half the products at this store. Some people might be weary about buying food at a 99 cent store but trust me the food is fine.
At checkout we had a cashier who was awesome. Her name is Cheris and she was making jokes, having fun and just sounded like she was really happy to be at work. This is honestly the first time I’ve seen a happy cashier at the 99 cent store, but it’s nice to see.

This store had always seemed smaller than to me than other 99 cent only stores but it works. The store is usually somewhat messy which is one of the reasons why I stopped going here. Another reason is there are a lot of ghetto people that come here and make the shopping experiences not so fun thanks to all the telling back and forth to each other. There is plenty of parking at this location but careful crossing the street, you have restarted drivers here. Oh and customer service — eh — don’t expect to find an employee re stocking or cleaning up messes. They will either be in front at the register or in the back office. Oh and this store can be cleaner.

I used to not care about this store. The last place I lived in the East Coast which is Virginia didn’t have a 99 Cents store so I wasn’t familiar with it. I thought it was just another dollar store but I was wrong. It has more to offer than a dollar store. I love the fruits and vegetables and a lot of times they’re organic.
I get kids Hanes t-​shirts here that my son and I used to design with paint when we want to do art at home. I get them in different colors. I used to get the same t-​shirt at Michael’s for $ 3.99 and here I pay 99.999 cents.
I hate the name as it’s kind of deceiving and clearly it’s a marketing ploy but still doesn’t take the fact that there’s bargain to be had here.
I don’t particularly like the cheap toys they sell from China but I just don’t check that part. When my son is with me I just tell him that he could look but we’re not buying. Boy, I have a great child :-). And I will never buy the bread no matter how cheap it is.
There’s all kinds of stuff here that are useful such as office supplies, books, tools, gift bags, cards, cleaning supplies, etc. They also sell a tissue holder that can be attached to your sun visor. What a genius invention! Now I don’t need a tissue box that flies everywhere in my car. They definitely need to get a patent on it. And if you don’t have it yet, you need it. And you’ll thank me later :-).
My co-​worker is a tennis player and she buys a pack of tennis balls here. She said that it’s the same as the ones she used to buy that cost a lot more.
It’s a hit or miss. Like other bargain places you have to carefully inspect the items you’re buying. And skip the restroom if you can help it. The front door has a solicitor or two asking for donations. This store can be messy with items and it’s busy. You can encounter rude customers as well, who act like they own the aisle by blocking the whole aisle while they’re talking. Plus rowdy and uncontrollable kids at times. And parking is an adventure. My son and I love to walk and run so we park past Joann’s Fabric and just walk to the store and back.

This place is ALWAYS packed no matter what time of the day. A little unorganized most of the time. I understand it is busy because it is a big store but really can there be a few more cash registers open? Most people come here on their lunch break to pick up a few things. I hate having to spend 45 of my lunch in this store because there is only one or two cash registers open. The cashiers are not very friendly either. Good things: great selection of food, household items, etc.

A superstore that cannot be missed, everything 99 cents, some less, the only expensive item I found is a big gallon of milk. I like how they carry popular name brand stuff more than other discount store carrying generic or funny names no one has ever heard of.
On my last visit, I found organic milk usually cost 3 times more at any grocery store, well known Hollywood movies on DVD, popular brand orange juice, household cleaning kitchen stuff and just too much to write down in the list. Parking is a problem, always full house.

If you need something and you’re not in any fuss it to be brand named, then 99 cent store is your store! I needed to get wrapping paper and tape. Everything I got was a dollar. They even had groceries and beanies! I mean if you have the time to really look through the aisles, there should be something there for you and for dirt cheap. I don’t mind!

I can’t believe I haven’t visited this store before now.
I left with three cute little vases (for our kitchen window), a new plug stopper (for our bathtub), three magnetic clips (for our fridge) and pink grapefruit tic tacs (for my mouth). All for just over $ 6.
The woman in front of me bought 35 plantains. Yes, 35. Although she did say she meant to buy 36 because they were three for $ 1. I think I would lost track after a while too.
During my visit, I also noticed a nice gift bag and wrapping selection, decent holiday section (Valentine’s Day) and Kern’s Nectar at two for $ 1. Next time we have a get together that warrants champagne cocktails, I know where I am going for the guava nectar.

This store is not clean!
I come here to buy Birthday cards. Or Valentine’s day cards. Or «Just thinking of you» cards. They have a decent selection.
I used to buy their candles, but found out they have lead in them. Sorry, even if it’s really cheap, I can’t have that burning inside my place, ya know?