Buddy’s Small Lots

They are moving this store. Everything is 60 percent off the lowest marked price.
Got some cheap sneakers, a yoga book, skin balm and coffee there today Total was 12.71. Some muscle milk and a marc ecko bag last week. Probably ³⁄₃₁ will be their last day. They were down to about half a store of floor space today. Some things prices are not marked but the help is polite enough.

I don’t even know why I came in here yesterday but I’m glad I did. I found an 8 ounce box of squid ink fettuccine. The price was bit high for only 8 ounces of pasta but I figured the squid ink was worth it.

Buddy’s is the cheapest place in the area to purchase items for your home; toilet paper, paper towels, bottled water & snacks. They have great prices.
They also have about 20 aisles of random things you didn’t think you needed until you saw it — and saw that the price was great.
The prices are akin to having a Target or a Wal Mart in the middle of the West Village. Their markups are way cheaper than CVS /​Duane Reade. Good place to go for essentials.
I’d recommend a walk through.

Huge discount store and great selection… i can spend hours here just window browsing. but you better believe i dont go home empty handed. The best discount store in chelsea/​village area for sure.

Great deals — a little out of place and rundown for the neighborhood but it really has values that can’t be matched! Can’t be an every day store given the uneven selection but we visit here over DR and CVS very often now.

I came about this store when I was around the West Village.
I was surprised that a discount store was here.
This store will definitely have alot of students coming in because they have gum, candy and goodies.
No AC, but this store is good if you know what you want from here.

Brand New Mega Discount Outlet.
Competitive prices for every day household items.
Just bought Cascade dishwasher soap huge box for only 3 bucks!

Oh a dream come true what a nice store and easy to get to Ill come and Ill come again with some friends, very clean and neat and the people are very nice. It has every thing just for my pocket book too. I hope it stays too.

This establishment opened up in what used to be the old Food Emporium a/​k/​a the A&P, which had served the Village in increasingly mediocre and overpriced fashion for many years. In its place came a party store for a few months and now this «Buddy’s Small Lots,» which I understand is also destined to move on in a few months.
Buddy’s is an example of the «one-​dollar store» concept, which makes it unique for this upscale and horribly gentrified part of the Village. Stores like this used to populate 14^th Street but have largely closed there. For the most part, this is the kind of store you find mainly in downscale small towns like Monticello, NY, and in fact, the merchandise is really more suited to the exurbs.
There are, for instance, emergency lanterns of little use in the city but very useful out in the country, where there are periodic blackouts. There are inexpensive fold-​away garden hoses most people in this neighborhood would not require. Ditto for the very nice selection of metal watering cans.
That’s the problem with this place — the selection of merchandise is pretty uneven. If you need or want a lantern of unknown quality/​longevitiy, for instance, this is for you. They had some gum too. The price seemed OK but I can’t vouch for it.
But «amazing deals» and «awesome» stuff as some of my fellow Unilocalers say? No way.
Their appliances are not always bargains. They have a window fan on sale for $ 35. I bought it and found out that 1) It didn’t work very well and 2) I could get a better one online for ten bucks less. But I was able to return it, no problem.
If you have literally nothing else to do, if it’s a choice between browsing here or staring at the ceiling for an hour, by all means stop by this store. Prepare to be disappointed. Unless you are in the market for an emergency generator of unknown quality that may or may not be a good deal.

This place just opened and it’s awesome! Tons of random stuff for the house, super convenient and much welcome in the expensive village!

Amazing deals especially for New York City were everything is so inexpensive
I love this place