Comments on: Trip to the 99-Cent Store

By: James Kingston Jr

James Kingston Jr — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:06:51 +0000

The 99 cent store is amazing, great stock and variety!
On the next following black friday, I plan to camp out a week before black friday to get even better deals at 99 cent only store!
Shopper heaven may I say?

By: Elle

Elle — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:32:09 +0000

I’ve gotten turned on to the 99 cents only store about 6 years ago when I moved to Texas. I absolutely love this place! I pick up the Sunday paper every week for half the cost, I even picked up some Gain dishwashing deteregent yesterday for $1.59 in the 30 oz bottles!! Walgreens and CVS charges almost that for the small 10 oz bottles. I also, pick up dryer sheets, Downy liquid fabric softener, Lunchables, Liquid Egg Whites, Silk SoyMilk, Sara Lee Pies and 100% whole wheat bread, I’ve even picked up digiorno pizza (large size) on an occasion. Don’t get me wrong, there are somethings there that are not a great deal, but you have to be a savvy shopper.

By: Lila

Lila — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:03:30 +0000

I live in Las Vegas and our 99 cent stores do not carry anything expired or really anything anywhere near expiring. I buy only name brand items there and save a ton! I just bought about 10 vitamin water for 50 cents a piece and usually i pay 1.49 a piece for them! People have this pre-conceived notion that spending more for something means your getting better quality. That is a scam! Your just getting ripped off…and I happen to be a bit of a food snob as well cooking gourmet most of the time…

By: Sonja

Sonja — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:39:16 +0000

I have been shopping at dollar stores for years for all my pantry goods – canned veggies, fruits, pastas, beans, etc. It has saved me thousands of dollars over the years. I also buy all of my household supplies and toiletries there as well. We don’t have The 99cent Store here, but I use Dollar Tree and Dollar General every month. One other great thing is cards, batteries and candles. (we live in Louisiana so these are necessities for hurricane season

By: Gerry

Gerry — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:43:02 +0000

As #8 noted, the “99 cents” store now charges ONE DOLLAR for most items – others are multiples of ten cents. At least one store now charges 3 cents per plastic bag at checkout.

As for food: some of you are simply wrong. Brands sold in chain supermarkets can be found, along with the “what?” names. Always check the expiration date. Many food items are dumped at these stores precisely because the expiration dates are coming up.

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:42:42 +0000

I’d just like to say that if not for these stores. I would be in deep trouble. (I am unemployed and struggling.) The stores are now full of fresh vegatables in regular size package’s like Vons or anywhere else.
They carry fresh bread, milk,butter, yes real butter, eggs, yogurt, tons of snacks for lunches single servvings of fish, lunch meat. They don’t always have every single thing every single time but there alwys is a subsitute for the smart shopper. Almost everything you can imagine. Anyone who hasn’t checked them out by this time is a little foolish.

By: Amber

Amber — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:48:52 +0000

I love to buy my dishwashing soap (Ajax or Palmolive) at the 99 cents only store. It feels a whole lot better to buy a bottle of soap for a buck than it does to pay $3 for the same thing.

I typically just get housewares at my store. Sometimes I pick up some Swansons chicken broth and some star-shaped pasta if I want to make Chicken and Stars soup (the pasta is at least twenty-five cents less than at my grocery store).

Usually when I go the produce is either non-existant or very picked over, but that’s because I usually don’t get a chance to go until late in the afternoon.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:01:37 +0000

You made several good points in your article Amy. The experience I had with my first 99 cent store went the same way. They are definately an effective money saver despite how the quality of the items may appear to be lesser of that which you can find in the mainstream stores. Great article all around Amy, nice work.

By: Lyn Clarke

Lyn Clarke — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:09:39 +0000

I live in the midwest so we do not have 99

By: Texas Girl

Texas Girl — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:52:04 +0000

ICK ~ you can HAVE your .99 store food! I do shop there if I have to run in and buy a bottle of windex or something NON edible to avoid walking 10 miles through Super WalMart to get one thing and then stand in their long lines, but I have been duped into buying the cheap wine glasses which shattered in the dishwashwer on the first use, the 99 placemats that were *REALLY* cute and literally shredded in the washer the first time I washed them, and a can of corn I bought for a casserole that had chunks of something black and hard throughout….makes you wonder if they canned it right there in the fields of Mexico??

I will *NEVER* buy food or re-usable goods there. Cleaning products, yes. Plastic shoe storage boxes, yes. That’s about it.