Dollarama

This store seems like its always super busy. A but bigger than the Dollorams im used to up at Dupont and Lansdowne. Standard selection of stuff but they need to bring back Magic Cards for me. Staples like Candy, cleaning products and shower curtains are to be had here.

Dollarama is a reliable place to pick up those little household items that you would pay through the nose for at Shoppers, Canadian Tire etc. I can always find what I need here (after some searching as they seem to change the layout quite a lot).
The lineups are always long but they move fast. It seems that they have recently updated their registers as you can now pay by debit (not sure about credit). Don’t even think about trying to return anything as all products are final sale.
I find Dollarama great for things like light bulbs, hand soaps, cleaning products etc., but to be honest I probably wouldn’t by perishable foods here.

4 star for selection and convenience. Definitely a go in and know what you want, pay and go type of place. Patrons are super sketchy so go early in the morning and avoid the 4 – 5 pm rush. Get in, get out! The skip across the street to grab a Starbucks.

One of the older woman on the staff is rude, don’t yell at customers because you’re under staffed, as always lines are always long. I also don’t understand how every single employee, at each Dollarama store, works at such a slow pace at checkout. Is it really that hard to swipe a barcode? Place has no AC and one fan at the back.
Dollarama as a whole — keeps rasing their prices on the same items with terrible quality/​quanity items. They have some better items here, but I’d rather make a trip to Absolute Dollar at Gerrad Square. Their prices range much more but majority are $ 1 and much more choices and quality.

Like half the items I buy from here break the minute I open the package.
The other half break after the first use.
This place is supposed to be cheap. But repurchasing products because they break after a few uses is not an intelligent investment. And it isn’t kind on the landfills either.
Staff are rude and hate their lives. Especially the short older plump lady with long hair. I have seen her purposefully try to cause sh*t between her co-​workers just to get a laugh. Her only remaining enjoyment in life is abusing her Dollarama-​employee-​power to tell off customers in an unnecessarily rude manner.
So no, I do not recommend. But I will probably continue to buy napkins and shower curtain hooks from here.

Almost always a line. Great store though. They have a bit of everything.

While this Dollarama has quite a few items, I find it more disorganized than the Dollarama’s in the suburbs and also a lot more cramp considering that a lot of the time, the lines extend into aisles and you just have a hard time getting out. I’ve tried coming here during my lunch breaks, but I need at least 20 minutes (15 to find what I am looking for and at least 5 minutes for cashing out) and given that I love to eat, it’s not really feasible for me to come her during lunch hour.
However, they do get points in that it is open a bit early (9 am) and closes later on weekdays (10 pm) vs the 9 to 9 in the ‘burbs and also get points for having a good selection despite the disorganized store. Overall, good for buying some of your day to day stuff as long as you have around 20 to 30 minutes to spare.

I’ve become a bit Dollarama obsessed. This one is a bit «People of Walmart» and feels kind of poky but still manages to have a huge selection of everything. I love the cheapness. And I love that I can find pretty much everything in here from chocolate to feather boas through stuff for the garden I don’t have, stickers and generic Pepcid. I’ve spent many, many happy minutes wandering up and down the aisles in some kin of fugue state wondering if I need a garden gnome for my balcony, or if I have any use for a packet of Canada pencils. The housewares are actually pretty good and you can’t compain about mugs for $ 1.25. I also really like their 74% cocoa chocolate which is a steal for $ 1.50/100g. I think I prefer it to Lindt!
Downsides-​slightly dodgy patrons at times and a mildly scruffy look. But I’ll completely take that for the savings. I’m a fan.

Clean and organized for a dollar store. Sure they have some cheesy stuff, but you can get so many useful things here! The prices are awesome. Shower organize for $ 1.50?! Awesome. They had a really good beginner’s hammer for $ 3 and some awesome rugs and things for the house as well as A CANDY ISLE. Go here on your way to the movies, to get a quick gift, or something for the house.
Careful about checking out. Cashiers are not thrilled to do their job and the check out lanes are jammed up by the entrance making it a bubblemuck.

This time I brought my list & didn’t forget anything! Ha!

I have not been in a Dollarama in a long time, mainly due to the fact that I did not really want a cheap chocolate bar or drink which I happen to buy everytime in the past. However, one day I stumble upon this location near Yonge station and figured that I need a sugar fix without spending so much money on anywhere else.
The place and atmosphere just felt claustrophobic to me, Dollarama is always been as large as a grocery store with place and somewhat labels on their aisles. However, this place did not have that and I have to run around in a circle until I get what I want.
Unfortunately, the thing that I want wasn’t there but I found that they have White Chocolate covered pretzels that costs $ 1.25 and I was so stoked to try them out. Since they are dirt cheap, it seems that they dip those salted pretzels into white chocolate and it felt like a mixture of salt and white chocolate which at first was disgusting but it was decent. I still rather go to bulk barn and get these.

I see that a fellow Unilocaler has opened her review with «This Place is So Dangerous». She is right, but I have quite a different set of reasons for why this particular Dollarama is dangerous.
1. Unfriendly Staff: compared to other Dollarama locations, this one seems severely understaffed and grumpy. I don’t blame them though, because of reasons 2 & 3.
2. Small and Extremely Poor Layout: I won’t even go into the fluorescent lighting because I understand this is a dollar store, but the store is so suffocating because of its cheap product fumes and the minuscule store size. The aisles are as narrow as they can get and peeps are as inconsiderate as they can get = not a good mix. The cashier station needs to be rotated 90 degrees so that the whole front of the store won’t be congested like whoa. Seriously, just a tiny spatial optimization would do them a whole lot of good — I would almost volunteer to do it myself for minimal wages…
3. Has More Than Its Fair Share of Crazies: If you know me in person, you know that I am very kind to strangers. BUT what I cannot stand is people who are RUDE to the people around them when they are clearly able to understand the basic concepts of respect and logic. I have been harassed/​witnessed harassment at this store too many times while waiting in line to pay for my regular fix of $ 1 Hickory Sticks.
If Hickory Sticks weren’t so good and this location wasn’t on my way to and from things so often, I would stay far away from this location of Dollarama.

Woe betide the person who receives a birthday card from yours truly.
In my family, we have a ritual. We select the most inappropriate card available, and desecrate it with all manner of foul and vulgar profanity. And Justin Bieber stickers. Lots of Justin Bieber stickers. Especially if the card is designated for my father.
Dollarama is an excellent source of inexpensive cards (surprisingly, they usually ring in at about a dollar).
Even better, they have an excellent selection of age-​inappropriate cards for the Zoomer Strawberry Shortcake fan in your life.
Better still, they have a wide assortment of religiously-​themed cards, which is awesome when you don’t practice said religion, but want to hedge your bets.
Sugar junkies will appreciate an aisle full of name brand chocolate bars and candy. Office drones might prefer the dollar bottles of Diet Coke. If you’re looking for party favours or decorations, I recommend Dollarama highly. If you’re looking for groceries to survive the coming zombie apocalypse, I guess you could do worse. I’d stay away from the housewares. And the staff. They kinda scare me.

This place is SO random, with all the things you didn’t think you needed. Most things are very cheaply made, of course, but fun to have nevertheless. I can never find exactly what I want, but I usually find a variation of whatever it is. The prices are just too good for me to bother looking elsewhere.

This place is so dangerous.
Considering it’s a dollar store I don’t know how I never leave without spending minimum $ 20
You literally can’t not find not only what you are looking for but also things that you gave up looking for elsewhere because they were too expensive or just didn’t know where to look.
This place is tha shit!

I love this Dollarama — considering the location, its huge and it carries quite a lot of different things. I was there tonight (and I go at least 2x a week) and to they’re actually moving lots of things around so the whole store makes a bit more sense.
My favourite section is the containers section, where i’ve gotten quite a lot of variously sized plastic containers for my pantry and kitchen. The food section isn’t bad either — if you can get past the fact that you’re buying food at the dollar store, you’ll start saving quite a bit of money on things like rice and snack food like candy and chips. It’s usually busy but they have a huge seasonal selection and I rarely walk out without having purchased something. Love the fact that I spend $ 12 – 15 and walk out with a bag full of stuff!

Not a bad location, the selection is good, the staff are ok, but the layout SUCKS… it’s hard to get in, it’s hard to manœuvre the isles and it’s very hard to check out.
The college park location is 10x better and has more selection.

Dollarama is where I go on my lunch hour when I’m trying to be «thrifty». (Working in Yorkville can burn a hole in your wallet if you do too much lunchtime shopping)
It’s a great place to get cheap everything. This one in particular has a larger than average selection of candy and food products for a dollar store.
They also have awesome seasonal décor, I like to buy my Christmas decorations here and greeting cards for people I don’t like very much.
Also stock stationary items, cleaning products, cheap kitchen stuff, toys and gifts.
There is always a huge queue to pay at lunch hour, but it usually moves quickly enough.

The thing I can’t get past is the toxic smell of this Dollarama. I was even reluctant to enter with a baby but decided to just quickly take a peek.
The aisles are really narrow, the lighting dim, ventilation poor, and the fumes from all the plastic merchandise is overwhelming.
Collage Park Dollarama is a million times better!!!

At the College Park Dollarama I saw the exact same bath pillow for $ 2 that I paid $ 13 at The Bay … there is just something wrong with that!
I am planning to go back and buy some flower pots