99 Cent Only Stores

If my 94 year old grandma says this is the best 99 Cent Only Store ever then, gosh darnit, you’d better believe that it is!
If I don’t make it to this particular store once a week, I’d say that I do definitely once or twice a month! I never really thought of going here in the past, except when I wanted to have some fun with Grandma. But, it is also my boyfriend’s favorite place to buy snacks and drinks for work. We eat at The Wet Burrito in this same shopping center quite often and then afterwards we walk on over and get a little shopping done. Love it!
I think the thing that I like about this particular location is that the cashiers are really friendly and nice. They smile, they talk to you and seem to be decent, happy employees! Besides that, the store is generally very clean and organized. I also think it has the best variety of inexpensive holiday/​seasonal items too. The produce selection is terrific!
For all the haters, yes this place (as most 99 Cent Only Stores) does have some items that are over 99 cents… but it also has quite a few items that are TWO or more for 99 cents. Pick your battles and get over it. The bargains are still wonderful on most, if not all, items.
I’d like to send major kudos to this particular store and its management for offering a pleasant and clean place to shop… my sweet Grandma thanks you too!
CHEERS!

This place is great! I consistently find good deals and the service is very good. Mitchell is the King of patience. Today I witnessed him being harassed by a witch. The crazy women wanted to know why he and the other workers did not know what a Yabba Dabba candy bar was!!! She would not let it rest. Then she struggled (taking a very long time) to count out for pennies out of a handful of them. Had she been nice I would have felt sad for her. But she was consistently LOUD and RUDE. Through it all Mitchell was polite and professional.

Many items cost more than a dollar! What does «99 cents only» mean?
Second time this week I have walked out of the store with nothing. Hansen small size energy drinks, 4 for $.9999 or 99.99 cents or as most reasonably competent people would say, a dollar. And of course plus CRV plus Tax. Two signs clearly marking the product, but no, they ring up for a dollar each plus CRV plus tax! Now I can wait for the manager to opine on the pricing issue or cut my losses and leave.
I bought a solar flashlight key fob and tried to get it to recharge. put it in the window to get light, tried the dash, put it outside. Liked the idea and it worked when I bought it but it would not recharge or eventually, light up, so I took it back to the cashier who asked «where is your receipt?». I have never seen this type of flashlight before at any store so I did not even think about a receipt but she had me. Then she commented that it looked used and dirty. Again she had me. I really should have kept it in pristine shape while I was trying to get it to recharge.
A couple years ago, one of the plethora of shopping carts always outside of the store was shoved into my car breaking the plastic light housing. There was a note left by a customer who obviously felt responsible for the damage but the phone number was not good. I asked the manager «Jesus» about it and he took the note and faxed it to the corporate headquarters with some other notes and gave me a number to call. I called the number multiple times, leaving messages but was never contacted by anyone! I should have kept the note!
A relative purchased some gift cards for a birthday present. Some worked, some did not… The cashier suggested that cards which were not activated properly were probably just taken from the counter. Yep, that’s probably it, buy a couple, steal a couple, shuffle em together and give them for a gift.

I guess living in Brea has its perks because this store is one of the nicest 99 I’ve ever been to. Cashiers are courteous as well, come check them out, bathrooms can use some t.l.c tho.

I recently visited this store to buy some juices that are only sold here. I went to the aisle found what I was looking for then walked towards the front to pay. When I got there was a huge line of maybe 13 people and only on till open. There are these ghost tills sitting there waiting to be used but they lay them empty. Making it worse is that a employee saw the and did nothing to correct it. Didn’t come to think that maybe if she’s unable to open, that she could get a hold of someone to open? That’s silly. You want our money for your products but you have people waiting in line that’s going down an aisle?

Pleasant but space service. Always a great value. Good buys on produce.

Found yet another location for my favorite store to shop. This is located in Brea in an outdoor plaza that features many different fast food establishments. This is directly across the parking lot from «John’s Place», which is a wonderful spot for breakfast no matter what time of day. For me, this is a big deal! Since I normally visit a 99 cent store once or twice a week anyway, saving a drive by hitting two spots at once is a home run!

These plauces dont seem legit enough to be huge pblic companies, but they are…
The people who I speak to are generally aloof and unhelpful, but evrything is 99 cents so I guess that is the right combo.
Came for a surfing jesus christmas statue, but apparently they had sold out.

I buy birthday cards here for guess what?! $ 1.00! You can even buy balloons, party hats, etc. I once took my niece here right before her 6^th birthday and told her she could buy 20 items of whatever she wanted. Do you know how big of a smile she had from that shopping spree?! =) and guess what it cost me? $ 20.00 VALUE, Baby, VALUE!

Mr. P needed snacks for a business trip, so we dropped in.
Store is a bit messy, but we found what we needed all right.
At checkout, the checker rang up the wrong price, and when I asked her about it, she rolled her eyes and called for a manager. When she explained the situation (in Spanish) to the manager, the manager got huffy and said, in Spanish to the checker, «Some people just want everything for free.» Then the manager spoke English to us, explaining her take on the pricing situation to us.
Mr. P then explained in English (although his first language is Spanish) that the pricing as displayed on the shelf, didn’t match what the manager claimed the pricing should be. So the manager okayed the price correction.
Employees should never display a bad attitude to customers, and definitely should never insult them, even when they think the customer won’t understand what they’re saying.

This location is a little cleaner than the one on Imperial Hwy. They also have a section on sugar free food (which I like since I“m diabetic) Parking is sufficient.