Pricebusters

There’s a lack of good hardware stores around Glasgow, especially if you don’t have a car to get you to the further away ones.
This shop on Dumbarton Road is great. It looks small from the outside, and you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s another one of those selling random overpriced junk you’ll never use again. In fact, it has a lot of useful hardware items, and it’s packed from floor to ceiling so you’d never expect how much they actually do stock.
The staff have always been very friendly and happy to exchange items if they don’t work or aren’t suitable. A bit cramped though, the only negative.

Despite resembling yet another chaotic and unnavigable junk shop from the outside, Pricebusters is actually one of my favourite businesses in the area.
Indeed you get the impression a bit of thought has gone into the nick nacks they sell. Instead of being a randomly assembled collection of disco balls, dog toys and Hannah Montana pencil cases, this place stocks genuinely useful item — plug adapters, USB cables, TV aerials, paint brushes etc…
It’s also done in a, relatively speaking, orderly fashion and you will find staff to be extremely helpful.
This business has been on Dumbarton Road for a very long time and it’s easy to see why. Two thumbs up.

On first glance or encounter it is easy to feel the ‘not quite sure what to make of this’ vibe. Yes, I also fell into this category. I believe my words may have been something along the lines of ‘That’s enough now Roger. Let’s just go to lunch. Now.’.
However, a few visits — and purchases — later, I willingly admit that I was wrong. If you take a slightly longer look this shop is actually full of very useful items (see Paul’s review). The kind of items that you image would be very handy to pick up on your daily wanderings if you realised that you suddenly needed a multi point plug (think Christmas time…) or the like.
Yet, sometimes — especially at Christmas time — it can be unbelievably difficult to find these items. In times like these, when you require rather boring, dull but very necessary household items this place can definitely come to the rescue. While, others may have given up after just one step in the door; this means there’s tons of goodies for you.
So, maybe not great for last minute birthday presents (but it really does depend on who you’re buying for) but one to bear in mind. Additionally, they have good prices and friendly staff who can easily and very quickly locate your desired item.
Perfect place to quickly pop into while on your way out to lunch.

Pricebusters on Dumbarton Road is the kind of eclectic hardware shops that you imagine must have been there since, well, forever.
The pavement outside the store is lined with stack boxes of various sizes, old-​lady-​style shopping trolleys and plastic flowers, among many, many other things.
Once inside, believe me when I say that you won’t know where to start. It’s the kind of shop that stocks everything — but you’ll still have to have hawk-​like vision to be able to track down what it is that you went in there for. In fact, despite the over flowing shelves packed with crockery, tools, paint, wool, toys, light fittings, kitchen implements etc etc etc — I could really only focus on the ceiling. Why? Because it’s weird. It’s covered in plaster spikes with purple ends. I think you really need to see it for yourself.
They were also playing a CD of Abba’s greatest hits. This may attract you, or it may repel you. I’ll let you make up your own mind.