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Dollar Giant
Category: Shopping Department Stores Shopping Fashion Department Stores Department Stores [Edit]
6464 Fraser StreetVancouver, BC V5W 3A4
Neighbourhood: Sunset
(604) 321-4428
- Hours:
Mon-Sat 9 am - 9 pm
Sun 10 am - 6 pm
3 reviews for Dollar Giant
3 reviews in English
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Review from Gigi T.
Vancouver, BC
12/13/2011
This place is DA BOMB!
Last time I went there for scrapbooking materials, and they have a whole row of them! Some of the materials I saw there were cheaper than I got from elsewhere. But its $1.25, I can't complain on the already low pricing! They have a little of everything. So rather than driving to several places to get them, I can buy it all from one store. Saves time & gas.
Worst part is parking, there are limited amount of space on the street available. Its free, so some people tends to park longer than they can. -
Review from Truman W.
Vancouver, BC
8/30/2010
Great selection of random knick-knacks for (obviously) very recession/student/poverty/wallet-friendly prices.
Pros:
- Fairly convenient, central-ish location for that part of town
- Hours are pretty solid, being open until 9pm
- Takes all sorts of payment, including debit and credit, which is convenient
- Helium tank on-site for those situations that require emergency balloon-inflation
- Been able to find a wide variety of stuff here, including a ball pump (which I should have bought here, but instead paid four times as much at Canadian Tire) and even those limited edition aluminium Vancouver 2010 Olympic Coke bottles (souvenirs for out-of-town-ers on the mega-cheap)
- It's a smaller location than the sorta massive two-floor one at Knight-Kingsway, but consistently better-stocked, with fewer sparse, empty shelves
Cons:
- Experienced some longer-than-desirable queues whilst waiting to pay, but still much better than the almost-always rammed Dollarama downtown on Seymour
- Also experienced some quaint odours wafting about, and some nasty as-yet untended spills of mysterious fluids on the floor (hopefully isolated incidents, of course)
Obviously, being a dollar store, it is what it is, so don't expect anything hyper-fancy, but I would vouch for this particular Dollar Giant as a solid example of its kind, good for random odds and ends, and also to appease that irrepressible urge to buy random things when you're roaming about Sunset with only a fiver in your pocket. -
Review from Arün D.
Vancouver, BC
3/31/2011
This place is the bee's knees. They've got some cool stuff at some cool prices - food's a buck an item (or less!) and everything else is $1.25. Everything used to be a dollar but after the economic crash a while ago they bumped prices up to $1.25. I was bummed at first but a lot of the stuff you get is still not bad for $1.25. Most of it is traditional dollar store fare, but they've got useful stationary, cards, batteries (they run out quickly but a buck twenty-five for a pack of batteries!?) and nice ice cream bars. Really great hours and a really great selection. Even if you aren't looking to buy something, you'll end up buying a bunch of things.
