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February 2024 by Neen F.
Do not buy gift cards from this store - they do not work and Brigid the manager refuses to care, along with their headquarters. They charge $20+ for their gift cards and they do not work. They are fraudulent and taking advantage of their customers. Stay away from this store and their gift cards.
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December 2023 by Bob S.
this kind of review seems a bit risky to write, as i hate the possibility it might well sully and discredit my reputation for having a keen sense of taste in regard to good things. (i'm ignoring here the aesthetic we refer to as "taste" being something that can be applied to the bad as well as the good, as in "it's so bad it's good"). but i get past that concern knowing i wouldn't write here in the first place if i didn't include places that will never be on a "best of..." list, places you get to walking down poorly lit streets, near the railroad tracks... places like this. don't be mislead though, this isn't my regular beat. my tastes may be pedestrian but i know and enjoy good places to get fed or drunk, luxury hotels with midnight room service, etc. but shopping here embraces another side, my incurable need to bottom-feed for generics at places like the dollar tree, aka family dollar, aka 99 cent store, grocery outlet, etc etc etc. what can i say, except remind those who've paid attention that i lived many formative years near the corner of bowery and canal streets on the lower east side of manhattan. most don't go there with silver spoon in mouth, and to paraphrase an old saw, you can take the boy from canal street but not canal street from the boy. i should in fact be writing about that neighborhood instead because that's where the best of the best shopping at low tide is found. the area actually extends anywhere around the lower fringes of soho and points east, into both chinatown and the old jewish tenement neighborhood which, by the way, is where i got my first job as a winemaker - at shapiro's kosher winery on rivington street, another quite bizarre story. but let's stay here for the moment, what exactly is the point of shopping in a store where everything costs $1? perhaps a cheap thrill of sorts, rub elbows and otherwise feel solidarity with those who genuinely have little choice but to come here? well, yeah truth to tell there is some of that, revisiting early less well-heeled circumstances in life. there were years back then when this kind of thing wasn't a thrill at all, rather true necessity. in fact, truth be told i still find myself looking along highway sideroads where, failing to hitch a ride after the sun began to sink, i'd be thinking very seriously about bedding down, behind a thick stand of bushes or even under a friendly and deserted bridge overpass. anyway that was years ago, but such good years they were, ho ho. so what's the point of coming here now, a place most are unlikely ever to enter, unwashed as it may seem? well, that depends on whether or not you're conditioned to buy "famous" aluminum foil, or feel your toothpaste lacks something if you haven't seen its big-smile teevee commercial, or question the safety of a product that costs a fraction of the going rate? do you need your consumer staples to have brand name fame and notoriety, the kind ginned up by marketers to make buying it somehow hot for you? it's really ok if you answer yes to these questions, realizing of course that this brand celebrity and fluff adds considerable cost to the shelf price, but otherwise there's little difference compared to brand anonymous. in the 60s, the corporate state rather than the deep state was considered the great evil empire that ruled our lives if not the entire universe. later on i made peace with this demon in order to make a comfortable living developing and manufacturing stuff for those same evil empires. from that experience i know firsthand that what goes in the tube or box or bag or bottle is generally the same whether its label is well-known name, or some x-the-unknown nobody name. the latter is often packed at the end of a production run when the amount of product still in the tank exceeds the necessary case pack on order for the brand. so this goes in a tube or box or bottle that you wind up buying off-market here for $1, instead of 5 at cvs. so Is that all
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November 2023 by johanna herrera
More stock than a lot of stores
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October 2023 by Mary S.
Apathetic employees, otherwise okay store. Good selection of products, but don't ask for any help or they act like you are the greatest imposition on their time.
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September 2023 by Hei-Lee Ingrande-Edwards
Smaller selection of goods in comparison to other locations. Aisles are usually stocked and clear to walk through (each time I visit) and staff are kind. Be prepared for longer than usual lines, this location is popular and right off Hwy 101. Be patient with the staff - they are doing their best!
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April 2023 by EmilyEm
Today the store seemed well stocked - 2023 calendar ✔️ cleaning products ✔️ gift bags, bows, wrapping paper ✔️
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March 2023 by Emily Ebbert
Today the store seemed well stocked - 2023 calendar ✔️ cleaning products ✔️ gift bags, bows, wrapping paper ✔️
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March 2023 by Rafael Nunn
Bargain prices for many items one might need on any given day
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February 2023 by Julia M.
Dollar Store # 278 - Great employee Joe works the night hours! Also, he makes you feel safe in a not always safe area of San Rafael. He is so friendly and will actually walk you to an item you need in the store! Ran around town looking for a purple bow, 3 party related stores later, I am at Dollar Tree! Bam there it is, and priced 3 times less than other stores? Always has holiday decor at great prices and before all the other stores! Have you bought reader glasses lately? Please, I have bought at least 20 pairs at Dollar Tree just to sprinkle around the house and car so when I need to take a quick look and see at something in writing, they are right at hand! 825 Francisco Blvd W. San Rafel
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January 2023 by L. Dashiell
Poor Selection. Hardly anything in the store - empty shelves. The store was a MESS! Merchandise piled on top of unrelated items. Merchandise damaged and on the floor.
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November 2022 by Ninja Huihui
I guess I'm out of touch. I naively thought everything in the store would be $1 with some specialty priced items visibly marked, but turns out everything's $1.25.Cashier we had was very pleasant and the store was surprisingly tidy and clean.
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October 2022 by Amber T
Yorik is an absolute saint. He was patient with me and rung up my 30+ piece order three separate times when my bank kept declining my card due to an internal error. He even kept my frozen goods in the ice chest for me in between ringing them up. He really went the extra mile and today I was very thankful for him!
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September 2022 by Janice shy Sh u
EVETY THING YOU YOU COULD NEED? The people that are enplode here , work hard!
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August 2022 by Russ (R. Charan Pagan)
Dollar Tree is my favorite of all of the dollar/bargain stores. They have a lot of useful household items, personal items and snacks. Their pet treats and toys are a good bargain. It is also a great place to get artistic and craft items.
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August 2022 by DeAnna J.
I always come in to the Francisco store in San Rafael every Saturday to turn in my CRV recycle in but Saturday the VA usual manager was not in . When I asked for the manager the Hispanic tall young man stated that he was the manager . He lackadaisically counted my plastic and aluminum can but refused to give me the 25 cents for the 5 glass bottles . I had to keep track of the count because he wasn't . Then he asked if I wanted cash for my recycle as I replied yes(not sure how else I would my money in cash?) he refused to accept the glass and wouldn't give me back the glass bottles and told me to leave or he would call the police. I told him how right ahead call the police please. I sat out front waiting for 15-20 min. for the police to arrive and couldn't wait any longer . At this I guess I will have to report to the head office and file and police report at the station myself.
