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  • Affordable pricing
  • Wide variety of products available
  • Frequent inventory updates
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  • Inconsistent pricing practices
  • Poor customer service experiences
  • Store cleanliness issues

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    Reviewed March 25, 2025

    I used to go to 99 Cents Only store pretty often, most for household stuff, snacks and things for the kids. You can't beat the prices, especially with how expensive everything has gotten lately. If you're on a tight budget, it can help stretch your dollar. But be warned it can be hit or miss in most the 99 Cents Only store - like some of the time, the shelves are stocked and neat, other time it looks empty or there is only 1 or 2 items left of a product. Also, the lines can be long, especially in the evening as they only have 1 cashier on working.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 16, 2024

    I went to this 99 Cents store Clairemont Mesa Blvd looking for good deals on toys for my 7 great grand kids, due to going out of business. I do have osteoarthritis, can't walk too much, I'm a disabled person, so I left an item on a shelf, where all Summer stuff are, a woman employee working on that aisle, came up to me and with a rude attitude yelling at me to give her that item, I was like which one, she said the one you just put in there (some ladies hear how she was talking to me and just move their heads). She yelled at me, "Do Not leave stuff around," I responded, "That's part of your job," she responded that she didn't care that she was leaving anyways. Very disrespectful and bad customer service having this kind of employee at 99 cents store in Clairemont Mesa.

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      Reviewed Feb. 26, 2024

      I was shopping at the 99 Cents store in Houston, Texas. The store is located at 10787 Jones Road. I brought a pizza, I got food poisoned. I was so sick. The pizza expiration date said January 2024. I brought the Pizza on February 19th. I didn’t see the expiration date. But the store knew it. When I returned the pizza the “young lady” who checked me out and gave me my refund, said that was the reason they were on sale. And it was my fault for buying it. I know their focus on your bottom-line “profit”, but not at the expense of the customer's (men, women, and children) health and well-being.

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      PriceRatesTransparencyHonesty & Transparency

      Reviewed Nov. 15, 2023

      Cypress Ca. 99 Cent store. If the price is higher than 99¢ they say it's posted and it's not. You'll get the surprise cost higher than 99¢ at check out which isn't transparent. The Giftcards I was charged for were normally 99¢ each this time I was charged $1.99 & when I asked the cashier if the price increased they said they don't know! Also they sell fruits & vegetables by weight but don't have a scale to weigh the items, they tell you we'll weigh it at check out. FDA has laws pertaining to having a scale for businesses selling food by weight, I will escalate these business practices which are misleading the public! Also to share this experience with neighbors & friends.

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      Reviewed Sept. 25, 2023

      The cost is not what is supposed. It's suppose to be 99 cents only but it's not so that's why I'm giving a bad review. I'm not changing my rate until you guys make it 99 cents. So sorry but it has to be like that. Thank you for listening.

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      PriceRates

      Reviewed Sept. 14, 2023

      I went to the 99 cent store today. No prices on the items or signs saying the items are higher. I know prices are going up but if it is not marked use to be it was 99 cents. Go to check out and both items rang up at $1.50 so I questioned it. Cashier said she did not know. She does not do the pricing. If everything is not 99 cents if it is not marked should be a sign or signs placed so people know. FYI I could go 3 stores over and get the same things at the Dollar Tree for $1.25.

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      Reviewed Aug. 26, 2023

      What a joke this company is. They should be sued for false advertising. 99 percent of the store is NOT "99 cents" only... Just overpriced junk from China marked up by 50, or 100 percent. How do they get away with this still? If you shop there, you're a fool.

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      Reviewed Aug. 19, 2023

      The 99 Cents store on York Blvd in Highland Park needs to be closed down. They are very unprofessional, racist, rude and nasty. Today my Autistic daughter and I were verbally abused and insulted by a cashier.

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      Reviewed Aug. 1, 2023

      To have a sign that ID's a store as 99c and have no 99 cent products is FALSE advertisement. I would assume lawsuits could be justified under these conditions to force them to change the store name! I feel that the city and state should investigate these businesses to make sure they adhere to fair advertising practices. Otherwise, any business can sell 20-dollar items under the guise of a 99c store. Which to consumers like myself is not only underhanded, but should be illegal.

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      Reviewed July 6, 2023

      Today was my first and last shopping experience with 99 Cents Only. The store was filthy, the products were either cartoonishly small or priced above most local retailers. The produce was dumpster fresh and the "dairy" quite scary. Never again. Winco & Grocery Outlet Only! Better prices at Raleys (high end market)! I would go to a food bank or gleaners before ever setting foot again in the vile, overpriced, predatory sham of a discount store. The customers seemed disproportionately disabled or POC for our region. Yet another example of greedy corporations preying on economically disadvantaged people. Shameful. A food retailer version of payday loans. The only redeemable aspect of the experience were the employees who were friendly and efficient. I'm sure they're underpaid and mistreated. They all had a sad, beaten down feel about them. Like abused animals at a shelter trying to get adopted.

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      99 Cents Only Stores Company Information

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      99 Cents Only Stores
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      www.99only.com