As a girl who loves her stationery selection more than her wardrobe, Officeworks is a warehouse…read moresized bastion of happiness. Stocking all your office, school and work needs, the Marion branch is just as big as the others with a more extensive electronics department. Printers, paper, pens, scrapbooks, Minties...you name it and Officeworks will have it. Staff in store can be sparsely populated but are generally quite knowledgeable and if they aren't too sure will find someone who can help. The store also runs workshops on the weekend catering to small business owners. Prices are quite cheap and parking is a breeze.

I came here to get a whiteboard, and realised that it has moved across the road!!! It is now a…read moremega-store, absolutely HUGE! While everything is laid out well, it is still quite intimidating when you enter the store. The aisles on the left are labelled, which is handy. Since I went on a Monday evening, there were a lot of staff on hand to help me out. Saying that, what is listed on the website is not necessarily what is in store ... so I had to improvise. They now have an aisle of upmarket fancy desk accessories, probably to rival Kikki K and to some extent Smiggle (in the fact that they are colour coded) - very nice! I will definitely have to come here again ;) On the right hand side of the store is all the electrical and office equipment - this seems easy to negotiate, and again there were plenty of staff here to help out customers. Pretty impressive!

Usually I'm a big lover of stationery, especially when it's bright colours and available in pink…read more But I do find the Smiggle products a bit expensive and the quality is terrible as I have had no luck with all the products I've purchased here. I've brought a number of pens here over the past year as I like the range of colours the smiggle gel pens come in. Unfortunately the lids broke on all five of them and one even stopped working a few weeks after I brought it. So I thought maybe it was just the pens but just now my Smiggle backpack broke all because the zip was not installed properly in the first place. When the backpack was made, there was no end placed on the zipper and it was just cut off and stitch in place causing the entire zipper pull to come off when I unzipped my bag. I went into the marion store to show them what had happened and I was told I was carrying too much stuff in my bag and I had a good run out of it. I've only had this bag a few months and it's in great condition. I thought Smiggle products were built for school kids who can give their bags a beating? I only carry a few things to work each week and now I can't use the bag at all because of Smiggle's faulty product construction. The sales assistant told me to go online to make an enquiry and turns out she gave me the wrong information because they told me to go to the store with the problem. Usually the staff are nice and talkative but I wasn't satisfied with the service I received when I wanted to make a complaint. I'd suggest to buy here if you like bright tacky stationery and you don't care about quality and how long the product will last.

Typo are a very fashionable stationary store franchise that have been cropping up in a number of…read moreplaces across the Adelaide Metropolitan area. While generally quite pricey with designer stationary items, you can easily grab a bargain if you know what you are looking for, hence my first piece of advice for shopping here - keep your eye open for $5 clearance tags. The pens at Typo are very nice and its worth looking at finding a nice pen while you are there because even though they are more expensive then what you probably could get from Kmart nearby, they certainly last longer and feel nicer to write with. They also have a great range of phone cases and other cool items here. They even had a wooden QWERTY keyboard for a desktop computer, which I found really cool. The store is quite small though, so it is important to keep your eye open for other shoppers. Make sure that you also check out their funny birthday cards too.

Yes, I agree with the previous reviewer - Typo is definitely a step above Smiggle! Let's say it's…read morein between Kikki K and Smiggle, for arguments' sake ;) This particular Typo is pretty squishy, but as long as you have time to browse around the store and squeeze past young people, then you'll find it worth it. I like the copious amount of skulls in this store - I confess I have a weakness for them, and am pretty pleased to find them pretty much all the time here! I think they go too far sometimes with their un-useful items which are supposed to be 'clever' ... I can forsee many stupid gifts being thrown in the bin. Apart from this, if you're looking for a cute mouse pad, a cool mug, a quirky notebook or an awesome laptop bag, then this should be your first stop. Not as classy as Kikki K, but more grown up than Smiggle ;)