This place is a riot! When the store was being built, I saw the sign and thought this was a store that specialized in winter sporting gear. Oh, so wrong. If you're old enough to remember, think of Five Below as Woolworth's meets Spencer Gifts. This is the updated five and dime of our youth. With inflation, it's five and dime, but five bucks and ten bucks.
Nothing is priced higher than five bucks, a great deal of merchandise is a buck or two, hence the name. You'll find stuff you need, like cell phone cases and accessories, charging cables, power adapters and the like, you'll find lots of stuff you don't need but can't live without, and you'll find stuff you didn't even know you needed.
Are you tired of paying twenty bucks for a lightning cable only to have it break off at the phone end in a few weeks? How about being tied to a three foot power cable? I found a ten foot lightning cable here - five bucks!
Posters - okay, usually kid stuff but there's even a few fun ones for adults, like NFL or MLB logos, I once found a poster of Starry Night - how can you van Gogh wrong?
Stores are regionalized. Sports stuff for local teams - Badgers, Packers, Brewers, socks, flags, throws, balls and speaking of sporting goods, where else can you find basketballs or soccer balls for five bucks? Playground balls, free weights, and who knows what? The inventory rotates and changes so you end up coming back. Seasonal, too. Summer is beach stuff and winter is snow stuff.
Kids stuff, too! Play Dough, stickers, dolls, toys, gadgets, just too much to describe.
Trust me - you have to see it to believe it. Penny candy is not gone, just inflated to a dime. You'll find a wide assortment of goodies - fill a bag, ten pieces for a buck.
Check it out - and have fun! Fun is what it's all about. read more