I came here looking for a bargain, got it, and yet, somehow, I feel like I got ripped off. smh…read morelol.
On my way to lunch at a restaurant that is located in the same shopping center as Sliding Prices, I noticed the store and made a mental note of coming back in that direction to check it out.
Soo ...
Parking is easy to find. Sliding Prices is on one end of this transitioning shopping center, and parking in this very big free parking lot is always available. Face masks are requested for all customers, and employees also wear face masks. When I walked up to the store and looked through the clear floor to ceiling windows, I noticed a very spacious store that looked like it was in the middle of moving inventory. I went inside. Yep, looked like a store moving its inventory, with many pallets with boxes and boxes of teas, large boxes (think petting zoo pens sized boxes) with the tops cut off and filled with various things, such as shoes (individual ones that customers have to find the match shoe that's in the box somewhere, shirts, dresses, phone cases, etc. All of those items were in the middle of the store. On one side of the store were furniture, tall electric fans, kitchen cookware, all made by manufacturers I've never heard of before. There were also other various things; junk, really. What went through my mind while I was looking in wonderment around this store was: Many of the items here look like they fell off of trucks and someone salvaged whatever they could and is now trying to sell them.
I found what needed - a protective case for my cell phone that is being sold in regular and reputable retail stores for almost $40 - I got for $5, so I bought two of them so I could meet the $10 minimum for credit card transactions. I was happy with my purchases and replaced my older and cracked cell phone case with one of the new ones. I thought this was a real bargain ...
Until I looked a Sliding Prices' website, which stated that the prices of everything in their stores start at $10 every Friday, and then get discounted to a lower price every day until everything is $1 on Thursdays. Then the prices get reset again on Friday back to $10, and the cycle repeats itself. So, if this held true, my cell phone cases should have cost me $1 each. Oh, this place has a no exchanges/no returns policy. Be careful what you get here. I like to drink tea, and there were some boxes (like 120 tea bags per box), and I thought this was going to be good until I looked at the expiration date, and the contents had expired over a month ago. Many things have beat up packaging. Some, not very many, of the items looked in pristine condition. If you're in the area, you have time to kill, and want to just browse, drop in. I sure wouldn't recommend going out of your way just to come here.