This is a rather interesting place and certainly worth a look. I don't feel like it is quite on a…read morestar rating level. To say if this place is good or bad is sort of like asking if people are good or evil. Like people, A to Z event sales just sort of "is".
I was going to Restaurant Depot, which is in a curious area of town primarily occupied by bulk food suppliers, the USPS sorting center, and other non-pedestrian businesses. I noticed some people outside a brick warehouse building with the sign A to Z event guides, they had shopping carts filled with boxes of appliances that looked as if they may have fallen off the back of a trunk, literally. Curiosity overcame me and I went inside.
I might as well have stepped into a petting zoo during feeding time one summer day. The place was hot, unpleasantly fragrant, and chaotic to say the least. There were huge mounds of clothes allegedly from "department stores," for 2 dollars apiece. I grabbed a Merona dress in some size other than my own kinda just because.
They had tables and shelves full of cut rate kitchen appliances for 15 dollars, some used, some in boxes, some in pieces, few were in complete sets at this point in the day. There was much redundancy, with tons of Cooks Belgium Waffle makers, toasters, coffee makers, pressure cookers, etc. Past the kitchen ware section were rows and rows of boxes of "drug store items, $1." If I had any particular affliction or needed to restrock my medicine cabinet, it may not have been a bad place to go but like the kitchen section most boxed items (such as hair dyes) had since been opened, shuffled through, and separated from their box content siblings.
Past the drug store was the home decor section, with blankets, pillows, sheets, drapes, comforters, and more. This may've been one of the better sections if you find your self needing generic comforters and sheets all of a sudden. I actually felt some comforters and bed pads made of down. If I wasn't already equipped, I probably would have grabbed some.
Anyway, the point is A to Z Event Sales is certainly an experience in the most value neutral sense of the term. Worth checking out if you find your self that way. I'll shoot an update if the toaster oven I got doesn't work.
