Red Dot Stores

I’m a sucker for stores like this. Although all the price tags are marked with low prices, I always find it turns out that I have spent a considerable amount of money once I get to the checkout. The problem is that I go in for something specific, like the wine glasses I clumsily break on a weekly basis and end up coming out with six packs of glow sticks, Christmas wrapping, stickers, batteries, Frank Sinatra CD’s, jewel cases, feather boas, sombreros and bulk packets of straws. Such is the hypnotic effect of this large discount store; it empties your pockets of coins and fills it with bits of junk that you don’t know you want until you are buying them. By then it’s too late. Luckily spending money on useless bits of shit is a lot of fun, or I’d have to give this a low star rating by way of warning people off.

Do you need random crap at bargain prices? Then you need to get down to Red Dot Stores! They have all the random crap you could ever want. If you’ve been scouring the shops for something but can’t find it anywhere, chances are you’ll find it somewhere on the shelves of Red Dot. I went in looking for some pretty little boxes to keep jewellery and things in. I looked in Target down the road, and found some stationery boxes for $ 15. $ 15 for a cardboard box? Hmm. I wasn’t convinced. I then toddled down to Red Dot Stores, where I found stacks upon stacks of neat little boxes in varying sizes and patterns, for about $ 2 each. Bingo! The only thing I will say is that the staff tend to be a bit unfriendly and abrupt, but you don’t come here for a celeb shopping experience, so who cares?

I’m not a regular customer at discount shops, but when I was looking for candy canes the other day I honestly could not find one shop in Fremantle that sold candy canes individually. That is not Christmas Spirit, let me tell you. I was recommended to try Red Dot by the lady at Friendlies Chemist, and what I found was not only individual candy canes but a whole heap of other cool shit for cheap as.
I don’t really see the point in buying expensive Christmas decorations from Myer, and so it seems neither do the generous folk of Red Dot. They’ve got so much tinsel, wrapping paper, stars, pretend snow flakes, lollies, biscuits, Christmas stationary and basically anything else Christmas themed.
The store’s also fairly easy to navigate, which is a notorious problem for me because I need a navman walking around my own neighbourhood.
They’re not exactly David Jones, but they’re good for grabbing stuff when the chips are down.
Oh and my candy cane? $ 2 for one as big as my arm. Yum.