Bed Bath and Beyond

Went here looking for bedding stuff and I found that everything was so basic. No more originality in the patterns and materials.

Americans import box store.
Weird selection of stuff from knives to vacuums. Prices seem decent. Nicely organized. Bought some Xmas decorations here. I’m excited to live closer so I can buy home storage stuff here.

Love love love this place!!!
It’s pretty big and has some amazing selection. The location is also pretty awesome. The staff is very friendly and take their time to explain the products. Been there tons of time coz very close to my house.
Brought a few frames once and the guy at the checkout took his time to carefully tape and wrap frames so that it doesn’t break or scratch. Didn’t rush to just finish it. Loved that they care more than just selling
Wish they had checkout at entrance too though. Need to walk to whole place to cash out.
I get flyers for 20% off recently so keep a look out for discounts.

Just your typical box store, located in DT and convenient, no need to drive out to the burbs.
Always a great selection of products. Just for me, going cross border shopping 2 – 3 times a month, BBB doesn’t faze me as much lol.
Didn’t find the service as generous, usually they walk you over. Needed to get another water bottle as I left mine at the hotel, and was just about to head to a workout upstairs. Decent selection

I was extremely happy when this store opened in the downtown location since most of the stores tend to be in the suburbs where they have the ample space. With the store being located on the second floor of the Aura building, it was simply massive.
Lots of organized sections with shelves after shelves and containers after containers of merchandise with everything imaginable. The store definitely has lots of merchandise «beyond» just bed and bath items. I would describe it as organized chaos because the store just has too much of everything that the eyes tend to wander.
Absolutely an eyesore as everything seemed crowded among the spacious floor as if they were trying to fill every available space with merchandise.
Prices are fairly high for most items, but they often have clearances which is worth checking out on a regular basis. Clearance items are displayed in the middle of the walkway making the aisles look even busier.
To get to checkout, one would have to walk through the maze of merchandise since it’s located on the opposite end which is definitely a good way to get customers looking at all their merchandise beyond what they came to shop for. Although, the checkout experience is often friendly, fast and efficient making the shopping venture worthwhile.
Funny they don’t go beyond with their customer service as rarely have I been asked if they can help me find anything since it really is quite like a scavenger hunt in the store. Hide and seek anyone?
Why can’t they have a checkout at the entrance as well? Well, only Customer Service is located there, that’s why.

This location is the biggest I’ve been to and I could just wander around all day looking at things that I want to buy and other things I never knew existed! It’s filled with all things beyond (haha). I couldn’t find anyone to help me and it was a pretty slow night. Perhaps the staff got lost in the aisles?!
All in all if you are looking for something unique and different you for sure will find it here. But expect to pay higher prices for it. I see more sales happening at Kitchen Plus and Stuff so maybe check there first. The few items I have bought to date haven’t had any issues. but since there isn’t one close to me not sure if I would go here specifically to shop.

More like, «Bed Bath and Broken Sh*t»
I’ve shopped here three times: one two occasions I got home to open a box with broken, dysfunctional merchandise. When it was a Brita filter with a broken pitcher, that was fine. I returned it a while later, got a new one, opened it in store and checked that the replacement wasn’t broken. All that cost me was time I’ll never get back.
But the second time around? I picked up an Iron Gym Pull-​Up Bar. Got it home, and it was missing instructions and some of the non-​essential foam was torn. Whatever — I really did not want to go back downtown, so I looked up the assembly instructions online and put it together. I then popped it into my door frame, and noticed on the first few test-​pulls that it wasn’t sitting right.
The stabilizer bar, the part that holds the entire thing in place and keeps you from, say, doing a pull-​up, wiggling slightly, and having the whole contraption come down on your face while you hurtle towards the ground? Yeah, that thing was warped and bowed. A test-​jiggle sent the whole thing off balance and into a dangerous dive toward my floor. This could have caused serious injury to someone slightly less careful about these things.
Broken merchandise. All the time. I’m sure they’ll replace it, but I could’ve been seriously hurt and now I’ve gotta spend a couple hours going back downtown to return it and get another one.
IF IT COMES IN A BOX, OPEN IT BEFORE LEAVING AND INSPECT EVERYTHING FROM ALL ANGLES. They clearly just take returned products and huck them back on the shelves for some other unsuspecting consumer, even if the products they’re selling wind up being unsafe as a result.
F*ck this place.

This place is really big, and almost impossible for just browsing, unless you want to kill some time.
I think the best strategy is to go in looking for something specific, otherwise it’s quite dangerous and you might get lost in there.
Prices are similar stores like Kitchen Stuff Plus (which I still prefer), but be on the lookout for one of their deals.
There’s also not a lot people to help you out, not very friendly.

I can’t shop here without getting the Team America theme song stuck in my head. Since I recently moved, this store has risen high on my list of regular check-​ins. Impeccable organization, good selection of products, and so-​so pricing, but sometimes the extra dollar is better spent. Hey, Dollarama can’t sell EVERYTHING, right?
I wish they’d expand their storage solutions — perhaps they can take over the fine china section, which always seems to be empty. BBB wins over Homesense in the practical department, but Homesense stocks better décor and way more furniture. Great customer service here!

It’s humongous. It is down the street from where I live. It’s totally generic in every way. I thought the prices were going to be way better than what they are. Premium pricing really. Go to Home Sense. I do shop there however during their 20% off single item promo days– which are quite frequent. Subscribe online.

Ok, so I have to confess, I was super-​excited for this store to open. In the US, it’s a pretty good go-​to location for reasonably priced, but reasonably nice kitchen, bed, and household products. Unfortunately, the first Canadian location here in Toronto did not come with American prices, but instead came with extra high Canadian prices. In fact, sometimes I am just shocked at what they charge.
That being said, the trick to shopping here successfully is to stop by occasionally with a list in your head of «things you need to buy at some point» not a list of «must buy» items. At times things will go on sale and become reasonably priced and then you should by them. Other times, you’ll find some of their items are pretty reasonable.
The staff here are generally quite helpful… if you can find one. It’s one of those situations that when it’s not busy, you get 10 offers for help when you’re just browsing. Then when you really need help, no one is to be found.
Overall, this is definitely a welcome addition to Toronto. I have to say… I just don’t quite enjoy shopping here that much. Something about the big box store design in a downtown location with eyeball-​scorching fluorescent lighting just doesn’t do it for me.
A TIP: sign up for their e-​mail ads and get frequent 20% off coupons.

Nice of the suburbs to come to Toronto. No, seriously! The choice of home stores is dwindling unless you are looking for a discount retailer (like Winners down the street), so it’s nice to have a place that’s giant, and well stocked.
Took forever to find a staff member, which is forgiveable because of the size of this place. However when I did find one, she was excellent! Went through all of the spec details, knew her stuff about the air circulator I was looking at, and even explained their no questions asked return policy.
Incredibly helpful, and I would totally recommend this place to anyone. Look in your newspaper, I’ve been seeing 20% off coupons once a month. Sweet because it’s like a «make your own sale» situation.

I’ve shopped at Bed Bath and Beyond twice now and they never seem to have customers. Both times I was there (Saturday after Black Friday) I saw way more staff but not a single person buying. On the plus side, lots of friendly staff — but since there are no customers each of them came to offer assistance every 30 seconds.
It reminds me of small town shopping, this is definitely not the place if you are interested in design or style. Loads and Loads of gadgets and clutter, buy it today– yard sale in 6 months. It’s been open 4 months and desperately needs a renovation with someone who knows design.
If BBB disappeared no one would care. Most of what they sell can be bought at Canadian Tire, Sears or a Dollar Store.

I’d say this is by far the biggest one that I’ve been to and has some of the best selections. There’s always something you’ll find interesting at this location. I found a great scale for $ 30 with a nice patterned design on it; as well as some great little things from that As Seen on TV line that I would like to purchase for gifts probably this season.
Their return policy is also amazing — even if it’s opened, or used they’d still take it so that’s pretty good in my eyes even compared to other stores their return policy is a lot better considering some places are 7 – 30 days, etc.
I would recommend this location to a friend as I’m sure anyone would love to come shopping here and find more than what they’re looking for hence their title — «and Beyond»…

OK, I’ll admit I’m a bit of a Toronto snob, but I really went in here with an open mind to the ways of the big box store… but this place is just too much for me to handle. Stepping into BB&B feels like you just went through a space warp (or wormhole, for Trekkies) into the farthest reaches of Mississauga. It’s humongous, with painfully bright lighting and a generally depressing, soul-​crushing ambiance. On the plus side, the staff were very friendly (when locatable).
For now, this city boy is sticking with overpriced department stores and hit-​or-​miss dollar stores for his housewares needs.

Decided to check this place out because I had a few kichen items and a b-​day present to buy for a cooking enthusiast.
First off the store is EXPANSIVE and litterally jam packed with stuff. Floor to ceiling packed. Upon entering the store, you see products displayed from every department, with no particular rhyme or reason. Once you make your way through the entrance and the random products you’ll find yourself in the kitchen gadget section… which is fantastic… I had 2 things to get and they had them… so that’s all good.
Now, as I’ve said they have a lot of stuff, so you’re guaranteed to find what you’re looking for, HOWEVER, finding a price tag on most of the stuff was the greatest challenge. I must have asked a sales associate for a price on something at least a dozen times. Seriously?! A shopping trip that should have taken 30 minutes took twice as long. I was shopping with a friend and it became a bit of joke for us because everytime I picked up something to find a price tag there wasn’t one. I’m sure the sales associates started to think we were doing it on purpose, but we weren’t.
I could totally understand this happening if they’d only been open a couple of weeks, as they work out the kinks, but this was a week ago!
I will go back because they had a great selection and the prices were ok, hopefully they’ll have prices on their stuff next time.

I really wasn’t prepared for what I was getting myself into by coming to this place.
First off, the company website said they were located in College Park. This was confusing as they are technically the building south which I believe is being called the Aura Building or something like that anyways. None the less, upon actually finding this place on Yonge, we made our way in and upstairs to the second floor to begin our shopping adventure.
First impressions: «Whoa, look at all this stuff!»
Seriously, the first few racks and shelves have no rhyme or reason of the items on their shelves. Its a little confusing and a little daunting at first, but once you make it a bit further, things start to take more logical form in the sense of going from kitchen goods into living room goods and cleaning products, and then into bedrooms, etc. Thats also when you start to realize that you have more stuff that your arms will carry. Finding shopping carts or baskets seemed near impossible until we flagged a worked who was nice enough as to go and get one for us.
And then, the real shopping began. Because the place has so much variety in goods, you can’t help but want to look at everything. So plan ahead, a what I expected to be in and out within an hour had us realize almost 90 minutes in that our parking would expire soon.
In the end, I walked out with a few kitchen gadgets, neat smelling soaps, and a bunch of Christmas gifts for my mom. Not exactly deals on pricing, but the one-​off nature of the items made it seem fair and justifiable. On the flip side, looking at the high costs of things like shower organizers and dishware, makes you also appreciate the Ikeas and even Honest Eds, Walmarts, etc of the world for the dime a dozen type houseware stuff that doesn’t need individuality.

I was really looking forward to my trip here as this place’s claim to fame is the largest store of its kind in Canada.
The setup has the space to substantiate this claim, however it leaves a lot to be desired.
The place is suitably bright and is full of items from Bed Bath and Beyond!
I spent my time walking around first and spent an hour or so in this store. Sure they have all the bases covered and if you need an item from this kind of store they probably have it. However even with the 20% off promo they are priced around the Bay Store option.
I decided to put the staff through their paces and asked them very specific questions and sadly the staff in some areas is not up to par. I guess we can attribute it to teething problems but they should be more service oriented and if they don’t know about something they should ask someone else more experienced instead of resorting to the we don’t have it routine.
The sad part is I was able to find something similar to what I was looking for myself even though the sales person had given up.
They ought to learn from the smaller operation a few minutes away on what service is about, sure they have the raw variety to put the little guy out of business but what I learned in business is The way to beat Bobby Fischer is do not play chess with him!
While they have Bed and Bath Covered its the Beyond that scares me, kudos to the people who get the family guy reference here :)
2.5 Stars

Don’t let the name deceive you. You might think walking in here you’ve stumbled into a Kitchen Stuff Plus but they just start you off with the «Beyond» and as you wander through you get to the Bed and Bath parts.
The store is HUGE. It’s the largest in Canada apparently and it’s fitting since it’s built in what will soon be Canada’s tallest residential building. About ¹⁄₃ of the store is kitchenware, then a section of dinning, pet supplies, and toys, followed by about ¼ of the store being bed and the last bit bath and seasonal. The check-​out area is gigantic. There is a long maze to walk through filled with impulse buy products as you make your way to the till. There’s 15 cash registers so you’ll get through in no time.
Customer service was great. There were a ton of staff on hand and if someone didn’t know the answer to my question they asked someone who did to get me the answer.
Being the first week that they’re open, they were handing out a coupon at the door for 20% off one item in your purchase and pushing you to sign up for their newsletter to receive additional coupons in the future. I bought a spoon and a spoon rest so my 20% wasn’t well used on my $ 13.00 purchase. Guess I should have gone for the $ 180 bed sheets.

great location lots of stock to choose from
convenient to stop on my way home and right now they are giving out 10% off fliers
been a few times now and really like this store