The Bargain Stop

Great, cheap deals on home items. I bought several cleaning supplies and most were under a dollar. They also have cute little items like cupcake liners and mini Chinese food containers that would be great for gifts. I’ll definitely be back again.

I spent 50 dollars just on hangers! How did that happen? ;)

I’ve been shopping at the Bargain store for years and it is fantastic.
Lately, I’ve been buying area rugs. I bought small classic-​style rectangle and circular rugs. They are very pretty and inexpensive.
They have a little bit of everything. I’ve gotten sheets, towels, curtains and curtain extension rods. I’ve bought T-​shirts and exercise pants. Over the years I’ve depended on them for plastic organizing bins and for various kitchen utensils. I recently bought computer connecting wire. For summer they have shoes and sunglasses. For winter they have a great selection of hats and earmuffs. At Christmas they have decorations and gift bags.
Downstairs they have all kinds of tools and things like bungee cords, wrenches, screwdrivers. And they have those plastic champagne glasses that are fun for office parties! They have a good selection of cups, glasses, vases, and plates. I get all my straws there (straws?) and cheap plastic spoons — for the yogurt I bring to work.
Oh and the silk laundry bags they sell outside on the sidewalk are super useful and inexpensive.
The Bargain Store is my fun go-​to place.

This place is great if you can’t get to home goods or BBB. But they follow you around the store like your going to steal something. I look far from being a criminal but I sure felt like one. Maybe install video surveillance instead of having people up your ass the entire time your checking out the shower curtains. I actually wanted to turn around and ask if he wanted to pick my shit out for me. Lol

Great place for random knick knacks. I’ve stopped by multiple times and always walk out with about $ 5 bucks of stuff that I’ve been needing. Its not the best quality, but for the price, it gets the job done.
They carry everything. The store is PACKED with stuff — sometimes to the point where you can’t walk through it, but hey, gives you a variety of everything.

As the name suggests, they really do have the best bargains in town. Everything from toothpaste and hiking boots, to a set of wine glasses and window curtains. This place slashes prices on everything. Literally… they sell EVERYTHING! They even have a furniture store next door!
Anyway, this one stop home goods convenience store does have a caveat at times:
Quality.
Honestly it’s hit or miss with a lot of things here. I mean I’ve never bought any of their hiking boots, shoes, jeans, or socks so I’m no expert there hahaha.
But for instance, their bathroom products, like floor mats, shower curtains, soap dispensers, toothbrush holders, etc… have lasted very well over the last year.
On the other hand, their $ 15 foldable beach chair? Not so much. Had it for a week and was sitting on my roof when the chair collapsed in on itself. I only weigh 175 lbs people. Come on!
In the end, many people would say «you get what you paid for», but there are actually a surprising amount of good quality items, at bargain prices, that make this place worth the stop. Just choose wisely my fellow Unilocalers!
Things I’d highly recommend:
— Garbage cans
— Bamboo cutting board
— Doormat
— Bathroom floor mat
— Mason Jars
— Scotch glasses
— Window blinds
— Shower curtains and liners

Great place to get cheap home goods and random necessities. The space is quite cluttered and hard to maneuver, and the staff are always watching you with hawk-​like eyes to prevent you from shoplifting (which always results in an annoyingly uncomfortable shopping experience). They have a fairly wide array of stuffs, with everything from dishware to slippers to power cords, though the quality is not always great. Still, for the price, there’s not much to complain about. If you move to Astoria, this will quickly become your go-​to place for home goods. They do accept credit cards but I remember them having a minimum of $ 10 or so. One of the things I still trek to Astoria for are their pashminas. They sell really cheap (around $ 3 – 4) pashminas come fall/​wintertime. They’re nice and silky (not the cheap acrylic knockoffs), but they’re thinner than some of the nicer quality pashminas I own. Still, great bargain!
There is also a Bargain Stop Home store right next door to the main store. The Home store sells furniture, lighting, storage, rugs, sheets, etc. and all for similarly low prices. They have a nice selection of rugs for cheap prices (though not the best in quality) and their chairs/​stools are usually a steal.
Merchandise: ³⁄₅ — wide selection and decent quality most of the time
Prices: ⁴⁄₅ — reliably cheap most of the time
Service: ²⁄₅ — the staff will annoyingly hover over you and follow you with their hawk-​like gaze in their attempts to replace cameras
Atmosphere: ²⁄₅ — cluttered, claustrophobic, dusty, and crowded
Overall: ³⁄₅ — good

****This review is for The Bargain Stop HOME store, their furniture outlet next door to the main storefront.
Right off the bat: there’s stuff stacked from top to bottom and in every nook and cranny of the store. Claustrophobics and clutter-​phobics, you may want to take a Xanax upon entering, but I promise — the low prices and lovely service will make it all worth it!
I had done a lot of shopping around for furniture when I first moved (and tried almost all of the highest rated furniture «outlets» in the neighborhood), but I always found the best prices here. After taking a few trips, I ended up buying frames, a hanging mirror, and a dresser. When I asked about their delivery policy for the dresser, the guys at the store offered to build and deliver it — same day and FREE OF CHARGE! I got it a few hours after I’d paid for it. Hard to beat that!
It’s hard to know what they’ll have at any one time, so it can be hit or miss. But stop in every few weeks or so, and I guarantee you’ll find something you’ve been looking for — at a great price.

This place is great for every single «oops-​I-​need-​a» moment. Every. Single. One. Because they have EVERYTHING.
Yes, it’s not all top quality, and not everything looks cute. But for cheap, functional items, this is one of your best bets in the burrough.
It IS a little crowded in here. But who comes to a bargain store for a luxury shopping experience?! Overall, a great Astoria odds n ends shopping spot.

This place is amazeballz!!! U can’t ask for anything more when it comes to one stop shopping. And the kitchen section is great. So many options and the prices perfect!

I went here the other day to finally purchase a rice cooker, a device that is incredibly difficult to find in Astoria and knew that if there was one place in Astoria that had this cooking device, it would be bargain stop.
This was not my first time at Bargain Stop and I have bought many items from there in the past and don’t get me wrong, I love this place. I really do. It holds anything from clothing to. well… a rice cooker and it’s very very affordable. However, this place is also quite cramped. Like stifling cramped. Like wow, I can’t get down this aisle because there is a ton of stuff in the way. So cramped, that you can’t get down the aisle when someone else is going down the aisle as well. It’s terrible. And definitely detracts from some of the positives about this place.
So yeah, in conclusion, this place has a lot of stuff that is pretty cheap that basically clogs a lot of this place, thus making it quite difficult to go through the aisles or explore the store

Place is a cheap dirty Bed Bath and Beyond. Their products are competitive and its always a great place to pick up odds and ends that don’t cost much. I look at them as the perfect one stop shop in Astoria and the owners have always been great.
Don’t buy electronics or appliances there, but anything that doesn’t require electricity seems to stand up for the test of time for the cost.

I like this joint. It’s more of a 3.5-star review like… and if they had a better selection of the things they stock, I’d round up to a 4-​star review. Still, you always get friendly service. They bag check guy some times let’s me slip through now that I’ m a regular, and it’s really a good option in the area for inexpensive household needs.

Great spot to pick up all kinds of household items. I’ve shopped here on numerous occasions. Just got back from there today. I picked up 2 shower curtains, 1 neoprene oven mitt and pot holder, 1 cotton oven mitt and pot holder, 1 four tier shirt hanger, 1 pack of envelopes and a protor silex iron, and I spent $ 40.53 on everything, the iron being most expensive at $ 20.
4 stars for great prices, –1 star because the aisles are really narrow and you can roll the little shopping basket through most aisles so I kinda had to leave it off to the side while i walked through the narrow aisles.

Great place where you can find almost everything you need for your house. Household supplies, kitchen & bath accessories, home decoration stuff, etc…
Quality is usually low, but the prices are extremely cheap.
If you need something and you can’t find it anywhere else, just go to the Bargain Stop and they will probably have it!

Amazing find. I love houseware sort of shops like Bed Bath and Beyond and Rainbow Ace. The Bargain Stop is, of course, a little lower in quality, but the prices are crazy cheap. I went here to buy a TEMPORARY shower curtain for $ 2 until I could go «real» home shopping. But it’s been doing just fine, I may just use it as my actual shower curtain.
Anyway, aside from that, I picked up some cute cheap glasses/​mugs, room spray, and other random items that you always need so you don’t feel as bad buying. Checkout staff was friendly. It’s just a short walk from my apartment, so I’m sure I’ll be back whenever I need cleaning supplies or basically anything.

I have been coming here for the last 3 years or so and this place is awesome. If your looking for household supplies on the cheap, laundry stuff, kitchen nick knacks, hoodies, t-​shirts or just about anything this is the place to go.
Now this is not «Bed, Bath and Beyond» and the quality is not top tier, but if you are an astute consumer your going to find some gems. I am a fan of their glassware, $ 1 pint glasses. I like their diner style plates for a couple of bucks, those big oval ones.
I don’t know how these guys pay their bills; this place is huge and with cheap prices and deals, all the best. Credit card minimum $ 5. No cash refunds, store credit only.
If you are on a budget or just looking for cheap deals this is your kind of place. It has something for everyone, but be smart on your purchases.

These guys are here to bail you out.
You have a friend coming over and you need a fresh towel? Maybe slippers? Your bathroom reeks from your accidents and you need scented candles? Wall paintings? They got you. For a much cheaper price than you’d expect.
It doesn’t matter what you need; chances are you can find it here.
I also found the service here to be plenty helpful, despite other opinions in other reviews.

You get what you pay for.
I love that this place has super cheap stuff. Whenever I’m tight on cash I can swing by and pickup things like leggings, socks, kitchen gadgets, wrapping paper, bath mats or whatever else you can think of.
The guy at the front is not very helpful. He is mostly there to make sure people don’t bring their shopping bags through the store. But if you ask him where an item is, he usually says they don’t sell it when they really do. Maybe he just doesn’t speak English very well.
Overall I woud recommend Bargain Stop.

As the name implies, you can make a lot of bargains at this store. I previously wrote a review for Williams & Sonoma, which I find way too pricey for most of their items, so Bargain Stop is the perfect place for a cheapskate like myself.
The store is pretty big, but since it’s packed with over stuffed shelves and containers, it feels cramed and small. Easy to knock something over just passing through the aisle.
I’ve heard that some people need to show their hand bags and that the staff check you when you browse. It never happened to me. But it’s kind of weird that they feel the need to do that. I don’t see staff doing that in fancy stores on 5^th avenue, so why is it necessary in a cheapskate dollar store out in Queens?
Well anyway, they have pretty much all that kind of stuff that the general consumer might need for their home, such as glass, kitchen ware, paper, bags, vases, etc. As other reviewers have mentioned, not high quality stuff, but decent enough.
The lines can get pretty long here at times.