FleaMart

*Experienced flea market shopper here: so this place is actually really unique for a «flea market». They have a grocery section!!! I priced checked several items such as diapers, baby wipes, cat food, chips… most things came in atleast $ 2 – 3 under the Wal-​Mart price. So that’s cool. I didn’t really look at the expiration dates. so yeah… check that.
Then you have booths rented out to various venders like a normal flea market. I was actaully impressed with most of the booths. They were organized and not overbearing and for the most part good finds… not just junk.
But the real kicker is the furniture section in the back. Apparently all the furniture is new, shipped in from trucks like Ashley and Wayfair. I guess it’s extras that weren’t sold at the stores. Kind of like a Ross or TJ Max for furniture and décor.
Even the used furniture in the front was great. Beautiful couches and chairs, everywhere.
I just happened to stumble upon this place after walking out of Hyvee. Unfortunately it was an hour before they closed, could have easily spent an entire day there. I’ll be back.

I visit this location about once a month.
While I frequent antique stores and estate sales, this is actually the only Flea Market I’ve ever been to…
The following will be observations, not necessarily comparisons:
The place is HUGE. There are so many booths jammed packed full of anything you can think of. I can easily waste an entire afternoon rummaging through other people’s junk. I enjoy trying to find cute coffee mugs or Alvin and the Chipmunk VHS tapes.
I find that most of the booth owner’s prices are pretty high. When I walk in here, I expect to find garage sale prices if not cheaper.
For example: I was on Amazon the other week looking for a necklace organizer/​holder. I found one for $ 14.99. The next day, I went to the FleaMarket, and much to my surprise, there was a booth with the exact same necklace holder! BUT at the exact same price as Amazon, $ 14.99.
Sometimes the owners of the booth’s will be there organizing their stuff, and when you walk past their booth, they will harass you and try to get you to buy their stuff. (like those super annoying kiosks at the mall). Do they do this at every FleaMarket?
Every single time I visit, the front register is manned with at least 6 very, very young teenage boys. (16 – 18 years old). Having a huge group of young boys running a Flea Market can both a pro and a con, I suppose. I’m still not sure how I feel about it.
Those are my random thoughts of the FleaMarket on 40 Highway.

Well, I believe the mannequin butt explains it all, in the picture. Miles and miles and miles of booth containing nothing but crap from god knows where, and it’s all under the roof at the Fleamarket.
When I say miles, I mean it. There’s thousands of booths, and there’s shopping carts that you go up each humongous aisle, and you choose from socks (all the same brand and size) to a cowboy boot wall hanging made of Budweiser Beer cans, to DVD’s and VHS tapes, old books, old magazines, boxes of crackers, t-​shirts, and one booth even had boxes of hospital issues kotexes for maternity… awe, just the stuff white people like.
It would take a day to go through each and every booth, and then some. The half a mannequin did it for me, and I was gone. If your looking for a free Flea market, this is the place. They sell booths, and I don’t know the prices, but I think it’s very affordable. 2 stars for it’s kind of grossness, but I should give it 4 for it’s oddness.