Dollar Tree

I’m giving the Santa Clara store a ⁵⁄₅ stars because of Patricia and John and Christian. I forgot Christians brothers name, but he is wonderful too!

This place is a lot larger than the dollar trees I have been too. There are year-​round holiday decorations and items for sale. Seriously, there was 2 huge aisles for valentine’s day and one aisle for st. patrick’s. Just incredible.

I frequent Big Mug Coffee Roaster next door all the time to grab a latte, study and just chill but sometimes I’m craving some snacks and the Dollar Tree is my go-​to place to get candy or chips. I usually just get sour patch kids, but to be honest, the dollar store has some very useful items. Maybe not the most durable or long-​lasting things, but hey, for a dollar, you shouldn’t jump the gun with the high expectations. I can spend probably a good 30 minutes in this store because there’s just a bunch of things I’d hoard on home like my momma and I used to do when I was in elementary school. I actually go here for Christmas wrapping paper sometimes and other holiday/​festive items. Not so shabby! Their things are actually pretty cute.
All in all, it’s your standard Dollar Tree. A lot better than most 99 cent or dollar stores in my opinion.

Good store for party supplies, decorations, gift bags, greeting cards, kitchen essentials, storage box, towels, storage bags at a very less price.

The line is literally to the back of the store and there is only one register open, one of the employees is walking around or blowing up balloons which i’m sure can wait until the line is down. This store needs more employees, it’s the holidays so it’s bound to be crowded daily. People are literally leaving their items behind and walking out.

I like shopping at $Tree, good deal! This store, however, doesn’t get the new products earlier or faster than Sunnyvale store. It is always crowded and sometimes you wait a bit in the line. During the holiday season, the shelves are in mess. Sometimes the products that I look are not in stock, but I dont have any problem with employees here. They are nice and talkative!

Walked in and they did not have any hand baskets. When I asked where they were they said they were being used by other customers. There was hardly anyone there and I did not see one customer with a hand basket. I did however see many hand baskets being used to hold merchandise. I only needed a few small things and did want to push those annoying carts around the store. Oh well.

Not too sure if I’m in on a bad day, but everyone is in such a bad mood here. The customers, the employees. Everyone is getting worked up and aggressive so easily. I feel a bit worried and intimidated being here.

Ahh the dollar tree *comes in for one thing* **grabs cart** I love dollar tree! A bunch of useless things that I know will come in handy… Or not but its only $ 1!!! Why not! Go crazy!
Usually come here for house supplies, school supplies, and whenever I’m feeling crafty!
The parking lot here isn’t that great, depending on what time you come. Weekends and after 5 are usually packed due to other restaurant around the area.
I don’t recommend using their bathroom because it’s pretty gross.

The cashier was so rude to her customers in line! Her name is Cariann! I was so upset, I moved to the other line to Heathers register. Altho she was robotic with her, «hello do you need a bag’ with no smile looking like she dislikes her job, it’s better than listening to disrespect. The store was well stocked and clean. I love this location… There’s no need to disrespect Customers, that’s what made Unilocal my experience.

Store is not great with collection, but staff here is really good and willing to help.
I don’t remember the name, but one man working here accompanied me to the car to help me unload glass stuff i bought and waited patiently for me.
Really appreciate it.

This is one of those places where you can get by with speaking El espanol and no English!, as everything is uno dollar!
Each Dollar Tree is a little bit different. I’ve been to Dollar Tree in Los Banos and stocked up on one liter Mexican apple Juice –what? Apple juice from Mexico? Of course they didn’t say the juice was from Mexico, except in small letters. And if it had been from Washington state, the letters would have been all over the container, jumbo size!
I’ve gotten one liter Mexican mango nectar and guava nectar from Dollar Tree in Sunnyvale. Today they don’t have them –sold out on the weekend.
I grab one of the scarce shopping carts. These carts have one of those locks on the rear wheels so that you don’t take them from the store. Tells you something about the clientele here and the homeless people stealing the carts. There goes the neighborhood!
I get eight 4oz tubes of EAD sun screen. EAD? Never heard of it before. Turns out it was produced in the United Arab Emerates, shown in small letters. This will last me 2 years. of playing tennis, with spf 15 – 35. Really hard to find sun screen at most Dollar Tree stores.
Next, I get six 150 yard waxed Assure dental floss. This will last me 3 years if I don’t yank on the string too hard around my teeth.
I get six 6 oz Naturally Select tropical trail mix of dried bananas, coconuts, pineapple, papaya, raisins and dates. Nowhere else can I get that kind of trail mix for uno dollar. This stuff will last me about 3 weeks.
I also get 4 bags of 5 oz Homestyle Select kettle chips, and 4 bags of 6 oz regular potato chips –where else can you get 6 oz of potato chips for uno dollar?! 1oz of potato chips will cost you $ 1.50 at Subway down the street.
5 oz cheddar cheese popcorn is also on sale for uno dollar, although I’m not that hot about cheddar cheese.
Don’t need toilet paper as otherwise I would get the 2 ply 4 roll packages, but the wife says they are too rough for her. Come on princess, how can you be so picky about toilet paper?!
And I don’t get the 32 oz Ruby Kist grapefruit drinks –way too much corn syrup with that nasty aftertaste –I like the Ocean Spray grapefruit drinks with pure cane sugar!
Most of the people in line speak Spanish, as does the clerk. This is the one place where many people pay with cash, and not with credit cards. And I would not be surprised if this is because they get paid in cash at their workplaces.
As I go out the door to my car, an attractive young lady follows me. Unfortunately it’s not the wife and she’s not interested in an old fart like me, but my shopping cart!

Sunday 02/​22/​2015 11:15am the large size woman at the casher was very rude. My hands were full, i had my toddler with me so I asked for the cart, she said you cannot take it to the car. When I asked her to check other stores for something, she told me to do it yourself. Every other time I have been there they have let me take the cart to my car and have called other store locations when I have asked.

Wait is way to long at registers. 20 plus mini two buy a few things. Mgrs don’t care about wait

Cheap merchandise, I’m OK with that. When one enters a «dollar store» one has expectations of a certain level of merchandise. What I did not expect is being checked out at the register by an employee wearing a full coverage burka. Head to toe unrecognizable– wearing her glasses on the outside of her face veil. It was so off-​putting that I put down items I had intended to buy — and I walked out. This woman is free (?) to wear whatever she wants. Not my business. Dollar Tree is free to hire anyone they want. Not my business. I am free to react in a negative way when I am expected to purchase items from a person who hides her identity. Politically incorrect of me? I don’t agree. We communicate our intent to each other by means of facial expression. I will not set foot in that store again.

This Dollar Tree was next door to CVS so I figured, what the heck. I’ll look around.
And boy was I surprised.
Quite a bit of the Dollar Tree’s items are high quality. I usually spend 5 – 10 dollars on hair bands and here, 99 cents for the same style.
While they lack most of my brand name items they’re great for birthdays and movie theater candy, items 50 cents to dollars cheaper than next door at CVS.
While they wouldn’t be my one stop shop, they are a great resource if you’re on a budget and need low priced bulk items. Especially if they carry the brand name items you use.
All in all, I definitely like this location and will probably be back for more hair bands: D

It’s really sad because we have a favorite Korean restaurant that we go to often and then love to go to the Dollar Tree next door. We never had a problem with this store until today. We were in a good mood that night, celebrating my birthday and then a haircut, all in that same plaza. My wife first goes in with our two children. She is approached by the store manager, a dirty blonde lady in her fifties, that my wife is to keep an eye on the children so they don’t make a mess. My wife told me this when I later came into the store and we thought how odd it was for her to tell us this when the children weren’t even making a mess.
First, we have a 1 year old child that can barely walk, so what kind of mess can he make? Second, we have a 2 year old child that was busy playing with her lollipop that she received after I got a haircut next door.
Then, my wife leaves the store with our 1 year old child to put him in the car and I’m getting ready to pay for the items with my 2 year old child, who is still playing with her lollipop. I am approached by that same manager to make sure I keep an eye on my child because if she makes a mess, «she has to clean up the mess and she doesn’t want to do that.» That is now twice that she warned us.
When I was at the cash register, I kindly told her it was not courteous of her telling me to watch my children TWICE when they weren’t making a mess. She then tells me it’s «store policy.» Huh? It would be common courtesy of the customers to watch their children though, which we did. I asked her if she saw my children make a mess, and then she tells me she did. On my way out the store, she is still arguing with me and she is VERY lucky I was with my 2 year old child or else I would’ve really spoken my mind out.
My wife is outraged because of the manager falsely accusing our children of making a mess. She goes back in and asked her if she saw our children make a mess and she replied no. Huh? So she is a liar as well. I hope they have cameras there so we can prove our point.
If my kids really did make a mess, I’m ok with her telling me. But to approach us twice without making a mess? That seems like discrimination to me! I will definitely being going to corporate and making sure this case gets settled and that no one else gets discriminated like that. I even kindly apologized to the male cashier about my argument with the manager because I didn’t want to be falsely accused of something that didn’t happen and didn’t want to put him at wrong.
This manager definitely needs to work on her people skills and concentrate on her job in doing all she can to make sure that customers leave the store satisfied. Instead, she decides to argue with us until we take our last step out the door. First falsely accusing me and then telling my wife, «yeah, you get out of this store!» Wow! Never coming back here again or possibly any Dollar Tree stores. They really need to train their managers better than this. As a manager, that is a sad representation of this store and not a good way to show your staff on how to treat customers. I don’t know if she was just having a bad day or just not a happy type of person, but she’s got issues.

Moving into a new house can lead you into the buying trap. New furniture. Home repair. Stuff you need, and stuff you don’t. (Hello, wifey)
After spending so much money on and for my new home, it sucks to spend more on all the little things. Fortunately, my new local Dollar Tree has me covered, with most of the little things I need at a price that can’t be beat.
Like 9V batteries for backup power in my sprinkler control system — 2 for $ 1, the cheapest price I’ve seen anywhere. Or paint rollers and brushes to help me give that ugly fireplace a facelift. Sponges and cleaning supplies. Seeds for planting in the garden. And high fiber cereal, because I’m getting old and have to worry about my cholesterol.
And you can get plastic bags at checkout here, as Santa Clara is one of the few cities in Silicon Valley that hasn’t banned them. Aw heck yeah!

Huge location, and everything’s a dollar! Love the Dollar Tree chain as opposed to some others, like Dollar General or Family Dollar, where prices are not all a dollar and you get shafted on some purchases.
Selection was decent here, though the back to school teacher supply area has been raided so I missed out on some of the materials I’d planned to pick up. Good selection of kids toys, activities, games, and puzzles.
Customer service was odd here. Many employees were stocking shelves and arranging displays during my visit, but only two super slow registers were open. Some staff doing stocking were super noisy, throwing things around roughly and loudly rolling carts into and out of the back employee stocking area– it was very loud and distracting.
Most peculiar thing I noticed was an older Asian guy mean-​mugging the cashier from the front of the store. I suspect he was a manager or something, though he lacked a name tag and the cashier herself never addressed him. The whole experience of her slowly and silently ringing up items as he aggressively scowled at her, was strange and awkward.
Will be coming back in a few weeks for fall décor and Halloween supplies! Girls fairy wings and tiaras already stocked, plenty of scarecrows and inflatable bats, skeletons, etc for the picking!

This Dollar Tree store is kinda hidden Off the beaten path. Unlike most dollar store this one is not pack, (maybe cuz i got earlier in the moring) No one is ever in line before me.
The items and shelves are nicely stocked, Isle are wide and everything in order.
I usually get the snacks here and sometimes I just look around that just catches my eye.
I can spend $ 20 and come out buying the whole store :)