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99c Only Stores

// November 22nd, 2009 // I Love LA.

I love the 99c Store!  It’s the most well-known store in Los Angeles where you can walk in with $12 and leave with a bar of lime scented soap, cherry lipstick, a can of olives, a jar of salsa, tortillas, a bag of corn chips, red onions, a can of refried beans, a scented vanilla candle, and a box of Duncan Hines chocolate chip cookie mix, as well as the last minute impulse splurge on Drip Feeder food for your houseplant or doggie treats for your little snobby Los Angeles chihuahua.

 

Recently as I was happily exploring a vast array of aisles and shelves containing deeply discounted brand-name merchandise.  I happened across a teeny tiny Sporty Spice action figure that I hadn’t seen in stores since I was a kid.  Omg, it was so cute!  Naturally, I snatched it up to send to my little sister who we’d nicknamed after that very Spice Girls band member.  That’s not why I’d gone to the 99c Store, though.  I live within a 3-mile radius of 6 of their stores so I’d stopped in for a peek and was pleasantly surprised to find baby soft toilet paper selling by the roll of four, Colgate toothpaste, and Irish Spring bath soap by the twos, all for 99c each. 

 

While Trader Joe’s is still the best store in Los Angeles to buy high quality inexpensive organic foods (and the top place I’d recommend getting your meats, milk, bread and cheese from), the 99c store carries a lot of name brand canned goods and cake mixes, tortillas and personal hygiene items as well as shipments of random fresh produce Saturday and Thursday morning, the overflow produce that the standard grocery stores had too much of in inventory already.  Of course, you won’t find the Kardashian sisters in there as the more wealthy LAites tend to avoid such stores.  But I go there, mingling with the more thrifty (and/or broke) Mexican-American, Anglo Saxon and other Los Angelenos. 

 

“The Right Store… Now More Than Ever.”  Their timeless yet eerily perfect slogan.  Tonight I plan on a quick stop to pave the road for a refreshing shower.  Hooray!  My glossy red lips will glow in the flame of a heavenly candle with my nose taking in the smell of vanilla, a casual dinner laid before me, followed by a moist chocolate chip cookie while my evergreen herbaceous perennial happily gets its drink on.  Oh, and I can also buy some dish soap, a broom and bathroom cleaner for an extra $3 and clean up my little LA apartment.  I won’t say that it needs it “now more than ever” cause that would be corny and we LAites avoid high fructose corn syrup and other such corn-related items.