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Lots of clothing items and books. Decent furniture selections too which other Savers lack. However pricing is quite expensive considering it’s an op shop. Branded clothing range from $18-22 which is shocking. I’ve also seen items priced more than the original sticker!
Pre-bagged books seem great until you get home and open the bag to find out they are all destroyed inside and useless they are so damaged! They're selling Big W tops the same price or more than what they are new, same with belts they're cheaper at Kmart new. Book prices have gone up so much nobody is touching the shelves. Almost $5 for a dirty old cookbook? No thanks! Hanger container was overflowing at the checkout but the kid "supervising" with his vacant expression seemed to be unaware. Lots of staff standing around talking about how they'd style items they want to buy from the racks, and talking about their personal lives, seems like a cushy job.
Not a very good Savers store here. Can't fault the pricing, it is affordable. There aren't as many $15+ tees compared to other Savers stores but there's lots of dime a dozen department store and local sports team clothing. Also a poor selection of toys and board games, range has been consistently bad for a while now. Homewares and bric a brac are well priced. Bundled up themed cups - $5 for four and when you compare to other stores who'd do $10+, that is impressive. I wouldn't go out of your way to visit this one to be honest and despite being more reasonable with pricing, it's definitely in the lowest tier of Savers stores alongside the Moorabbin outlet.
Firstly Savers is NOT an OpShop, it's a Retailer ReSeller of PreLoved & PreLived in Clothes, Accessories, Homewares, Furniture, Toys, Other Misc items, Books & DVDs. Basically they make profits from Donated items and then make a contribution from their profits to the charity of their choosing. Pretty Genius Business Model, whoever came up with it!?! 🤣😆😅 💸💲💰 The Savers in Carrum is very well situated & visible to passing traffic being so close to the local Bunnings store. So there is plenty of 🚗🚘CarParking and they're Very Genourous with Opening Hours being : *Monday to Fridays 9am - 7pm *Saturday 9am - 6pm *Sunday 10am - 6pm [ These hours are current as at the time of this Review ] It is Large in scale, nothing at all like a cute OpShop, it feels more like a Giant Clearance Centre of PreLoved items. The Atmospehere is warehouse like a kind of Costco with plenty of Customers piling trolleys full of stuff, cruising the aisles like hungry sharks. 🦈🤣 Fyi, once you pay for purchases the Trolley has to be left in the Bay next to the Exit doors. Customers cannot take trolleys to their car. Must carry all goods to yr car...So park close to the Entrance if this is an issue. 👍🚘🛒 For the purist OpShop tragics, I'm not sure this will be your 'Happy Place' but it's always worth checking out at least once. The 50% Off Clothing Sales is worth seeing, albeit a lot of people are there at that same time and the sound of coat hangers being pushed along racks by a hundred people, in a large space that echos, along with the Blasting radio is annoying. But the fun of finding some unexpected Treasure/s is worth it and we had fun and some good laughs together with Mum & her friend. 🛍️🛒 To summarise I find the quality of Clothes in suburban local Op shops to be mostly better, in variety, prices, clealiness and less worn out condition, compared to what I saw here. As some of the stuff stuff looked & was actually grubby & a bit like it could have come from a Hard Rubbish collection. 🚮😅 With dubious stains on some items... But there's also defintely some unexpectedly good finds in amongst all of it and attached fotos of things which Mum & I lked and purchased and we're really happy with. 👍🥰
Savers Carrum Downs is a huge store. Loads of furniture and homewares... not high on quality but ticks the box. The volume of clothes and books is overwhelming so leave plenty of time to browse. There's something for everyone, even a decent used jewellery section.
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