Victor’s 99 Cent Outlet

Awesome items for awesome prices. The wife and I love shopping here.

This place sucks. Closing up 10 minutes early!!!

They carry a lot of items including everything from gift wrap to moisturizer to food to costumes. It’s a mish mash of everything under one roof. I didn’t look at everything but I did walk up and down quite a few of the aisles. I went there for fly swatters. I thought it was an awesome deal since they were only a dollar or so, but one broke as soon as I got home and swatted a fly. So I guess you get what you pay for.
Tips: If you get food, I’d check the expiration dates. Also, the parking lot is small and sketchy looking.

SCARY… this place scared me. I was in the area and thought I would try out this place instead of the 99 Cents Only store in Clairemont Town Square. BIG MISTAKE. This place was super ghetto. I gave it a chance and purchased a few things. But it was a total mess being poorly lit and product all over the floors. Prices weren’t clearly marked and it didn’t feel like a great deal on the majority of things.
You know it’s a bad experience when you feel bad for the employees… The guy behind me in line didn’t want to wait, so he just put money on the counter and took his drink. WTF?! We all have to wait in line. Why does this dude think he’s so special? The poor cashier looked scared and helpless. I felt bad for her.
Serves me right for not reading Unilocal reviews first… Definitely drive a mile or so to the 99 Cents Only store in Clairemont Town Square which is organized, well-​lit and a pleasant bargain shopping experience.

Okay, that’s enough. This little puke isn’t getting away with it anymore. This store’s a little shitheap V-​Outlet even shittier than the rest of the chain (and if you’ve ever been in a V-​Outlet, you know they’re dismal), that routinely closes 10 to 15 minutes before their posted closing time. I’m guessing this is for the convenience of the rude Russian snot who’s the clerk at closing time.
A couple of weeks ago I tried to go in there at about a quarter ’til 9 for one stupid little item. What I wanted was behind the counter, and I wanted to see their selection, but he got really testy with me and the other half dozen people in there who had the absolute nerve to be shopping in an OPEN store when he wanted to go home. If he’d just shut up, let me see their merchandise and rung everyone up, instead of huffing and bitching at everyone, he’d have been closed up by 9, no problem.
Incidentally, on that occasion, I left and took my business to another store that also closes at 9. It was just about closing time when I got to the other store, so I politely asked if I could still come in, and not only did the clerk welcome me in, she helped me get what I wanted so we could all get out faster. It took maybe 3 minutes, if that.
Tonight I went in for another small item. I knew right where it was, what it cost, and what I wanted. (Black shimmer eyeliner. $ 1.99. Makeup counter, twelve feet to the left of the front door, by the register.) I was paying cash. I walked in with about 10 minutes until closing. This time, I wasn’t even allowed to come in. They had already shut down the register.
I understand that when people come in at 8:58 and want to buy a cart full, it’s rude and a huge pain in the butt for the employees. I would never do that, I always ask if it’s okay to make a small purchase if I’m on the cusp of the store closing. It’s okay to say, «Just to let you know, we close in a few minutes,» so I can explain I just came in for something quick. But if your store is supposed to be open, and there’s plenty of time between when I walk in and when the store closes to get done what I came in to get done, but you won’t let me, I’m taking names.

This is not the best V-​Outlet by any means. I ran into it last week when I had to grab some cheap laundry soap and they only had 1 kind in stock!
Yes, they have reopened this again and that is good. Lots of homeless people in P.B. shop here and they do have some good deals on stuff.
But for a better selection of merchandise, I head up the Clairemont Drive hill and hit up that V-​Outlet that is LOADED with inexpensive name brand skin care items, John Freida hair care, and-​when you get there at the right time-​great deals on perfectly good and not expired vitamins.
Still-​if you are down by the beach and need a few things, this newly reopened V-​Outlet will do the trick. Not a lot of parking in the lot and located on a very busy corner of Pacific Beach. Just glad they got it open again and hopefully will be adding more goods as the days progress.

i can’t find an address for this place anywhere, but if you’re interested it’s in clairemont right across from keil’s food stores.
it smells like cinnamon in here. that’s a nice change from other 99 cent stores that smell like the cheap plastic used in fake flowers and dust.
standard 99 cent store type merchandise but with a huge selection of pickled carrots. i almost got some pickled carrots and jalapenos (in the same jar!) for my boyfriend but he said he didn’t want any.
i left with an ashtray and an umbrella. both are actually kind of cute.
99 cent pregnancy tests!