Five Below

Five Below is a fairly new store in Auburn Hills, across the street from Great Lakes Crossing.  As the name implies, all of the merchandise here is five dollars or less.  Similar to a dollar store it aims at selling things incredibly cheap.  However, unlike many dollar store items, the products sold at Five Below are good quality items.  Furthermore they sell brand name items, not just knock off brands, and still manage to keep the prices extremely low.

Five Below seems to target teenagers and young adults.  While anyone might find this store appealing, it would be especially so for late teens and young adults.  The store is divided into sections: sports, media, crafts, party, candy, media, and style.  The primary reason I feel this store is for late teen and young adult (other than conveniently being inexpensive) is because it has sections like “dorm room”.  This is all pretty neat stuff, whether calendars or dart boards.  You can tell it targets girls more specifically with the colorful flowers and other girly designs on plungers, laundry baskets, dish rags, and other items needed for daily chores, with a funky twist on them because of the designs. 

Five Below is the perfect place to shop for gifts.  Particularly, during Christmas time I bought presents for people close to me and Secret Santa type gifts.  This was made possible because during Christmas time there were all sorts of gift bundles.  Whether they were coffee mug theme bundles, (like Star Wars or monopoly hot chocolate) or stereotypical girl gifts like pampering kits that included body wash, lotion, perfume, and a loofa, they were all five dollars or less.  Moreover, they weren’t necessarily the all typical gift bundles. They had bundle gifts for pets too!  I bought my cat a kitty stocking that was stuffed full of several toy mice, balls, cat nip, and bouncing string toys for only three dollars.  In addition to gift bundles, there were huge sets of wrapping paper, gift boxes, bows, and bags, where buying one set could wrap all of your Christmas presents so you could kill two birds with one stone Christmas shopping and getting the Christmas themed wrapping here too. 

As with many other stores, Five Below changes regularly according to season and holidays.  Right now they are selling all sorts of St. Patrick’s Day merchandise.  There are Irish t-shirts saying typical things like “Kiss Me I’m Irish” that are only five bucks.  There are also goofy leprechaun hats and ties.  For girls, there are light up shamrock earrings and shamrock head bands. 

Five below has a variety of fitness equipment.  They have weights, yoga mats, fitness balls, stretch rope, and water bottles.  They also have sports gear like basketballs, baseballs, footballs, baseball mitts, and more.  They even have “As Seen On TV” stuff like a shake weight and an ab roller.  Whats important to remember though is that all of this stuff is five dollars or less, so this would be an awesome place to get started inexpensively if you were looking to get in shape. 

Trying to convey the wide variety of merchandise that Five Below has would be nearly impossible.  So I will summarize by saying they have board games, stuffed animals, toys, shot glasses, snack food and beverages,  videogames, DVDs, clothes, perfume, and much more.  On a whole, Five Below has a lot to offer and would be a great place to shop for inexpensive gifts along with items for you too.