Daiso

I love this place!! It's my go to for so many things since they've opened at SSC. Everytime I go, I've always had a pleasant experience from Krystal who is fast, friendly and super helpful. She is beautiful both inside and out!! Customer service seems to be lost in this new generation, so everytime I see a bright shining star... I want to make sure to highlight them. Thank you Krystal for always making my shopping experience a pleasant one

For its small size, it still has everything stocked as much as the bigger stores. Best location

I shop here multiple times and I always have a good experience but today I didn't. The girl that checked me out at the first cashier taking cash gave me a disgusted face the entire time she was checking me out. It made me feel uncomfortable and I thought it was really rude. I'm not sure who is the manager there but I feel if you're going to hire people, at least make sure they have some respect and are nice lol. I've never had this experience before.

We all have to collectively stop giving money to businesses that fail to train and manage their surly, rude teenaged employees. If these unpleasant staff members can't be trained or managed into being minimally pleasant, the store can't stay in business. My last visit was the last straw after many, many bad experiences. There was a young employee restocking shelves, and her cart was stopped in front of the shelves with the merchandise I was looking for. I stood there for a minute, and she ignored me. I finally said, "excuse me, do you mind if I move this so I can get at these shelves?" She made a sour face and said nothing, staring at the floor. I moved the cart about six inches. She continued to frown and not look at me. I said, "I'm sorry, am I bothering you by shopping?" She said without a hint of self-awareness, "It's ok, the cart's just really big." She continued to stock things on other shelves, and I decided to leave the store without buying anything. Honestly, customers don't need to accept this kind of rudeness and incompetence when there are a dozen other places to buy any of this stuff. No more Daiso for me.

Been to this location times. The place is quite small but they carry a lot of items that I love especially Sanrio. this time around we purchased more household items and didn't splurge on "wants". My hubby picked up a few items to give as gifts for his co workers. Now, of course the standard price is $1.75. Still a great value even though they have lots of items there that cost more. They will have different colored sticker label on the item and you'll need to refer to their price guide posted throughout the store. If I'm ever in the area again I'll definitely visit again. I highly recommend this place.

I've been coming to this Daiso location on multiple occasions now and have enjoyed my experience here every time.

As noted in almost every other review, this is an exceptionally small Daiso location compared to most. However, it is quite impressive how they've managed to pack in nearly everything that could be expected from other Daiso stores in such a limited space. The one downside is that it can get very crowded here, especially on the weekends. Especially when the queue to pay is long it can be a bit of a claustrophobic mess but it really helps that everything in this store is placed in a very neat and ordered fashion. The workers are excellent as well in keeping the store in good shape and in being friendly to customers.

I visit Daiso located in Alameda, for the first time, and it's a nice place, I purchased a cute backpack for only $4.75, it was under $5.00. I will be coming back.

Daiso is like the Asian version dollar store. I would say it's a bit more higher quality. All items start at $1.50 and up. Pretty similar concept to Target's Playground & Dollar Spot.

This store is smaller than most other Daiso stores. The aisles are small and usually cluttered. I can't even look at something for more than two minutes without someone saying excuse me and me having to move for other people to get through and vice versa. Not really able to enjoy my shopping experience here.

Every time I drop in, they would have new items. I don't know when they have added this, but they now have Sanrio products. My childhood favorite! So nostalgic. That says so much of my age though.. ha! I had to grab a few items ;)

All of my office supplies and snacks are bought here. They have really cute stuff! And they last pretty long too.

Daiso is one of those stores you don't really need but want. You'll have the intention of only getting an item or two but will end up getting more than you'll need.

When we walked in very well greeted! Being greeted is huge for me.
We walked around so much fun things to buy. The only problem is I don't understand the prices. Of course I didn't take a picture of that! I just went the register asking a times!
I believe the prices should be in English as well. I would buy a lot more. So after waiting in line asking prices. I was kind of over it!
Exactly cashiers just a bit much asking prices. Especially have to wait until others got rang up
Thanks again cashiers!

I adore this store. Daiso is a Japanese brand of chain discount stores. They used to be $1.50 and up but now are $1.75 and up. You can still get a great deal on household items, Japanese/Korean/Asian snacks, and beauty items. Their products are made and distributed from all over, besides what you'd expect (China) at discount stores. I have found items made in Japan and Korea for sale here too. They seem to be all over various cities and states in the USA now. The Alameda location is somewhat small compared to other venues but they still have a good selection of items. Most of it very adorable and kawai. You can sometimes find limited Sanrio brand accessories here (Hello Kitty, etc) and their soft plushies are great to give as gifts.