Gerrard Square Shopping Centre

Community mall that serves more than the local community. I drive to this mall just because it has everything a busy person needs. Groceries, lunch, games, glasses, clothes, banking, gadgets, Service Canada. It is besides a Home Depot and Gerrard street is a great street. The mall is a great hub for everyone to meet for a chat. It is a very pleasant and clean mall.

Curious small animal exploring man-made structure...if you like taking pictures of these clever creatures. Golden hour in the fall morning... This parking lot becomes a camp ground for moto homes... and most importantly, it is a playground for small animal... a rat is watching behind a rotting vehicle's wheel.🐭👽🐭 Get Qi charging by standing beside a transformer? Not sure if that works for smartphone.

Packed at 2pm on a Monday. Hard to find parking, hardly anything in the mall but just a handful of good stores like winners and walmart. Food court is tiny with not many good options to choose from. Avoid.

This mall has great services including various stores shopping areas and service canada

Gerrard Square Mall is very small, 2 floors. Normally is very quiet during weekdays. Many small businesses lost business. Somehow food court is still open with some choice of food. Free parking!

Gerrard Square, good mall. Has Basic Foods grocery store, Walmart, Home Depot, Staples, a Service Canada location, Winners, and many other shops. I attend Dr. Ma and Dr. Lu's Dental Office. This is my family choice for our Dentist. We appreciate the warm kind welcoming from all the staff, and everything is explained in detail prior to the service needed. Highly recommended! The shops in the mall are convenient for pickup up bits and prices after our appointments.

There's a Home Depot and a Walmart in the place alongside fast food restaurants and diners. There are shops selling various things like bags and suitcases, phone accessories and personal care items. There's another supermarket inside the place. There's a parking lot for the visitors.

Gerrard Square is that low‑key neighborhood mall that’s way more useful than it looks. Between the quirky little local shops and the discount supermarket, you can actually knock out a ton of errands without trekking across town. It’s compact, but don’t be fooled — it gets busy fast, so expect a bit of a crowd vibe. It’s not trying to be Yorkdale or Eaton Centre, and that’s kind of the charm. Think practical, community‑driven, and a little chaotic — the perfect spot when you just need to grab stuff and keep it moving.

This is a mid-size shopping centre with 2 floors. . It isn't considered high-end. For big-box retailers, there are Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Winners, Staples, Planet Fitness, Food Basics, and McDonald's. There are many small retailers and food vendors. I used to come more often from 2010 to 2017 but didn't come again until 2020-12-11. I've purchased various things from many vendors over the years. There is street level parking and covered parking. There are times that the parking lots are full. Home Depot has their own 2-level parking.

It's one of the worst malls I've been to in decades. Start with the terrible parking lot, the weirdos smoking and shouting at each other outside the main doors, they are there every day, the smell in the mall, the dreary downtrodden appearance, the half empty stores. Very depressing feel to it, also has a weird layout. It does have a couple of major stores though; Walmart, Staples, Home Depot and Winners, and a Planet Fitness, but to get to Planet after hours, you'd have to go through a nasty back street. The rest of the place is like something from 1970. There's really nothing quite like it. It also closes early on the weekends; 6PM, so many times I've gone down to find it shut and they don't update their website for opening hours.

I'm giving Gerrard Square a 5-star review, if only to counter all the elitist, snobbish, condescending reviews. Once you start off your review with, "Well, it's no Yorkdale/Fairview/Eaton Centre", then we know that your Lululemon-wearing, Coach-toting self probably doesn't appreciate this neighbourhood to begin with. So review the mall itself, not the "trashy parents" or the people who work here. The only place that actually does deserve a thumbs-down here is the "Cellular X" kiosk on the main floor, near the lottery booth. The reps here either don't provide the right products ($15 screen protector for my phone was off by 1-2 mm on all 4 sides), or they aren't able to properly install it (they put it on once, lifted it and tried again, and now the edges show "bubbling"). However, they are eager to get your "if you provide cash only, no taxes" sales. The CRA would love to know about that. Don't waste your money at this kiosk. Otherwise, this is a solid shopping centre that well serves the community. It's not fancy, but it'll take your money and give you decent products and services in return, and I haven't experienced poor customer service from staff here.

This is no Eaton Centre but this little shopping centre is as good as it gets in the area! I grew up in the area and my first visit was when I was 6 years old so there's a lot of childhood memories. Who remembers when there was Smart Set here about 18 years ago?!?! There's plenty of parking considering people don't typically spend more than an hour or two here. Some of my favourite places to visit: McDonalds (has play area), Home Depot, Winners, Walmart, KFC, Dollar store, CIBC, Infuse Tea and Guo Jewellery (Pandora authorized retailer). They also have Santa Claus visit and photos during December for Christmas. We came for the first time for Christmas 2017 and it was amazing. There was minimal lineup for photos with Santa and my daughter LOVED it, the two ladies working there at that time were very friendly and able to catch her attention and made her smile. It's worth a visit here compared to spending so much time waiting at other malls especially during the already busy holiday season time.

Since there are no other sizable plaza or mall in the area.. so you kind of stuck with Gerrard Square. Retired people gathering around and spending the whole afternoon doing nothing! Babysitter wheeling their strollers around or have toddlers screaming and running down the hallways.. Shops aside from Staples, Home Depot and Winners..hardly have any customers! I at least have Tropical Joe and Crepes It Up! as lunch before I head off to more depressing neighbourhood streets!

A W F U L. First impressions; begging for change at the entrance, smokers everywhere at the entrance. Guy at the phone stall/booth picking his nose, hard! Babies crying, ugly no name sports/clothing mini shops, ZERO parking, or driving around forever trying to find parking (parked on the street across the street), easily the worst WINNERS I've been in (stock and shelves a mess). Horrible design. B U L L D O Z E it???

When we moved to Downtown (Dundas-River St.)last year we visited Gerrard Mall more often. It's a very modest convenience Mall, but it has "everything" necessary you are looking for. Not "very sophisticated " but a good maintain-clean and proper place!Just "made for us"! We are very satisfied!

They've fixed up this mall, but they have net been able to take the "Gerrard square" out of Gerrard square, if you know what I mean. They have a decent variety of stores for a smaller mall, including Walmart, Staples, a Dollar Store, EB Games, a very well placed EI office, Home Depot, a Grocery store and so on. On the food side they have Tim Horton's, McDonald's - which shares the same parking lot, Subway, a no-name pizza place, and so on. The entire food court and the area near it have a strong smell of curry. I like curry, but the smell is too much for me. There is enough parking, but be careful if you are driving around here. The drivers in this area seem crazy. There are a lot of taxis - they drive by their own rules.

An alright place to check out if you're jn the area. Nothing too spectacular . Most exciting things for me here is the winners , and the gym. That's about it .

Small local shopping center. No fancy shops, just stores supplying you with the basic necessities in life; Home Depot, Wal-mart, Food Basics, etc. Very small food court with not that many choices, eg Subway, KFC, Italian, Caribbean, Greek and Chinses plate lunches. First food court I've been to that a New York Fries was not present, oh poutinue how I miss you Looks like this shopping centre is a favorite gathering place for the elderly neighborhood population.

Holy moley, I get to write a review for a mall? Don't mind if I do! == THE BASICS == Gerrard Square is the east-end Toronto local neighbourhood mall. I grew up going to this unremarkable B-or-C-grade mall, and it was shit then, and it is still shit. It has everything you need to survive in the urban environment. But beyond that, "G-Square" (or "Ghetto Square" as I still call it) doesn't offer much of anything else. There are no upscale stores or attractions, it has no atmosphere. It's not a place where you want to hang out at nor eat at. The mall staff and security are typically useless blobs. It probably helps to conceptualize the mall as instead an immersive live 3D consumerist adventure, where you play a character who needs to buy what they need and get out quickly before the hoards of dazed shoppers and zombies attack. Otherwise, you won't survive the depressing experience that is Gerrard Square. == WORLD ONE: THE PARKING LOT == If you arrive here by walking or streetcar (the 506 to Pape), or by shopping cart, give yourself 3 points. If you arrive by bicycle, lock it at Gerrard Street and give yourself 3 points--the mall's only bike rack is clunky, inconvenient and often always full. However, the mall was built for cars. You are presented with 3 choices to park your ride: OUTSIDE in the open; in the UNDERGROUND CAVERN; and in the rear-end MULTI-LEVEL GARAGE. The MULTI-LEVEL GARAGE is ideal if you are planning to shop at HOME DEPOT. It is also very sparsely used above the third parking level. Hence, a secret mini-game exists here: if you can successfully get shaggy in your car without being caught, you win 100 points! I kid you not. == TRANSITION ZONE: THE ENTRANCE == Gerrard Square's main ENTRANCE is usually stinking of cigarettes, and swarming with angry riff-raffs, trashy parents and screaming kids. Discreetly avoid these zombies for some easy points. (Note that you wouldn't have to put up with this if you parked at the MULTI-LEVEL GARAGE.) == WORLD TWO: THE GROUND FLOOR == To your immediate left is FOOD BASICS, the mall's only grocery. It is fairly unkempt, but has everything you need to keep food on the dinner table. Grab some FRUITS and SODAS to fuel up. You will also find on this level some CELL PHONE stores, a NAIL SPA, a T-SHIRT store and DENTIST, a HEALTH FOOD store, a FOOT LOCKER and THE SOURCE, a JEWELLERY store, a CIBC bank, and the FOOD COURT. If you enter the EB GAMES, buy a VIDEO GAME and receive a sales pitch for a disc protection program where the clerk scratches a CD with a key, gain 10 points for one of the most awkward gaming experience you've just endured. One should note that the HOME DEPOT here is one of the few in the world that is housed inside a shopping mall, instead of its usual big-box format. Appliances and tools to the left; paint, electricals and lumber to the right; and gardening outside. You'll find everything you need to defend yourself against a zombie apocalypse, so buy a CHAINSAW. At the opposite end of the mall, is a WAL-MART, in what used to be the Zellers. It's a basic WAL-MART, which also serves as Gerrard Square's de facto only bookstore and pharmacy. Be careful here, as the consumers and zombies are especially dazed and vicious, even more trashy and large. Prepare to defend yourself with the CHAINSAW as you make your way to the back where you'll find the electronics department and the $5 DVDs BIN. == WORLD THREE: THE UPPER FLOOR == Upstairs you'll find a STAPLES, ARDENE, HALLMARK, BOWRING, a TOYS-R-US EXPRESS, a TOP CUTS salon and an EYEGLASSES store. There's a WINNERS as well, and an entire strip of crummy chain fashion retailers like INTERNATIONAL CLOTHIERS, URBAN PLANET, and FAIRWEATHER. Extra bonus points earned automatically should you be here when the SERVICE CANADA location just happens to be open. The DOLLAR STORE isn't really a dollar store. The most expensive thing I have found there is $14 for a large decorative cardboard storage box. If you can find an item that actually costs $1 (or 2 for $1, etc.), you win a couple points. == WORLD FOUR: THE FOOD COURT == You will find that your prepared food options here are very limited and extremely crappy. The atmosphere sucks, the bolted-down furniture grimy and uncomfortable, and the mall's only public WASHROOMS disgusting. Discreetly exit the mall. == WORLD FIVE: OUTDOOR RETAILERS == The only decent food options this mall has is found outside: the stand-alone MCDONALDS (with a PLAYPLACE), and TIM HORTONS around the corner. You'll also gain access from the street to PAWS AND CLAWS the pet store. This is as much positive streetscape urbanism as Ghetto Square can offer. Give yourself 4 points if you get to try the MCLOBSTER. == THE ANTICLIMATIC END == Now that you survived shopping here, you should have earned the achievements/trophies EMBRACE YOUR SQUARE and HAVE YOU SEEN GERRARD LATELY? Yeah, the mall's slogans are very lame and dated--they are still proud of their early-2000s reno job.

I don't know why I still come here. The Home Depot is key, of course and Jumbo Video is pretty awesome. Of course I would never step foot in Food Basics again, under any circumstances http://www.yelp.ca/biz/food-basics-food-stores-toronto#hrid:VCTT2d4BeAmUh3KtQtwRDA but sometimes I find myself wandering through GSquare thinking.. how did I get myself here? There is a WINNERS, and two ladies clothing shops upstairs (Fairweather? SmartSet?) That noticeably receive the outcast/unsellable merchandise from the other stores. There is a "boutique" just upstairs at the top of the escalators that sells what I can only decently describe as "hood-rat-club-wear" that is kind of interesting. It is clearly the place where the females in this neighborhood get the outfits that have you questioning "now WHERE would someone GET something like that?" Payless, the Grimiest Zellers I have ever stepped foot in, an athletics store, La Senza - which has decent selection but the RUDEST staff in the universe (*shouting across store* No miss! You will need a Large in that for sure! [ I am really not very big, but thanks ] ) There is however, a very large Staples, and a Benix & Company and a dollar store which all have their uses. You Might Like If: - If you enjoy people watching to the point of utter ad nauseam - you like men in pirate shirts and womens boots opening the doors for you. (what a gentleman!) - The free promotional giveaways at Zellers! Back corner of the store in 2 min! - you want some mid 90s "career wear" rejects - you get a kick out of cross-eyed chain-smoking teens-with-child in baby-phat-parkas giving you cut-eye at the front doors. - You want to visit TWO jewelry stores that feature a wide selection of faux-diamond-encrusted pot-leaf medallions. You Wont like If: - You feel like wearing clean, respectable clothing in public is necessary. - You like quality merchandise at reasonable prices - You are looking for retail therapy as opposed to CAMH or drug-rehab therapy. - You have an aversion to communicable diseases.

I'm not sure if I've just got a different perspective than most here. I don't go to malls looking for something exceptional. Almost all malls have their fair share of mediocre stores, and a few have some fairly decent stores. They're all soulless and a little dull. Gerrard Square used to be pretty low-rent, with almost no recognizable stores, and dingy. It's been updated, and it's now much less dingy and houses a Home Depot, Staples, Winners, Zellers, EB Games, The Source, CIBC Business Centre, etc. It's still not above-average for a mall, and I have no strong reason to recommend it, but if you want to pick up a few things for your house or business, this is really the only mall in the area. Is it a transcendent experience? Clearly not. Is it a hole, worth avoiding at all costs? No. It's just a small urban mall, where you go to buy things that you need.

This is our local shopping mall. There's not a lot here, but there is a dollar store, a home depot, a walmart, a winners, a staples and some other little shops. It ok, not a shopping mecca or anything. But it's ok, great if you need to pick up something.

No, it's not Yorkdale or Fairbiew Mall, but she's all we have. I've lived in Leslieville for 30 years so maybe I'm a little more forgiving of the 'old girl'. An odd little WalMart, Home Depot & Food Basics keep me coming back. Many stores have come & gone including Shoppers, Sears & Zellers through the years but they've survived. I'm always surprised the second floor gets overlooked. There's a great Winners, Toronto Clothiers & Stitches MegaStore up there. Parking can be scarce at times & the food court is 'pedestrian' at best. I don't drive & who eats in a mall anyways?

I should say right up front that I am a-ok with grungy and run down and that I am not much of a mall person at the best of times (perhaps saying 'in the best of places' would be more appropriate). But even considering that, there is something just gut wrenchingly depressing about Gerrard Square. It could be the smell of three day old urine that seems to follow me wherever I go (honestly - I sat on a bench today - urine. I stood near a door - urine. And it's not me). Or it could be the slightly musty smell of sadness, wet cardboard, and cheap synthetics that seeps out of Zellers. Whatever it is, it saps my life force. And on a practical level, the bike racks are annoyingly tricky to access. They're on an elevated section which means that you either need to carry your bike up the stairs (only 4 stairs, but it's still annoying) or you need to take the narrow winding ramp along with all the slow moving strollers, which is much more annoying than carrying your bike up four stairs. But there is a Home Depot, a CIBC, the soul-sucking Zellers, a grocery store, and a few generic food court places (though, honestly, the mall isn't really large enough that you should spend enough time here to require food). And there's nowhere else nearby where you can find lightbulbs, dryer vents, towel racks, and batteries all under one roof, so I've been twice in the past two weeks and anticipate additional visits in the near future.

A depressing, ugly, mall-like place. DUMP. Seriously, why would anyone in their right mind step foot in here? At least I have an excuse, as I found this place out of hunger. I was looking for another embarrassing-in-which-to-be-found establishment, Subway. My GPS was telling me that I'd just passed it, but it wasn't visible. I thought "Ah, it must be in this mall. Who knows, it might be fun - maybe I'll find something interesting." While I realized that the odds of finding something cool or interesting in a mall were next to none, it was my extreme hunger that pushed me inside. My heart goes out to those who have to work here.

I have said this once and i will say it again....THE MOST UNDERRATED MALL. This pace has everything you need such as a Food Basics, EB Games, Home Depot, Walmart, Health food place, Custom Tshirt place, Top Cuts, Winners, etc etc etc Staples, etc etc etc not to mention the best jerk chicken in the city IMHO Tropical Joe's.

Just another depressing trip to Gerrard Square today for some clothes hangers. This is unfortunately the only mall-type biz within walking distance to my home. But you know what? I'm drawing the line. I'd rather go a bit further from home to avoid this place. -Terrifyingly bad Food Basics. Apparently due dates do not matter. Nah. -Desperate sales - WHOLE STORE 20$ AND UNDER. Fairly certain other store locations just send their reject stuff here. -The most motley assortment of patrons ever to exist. -I feel like I'm in some sort of shopper's purgatory. Redeeming 2 star points: -Staples, Winners, Home Depot, mall is kept relatively clean. Even these stores are somehow second rate to others in the city. (Is that enough to bring it up from a one star? I'm unsure) Side note: As other reviews have noted...Is this place even a square? *Looks on Google Earth*

This is definitely the epitome of Chris Rock's 'Dirt Mall' comedy bit. Baby mamas, baby daddies, baby drama, and lots of people who's culture accepts yelling, horquing, and 'farmer blow' nose clearing indoors. The stores are underperforming versions of their brands and make you feel like you are in a turn of the century communist country version of each of them. The one salvaging factor of this mall is the Home Depot. Although small and mysteriously laid out, this home depot employs the nicest, most helpful staff I have ever encountered. I'm a new home owner and have rolled into the Depot many times in the past year completely confused, only to have someone extremely helpful talk me through the process of building downspouts or wiring a motion light without frying myself. I would also recommend Metropolitan building supplies across the street for your paving stone/gravel needs. They are incredibly nice as well.

I don't know HOW this place stays in business. You go there on a week day afternoon and besides the odd shopper, the place seems to be a gathering place for groups of old Asians who sit side by side and yell at each other. I had to go to Staples recently for a printer cartridge and it had that eerie deserted vibe that you see in zombie movies. They used to have some decent stores like Sears, Shoppers, Food City. They have long since bailed. There is no decent drug store and their grocery store (can't remember the name) couldn't look more uninviting. It's dark, dreary and reminds me of the old Knob Hill Farm stores. The Zellers has to be one of the worst - it's a cluttered, disorganized mess. Home Depot and Benix are two bright spots. Half decent Dollar Store when it's not full of screaming kids. Winners is as bad as Zellers. It's a mess with merchandise strewn everywhere. Food court - depressing. Wouldn't get a cup of coffee there. There is a nice Hallmark store which looks really out of place but it's virtually always empty. On the main level, smack in the middle, is an area where they sell that stuff you see on infomercials. Yes! Now you can buy a Sham Wow and not have to pay shipping! Bonus!

Let's just say that Gerrard Square makes my soul weep. But I did get a nice pair of sport socks from (the ironically named?) Winners. Extra star!

It has the essentials, a food court, clothing stores and a home improvement store. It's honestly a small humble mall that doesn't try to be something it isn't, the location is also very convenient since it's very close to my high school. I would only recommend to come here only if you live nearby because it isn't outstanding. Overall it's just average at best and I go everyday for lunch. Why does this Garrard Square get a 2 star rating from me? Simple, the security staff. They are the worse security guards I have ever had contact with in my life. This only applies if you're a student. If you and a few friends decide to go to Walmart, guess who's going to follow you around the whole store and watch your every move? The security guards assume that every student steals, when I go and pick up a product, to check the quality of it and read the labels they just interrupt me and say, "are you going to buy that?" Like for real, are you going to get off my ass? I can never have my privacy, they have the audacity to talk to me like I'm less than a human being. TL;DR Pros -Essential stores -Clean -Location -Food Cons -Security staff, they're assholes they ruin my day and really bring down the mood, one time they told us to get out of the store if we're not going to buy anything, really dude? You're kicking out potential customers which just ruins the business and ruins your image. It does more bad than good, actually it does no good at all. That concludes my review on Gerrard Square.

If I had to work in a mall again I would kill myself i think. If I had to work in Gerrard Square I would take people with me before I did it.. Now, to be fair I wouldnt EVER call myself a frequenter of malls (because you couldn't figure that out from the first two lines...) That being out of the way, as far as malls go, despite their effort to clean this place up, it is still pretty drab. It is perhaps, reflective of the current mix of folks that live in the area, so I suppose it is moving along at a pace that makes sense with its surroundings. (i remember talking/or being told by a cashier in home depot that the gentrification of gerrard square was a sad and an unfair thing because most of the people that had always shopped there, now, were less able to shop there as there were more expensive stores opening up, etc. - it is sad, but it is what it is.) This is a bare bones place that is slowly creeping upwards - there are solid generic stores like home depot, staples, zellers, etc and some no name stores for clothes, accesories, etc., so if you know what you need it definitely serves its purpose. If you are looking for a shopping extravaganza, a dazzling day fighting over the last avant-garde sweater on the rack, youve come to the wrong place. For me, it comes down to convenience. Because I live close by, i am thankful for the more utilitarian stores that are there all in one place. So, go ahead and add a half to those two stars and there you have it.

As sad as it sounds, I practically grew up in this mall because my parents ran a salon here in the 90's. It truly was a really sad mall because of the really sad stores (less generic albeit) that it housed. I'm not surprised to read other reviews about how this mall makes peoples' souls weep. At least it was renovated and has stores people recognize and would frequent (e.g. Winners, home depot). The food court still sucks though.

I wouldn't recommend coming here unless you live around the area and just doing grocery shopping.

A small, bright and clean mall with a good selection of stores including Staples, Home Depot and Food Basics. Walmart has just replaced Zellers, probably an improvement. I can't relate at all to the negative reviews. This is a neighbourhood mall, not a monstrous commercial hub like the Eaton Centre. It serves the community well.

This mall is more like a convenience centre and is nothing like the big malls such as Sherway or Yorkdale. They really should market it as a convenience center, and this isn't a bad thing, I think it is one of the few things that make it good. You can get in and out quickly and parking usually available and it is easy to get to if you live in the area. MY biggest complaint is the Tropical Joes that stinks the place up. I don't know how the CIBC bank located next door to Tropical Joes puts up with it and I avoid the food court for this reason. When I walk through this mall I usually have to go home and change to get the smell of tropical joes out of my clothes and for that reason I avoid this mall. I don't usually bother with Walmart but this one is small and manageable. That being said, the have a small home depot, winners, staples and a few other stores that make the trip here for those that live in the area worthwhile. I give it 3 stars because it is good at what it does on a limited scale.

mall in itself is good. much nicer after they renovated a few years back. winners and walmart are the main stores i go to, and sometimes food basics. winners has a decent selection, but as always you need to get real lucky to get a good find. I bought a pair of tretorn rainboots for about $30 once and was so stoked! walmart is like any other walmart. much better than target! ;) maybe a bit smaller than most locations though. food basics is alright, but not too much selection. staples is good if there's a good sale. otherwise it's overpriced in my opinion. much rather look online - ebay, newegg, canada computers...just some thoughts! now, the reason why i am posting this review. if i could give a 0 star rating to a specific store, I would. (un)fortunately, yelp is too kind. the dollar store next to staples is just atrocious. I have been coming here infrequently, but still consistently enough over the years. I've never had a problem before, as it was just 1) go in, 2) get what I'm looking for (and maybe a couple other things), 3) pay, 4) leave, 5) be happy at how much I saved. I'd recently bought a bike light that I thought was a red light (red coating = red light, decent assumption??). It was actually white, so I went back to exchange it a few days later (I had work so couldn't go in any sooner). The first lady I spoke to immediately told me nope, can't do anything about it goodbye (in a condescending manner). she then ignored me completely and served the next customer. I asked if there was anyone I could speak to and she said they're all on break. whether they actually were or not, I'll never know. I came back after ~15 minutes, and spoke to a different lady. she called someone who I assume is a manager, and he told me the same thing that they can't do anything about it, it's their policy, goodbye. needless to say, I will never return here. it was a $4 (&tax) purchase - not the biggest deal. I gave the light to my friend to use as I don't ever want to see it again, that shows how much I care about the cost. really it was just the principle of being in the retail industry, that they are supposed to be helpful to their customers. at least act helpful, rather than rude, obnoxious, indifferent, or actually quite annoyed. at this rate I'd rather spend a full $10 for the lights at Sportchek. go dollarama go! please avoid the gerrard square dollar store at all cost.

It is a pretty good place to get your essentials. Even though it is not comparable to big malls, but I would say it has been very convenient for me since most of the stuff I need I can find in here. If there is one con about this place I would say some of the vending stands (small stores) and the lighting is making the mall looking kind of cheap. But I'm usually there to grab something, so I don't see a big problem with it. Terrible parking lot though.

Ever since the renovations the mall has been trying to attract a higher clientele but sadly the area the mall is located in can't support such high end boutiques and luxury shops. The average overall clientele is low to low medium income families with a lot of newly arrived immigrants, which is why when the two storey Sears Clearance centre was open, it did good sales. Now it's been replaced by Winners on the second floor and Home Depot on the ground floor. Their food court is really a sad joke and though they have the capacity to hold a lot of customers. The majority of the patrons are seniors who don't even buy a cup of coffee but chat with friends for hours. Also I'm not fond of the cafeteria seating arrangement. Though they have the typical 4 chairs attached to a table sectionals, they're arranged in a column format much like a grade school cafeteria. All that does is make it so people want to loiter for hours. They seem to have a lot of security patrols but they seem to be doing nothing but writing on their scratch pads a lot. Bottom line, it's a decent enough mall for essentials but don't expect a joyous day shopping here. Expect long lines at all the major retail locations.

i come here every week for walmart since its close by, but the parking lot is very very dirty! i donno when will they ever renovate or clean it??? the asphalt is falling off, onto the cars, so u better park outside or upstairs. the mall inside is clean, has nice pancake and juice bar, cheap clothing, winners is nice, food basics is ok, not my fav i come here for milk and soydrink.. i wish they had a cinema or proper restaurant not just a junk food court, also if they had a chiropractic clinic, etc or playcentre...instead of the tacky boutiq next to food basics, those 2 shops are terribly tacky and they just waste the retail unit space, upstairs is dollarstore,ardene , fairweather and winners, its OK, good deals but i really dislike their clothing units downstairs... spoils the whole mall and degrades it. if the parking lot will be clean and not dirty (mattresses dumped in the way,etc) then i give 4 stars, and i ll give 5 stars when those tasteless clothing stores next to walmart and food basics will close down and proper fashionable shops will open and not ethnic stores.... otherwise its not a pricy place, clothing is from 5-15 bucks, and there is suzy shier my fav store that always has sale and elegant feminine dresses made for going out or to dine in a restaurant...