Ollie's Bargain Outlet | Media, PA

 

1154 W. Baltimore Pike

Welcome to the Media Ollie's!

A bonus day of the year means a bonus post! This December visit to the Media Ollie's marked my first time photographing an Ollie's for the blog, and also my first time in an Ollie's in general. This location held its grand opening on May 15, 2019 as the first Ollie's in Delaware County. If you couldn't already tell from the facade, this was previously a Toys R Us, which opened in the early 90s and lasted until the original chain closed for good in June 2018. Let's head inside and see if we can find any Good Stuff Cheap!

Ollie's Bargain Bookland is in the front left corner and food is straight ahead past the main entrance. I didn't realize Ollie's had food, and I was surprised to see that most of it was actually not expired. The oldest food item I saw was probably Halloween Cap'n Crunch.

Clothing is in the back left corner of the store. I know Ollie's stores are known for being in disarray, but this area in particular isn't far off from a thrift store that was hit by a hurricane.

Health and beauty aids are in the center of the store. The flooring left over from Toys R Us actually works pretty well here.

The Toy Box was well-stocked for the Christmas season, calling back to the building's past life as a toy store.

Carpeting and furniture run down the back wall of the store. It seems like Ollie's keeps a limited number of lights on, which isn't a problem up front where the light shines through the windows but makes the back of the store quite dark.

On this side of the store we find housewares, domestics, and other miscellaneous items.

The signage gets quite busy as we get to the front end.

The most obvious leftover from Toys R Us is the flooring in front of register one! What other store would leave this?

You can't see it in this picture, but my favorite sign in the whole store was the red arrow reading "Ollie's Complaint Department" that pointed to the exit door.

A look at the recycled Toys R Us road sign, with the Promenade at Granite Run, formerly the Granite Run Mall (the name everyone still uses), in the background. Last week's Acme is just barely out of site.

Other Images of Interest

Street View Images

2017

This store looked pretty new at the time of closure, as it was remodeled in the early 2010s (it looked more like this before).

That concludes this tour! I was actually pleasantly surprised by Ollie's. I ended up finding a few things in there and I'm sure I will go back again. It was also really cool to see all the things left over from Toys R Us. Tomorrow, we're headed about three miles south to Brookhaven to tour one of their supermarkets. See you then! The Retail Connection: Good Stuff Cheap!