Colorado Springs Shopping

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A great place marketed to sell your household and craft goods - Colorado Springs Flea Market advertises themselves as the premiere place to host your garage sale. Every city has them, each one is unique in its own way. Its a place to buy, sell, bargain, and enjoy a family outing - food, entertainment, and vendors galore. They host up to 500 vendors throughout Colorado at this market on a 30 acre paved site with new and used merchandise, and open year round every weekend with plenty of free parking. Admission is $2 with kids 12+ free. Sometimes live acts bless the space with musical entertainment and a food cart is driven up and down the aisles. I enjoyed my time there even though my new metaphysical merchandise didn't sell too great. Rating: 4 stars out of 5.

Bargain Mart - one of my favorite discounted groceries hosts proudly adverts claiming they are the 'lowest priced groceries in town' - which they are unquestionably in this town, the most affordable bargains you can find. Its because they deal in the discounted grocery, closeouts, overstocks, and damaged freight goods. Here you can get most high brand salad dressings that usually cost you $3 a bottle, for a great deal of 2 dressings for a $1.25. Started up by John and Jean Fowler, it was taken over by Jim and Diane Krug to provide an alternative for west-side shoppers boasting having 70's pricing scales. There are two others in the area - on the east side of the Springs and Manitou Springs - all different owners. Here you find a variety of foods - always a treasure trove of finds - always different, though some brand names can be seen there on a frequent basis. They carry the stuff that premiere and pricey grocery stores think they can't sell - dented cans, surplus that might have torn labels or missing labels, improperly guled cereal boxes, inventory at King Soopers that someone opened up on the shelf to take a single item from, now making the set un-sellable there - all of these items go to a reclamation center to determine what should be boxed up for discount outlets like Bargain Mart, disposed of, or given to charities. Bargain Mart weeds through the surplus and won't carry anything that is perishable which makes them different than alot of their competitors. They also have alot of organic and natural foods in their inventories.
I've found lots of Starbucks coffee, high-end teas such as Oregon Chai, A Taste of Thai, and other great finds. They also have electronics, household goods, and clothing in their offerings. I often get Vitamin Water, Propel, and Gatorade for 50 cents a bottle there. For the soda drinkers, you usually can get your can of coke or pepsi for 25 cents a can. Of course my most favorite grocery store - is Trader Joe's, where you get perfectly packaged, brand new unique grocery stuff for comparable prices to Bargain Mart - but alas, there are no Trader Joes in the state of Colorado. Therefore my shopping plan is check first at Bargain Mart, write down on a list of what-can-wait for my Trader Joe trips to New Mexico I do every other month, and then its off to the Vitamin Cottage, King Soopers, or Safeway. Rating: 5 stars out of 5.

A large warehouse with hundreds of antique dealers with booths all blended together as one super-store. The entire complex is a maze of consignment booths from local antique dealers. The variety of goods is overwhelming and cannot be fully shopped or browsed in a day. While each booth is unique, priced, and run by different merchants, the merchants are seldom around, as you gather your items and pay at the cashier at the entrance/exit of the warehouse. Many sales are happening weekly making the bargains even more incredible. There are also some craft dealers and artisans present. Because the store is so large, you might need to hunt down a staff person for assistance even though there is a large staff presence at all times. While we only spent 4 hours in the store, it was pretty amazing. Rating: 4 stars out of 5.

I'll list some shops on Tejon Street downtown. There are just too many great ones to mention:
Terra Verde - GREAT clothes, home decor, baby gifts, bath and body, great gifts
CJ Card - just doors down from Terra Verde - GREAT selection of unique cards and gifts
What's in Store - Nice home decor
Little Richard's Toy Store - fantastic toy store
Poor Richrd's - great book store connected to the toy store - check out their wine bar and restaurant - all great
Colorado Co Op - womens fashions, gifts, home decor
Chico's - ladies fashions (chain store)

They sell here all kinds of stuff with the park’s emblems, Colorado titles, etc. I never bought anything there but it is fun just to look. I think you can find the same things in many other places.

Beautiful shop. They specialize in beautiful tea sets. They also have romantic clothing and jewelry and home furnishings. They have a nice selection of gourmet foods, too. Even my husband likes this shop. There is something for almost everyone. They always serve samples of their peach tea and some type of snack from their gourmet food section.

I always go to Crying Out Loud for unique gifts for kids. They also have a few items adults may like (pictures, clocks, etc).

They have fantastic unique children's clothing, stuffed animals, toys, blankets, adorable shoes, and jewelry.

If I named all the shops in Old CO City - I'd be typing for days. I'll just say visit Old CO City. It's a beautiful historic area with a shop for almost anyone: antiques, galleries, eclectic gifts, reasonable souvenir shops, candy, ice creem, mountain decor.

I used to live in this are and think it's just great. I do a ton of Christmas shopping here. There's plenty of free parking in lots just off the main street.