1440 Wholesale Fort Smith - Fort Smith, Arkansas

Sandra B.

It was fun to dig through the tables, and they had some good choices.

Karen L.

.. nice, hidden little gem right here .. I really love this place .. always something different each time I go .. this will be where I do my Christmas shopping .. always great prices too

Pam T.

I have found so many good deals at 1440 Wholesale Fort Smith. My friends and I all love shopping there. It's a great place to buy gifts for others. I'm thankful Fort Smith has a nice bin store, filled with good deals, so we no longer have to drive to NW Arkansas to bin shop!

Brenda H.

I’ve always gotten good quality items at a reasonable price. I love going to “the bins store”.

Chella C.

I find so many things at 1440. It is like a treasure hunt. I went yesterday, first time in awhile, and found several things that suited my needs. I pack boxes for Operation Christmas Child and yesterday I got two packs of 10 beach balls and two bags of balloons for $1 each. I got all the nail clippers at 3 for $1. Thank you 1440!

Jo D.

Absolutely the best store!! They all are very friendly and all around good people!! They make you feel welcome every time !! This is by far my favorite store in the area!

Avalon

I love this little family owned business in Ft. Smith. The guys are so cool and they have great stuff too. I especially love .50 cent day. Thanks for the great shopping experience.
Avalon
P. S. I would give 5 stars if the clothes were on hangers on a wrack. You could go through them more efficiently.

Hathaway N.

**EDIT:** Alright then, now I’m gonna put you on blast. The owners responded and instead of being any degree of professional, they left me this nasty message that they then deleted like cowards. Email I got is attached.

This just cements that I will not be back. But let’s address this, shall we? Nothing in my post is false. Some of it is opinion, yes, but it’s opinion based on what I’ve seen in the FOUR years I’ve shopped with you guys.

In fact, I’ll post photos of your old prices, and the fact that your restock days have changed from two to one. As far as my claim about you pulling the good stuff out of the bins, anybody with eyes can see that once they walk in and see what USED to be in those bins sitting neatly on a shelf with sticker prices, but I’ve attached some examples.

Come at me again and make yourself look even worse, please. 🙂

Original review follows, including the sadly mistaken part about the owner being a nice guy lol.

It’s been unreal to watch this place get progressively worse and worse as time goes on. Been shopping with them since they were off Towson. They used to have some incredible deals, some of which I managed to get. Huge items. All for $8. But I noticed things shift a bit when he announced new days/hours and just kind of brushed off the criticism from people like myself who can’t make it out to their Friday openings because of work and other commitments. Your store is cool, but not worth losing 2 hours or more of my day job.

Also in the last year or so, they got a little greedy with it. Now, bigger ticket items he originally used to get people in the door don’t go to the bins and instead pulled out and priced/sold separately. The prices went up for each day. He used to sell the pallets he got for a flat fee, but stopped when he saw some of the purchasers get really good items that he missed out on. Sorry man, that’s just the nature of this business. As you say, “some are winners and some are losers”

Speaking of which, mystery boxes are almost always duds now. We’ve bought several that have just been stuffed with the most random nonsense. For example, one we got had a bargain bin book, a Halloween tablecloth, some USB cables and some terrible Chinese phone cases. That’s it. For $50.

I used to come every week and sit at doors a while before they opened to get a good spot. Now, I barely stop by. The owner and his family are great, nice people. Don’t get me wrong. The allure of the money has just proven too great to continue being competitive and then only having a single restock day shows that the business is floundering a bit. Fortunately, this is a type of store that has a lot of competition, and that competition is great in town.