Five Below Celebrates Its Grand Opening With Fun, Savings

With balloons, colorful decorations, food and people spilling out on to the sidewalk, the grand opening of the retailer Five Below was done in festival-like fashion Friday.

The store, which in the Green Oak Village Place mall next to , sells a variety of popular merchandise geared toward pre-teens and teenagers, with prices at $5 or below.

Stacy Faitel, general manager of the Brighton store, said that over 100 people were lined up before the doors opened at 9 a.m. Paws, the mascot of the Detroit Tigers, made an appearance at 9:30 a.m. Hot dogs were going for 5 cents at a cart parked outside, and there were hula-hooping, ball-dribbling and jump roping contests all throughout the day.

Customers liked what the store was offering on its shelves too.

"I like it, it's got some good product for cheap prices," Donna Peddicord from Howell said. "We need businesses like this in the economy today."

Some customers were impressed with the quality of products there, which they said were cheaper at Five Below than elsewhere.

"There actually are things you can find at normal stores like Target ... they have the same kind of makeup," Jessie Bartush said, from Brighton. "They actually have stuff you want to get."

"It's the cheapest workout things I can find, so me and my sister are pretty happy," Haley Hill from Brighton said, who was shopping for yoga mats. The hairbrushes and cosmetics caught her eye too.

Other favorites noted by customers there included the candy selection, iPod covers, backpacks and lunchboxes.

Five Below is continuing its promotions throughout the weekend. Roary, the mascot from the Detroit Lions will be there Saturday at 11 a.m., and the radio station Channel 955 will show up at 1 p.m. Saturday. Plus, t-shirts will be handed out to the first 300 customers on Saturday and Sunday and there's a sign-up to win a $100 shopping spree too.

"I won't go to dollar stores anymore, I'll probably come here," Bartush said about shopping for makeup and other things in the future.