Carbonear goes crazy over new store Crazy Binz

Jenna Head · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 12, 2025 5:30 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

A caller store successful Carbonear is the caller craze successful town, and it claims to person the champion deals astir the bay.

Crazy Binz, known arsenic Around The Bay Deals connected societal media, offers customers a treasure hunt shopping experience. 

The store has rows of woody boxes filled with caller and returned items from Amazon. 

Marguerite McCarthy, co-owner of Crazy Binz, told CBC News she has sold big-ticket items similar industrial-grade mixers, barroom fridges, java machines and microwaves for nether $50.

Smaller items similar clothing, telephone accessories, and household items are sold for adjacent less.

"I had a woman present yesterday, actually. She got a brace of shoes. She got them for $5. She couldn't judge they were $5 So I said, 'Yes, my darling, they are $5,'" McCarthy said. "She was truly blessed astir it," 

The prices of the items successful the bins alteration daily. Their pricing docket starts connected Saturday erstwhile each items successful the bins are sold for $25. Throughout the week, prices spell down, and items change. Fridays are their dollar and $2.50 days. 

"Customers emotion it erstwhile they get a deal," McCarthy said.

On Saturdays, the store often has a enactment that reaches neighbouring businesses.

"The archetypal greeting we opened, actually, we were lined up from this doorway retired to the road, and we get lineups to the dentist's office," McCarthy said. "We opened present connected the 28th of September, and it's been brainsick ever since."

Beyond the bins is Around The Bay Deals, which sells Wayfair furnishings connected the store's Facebook group.

The leafage is astir 4 times the size of Carbonear's colonisation — with implicit 16,000 members keeping an oculus connected caller items for merchantability successful their auction-like business.

"You tin spell online and EMT, and the archetypal idiosyncratic to EMT is the 1 who gets it," McCarthy said. 

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McCarthy says radical from each crossed Newfoundland person visited her store, and determination are plans to expand.

"We bash person radical that privation to unfastened 1 up successful [Conception Bay South]. So determination volition decidedly beryllium 1 going successful C.B.S. soon," she said. 

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