Dollarama has a boffo opening day at 732 Mt. Pleasant Rd.

by The Bulldog • December 13, 2016

You may say what you like about Dollarama, but the people have spoken. Opening day at the new dollar store on Mt. Pleasant was a beep-beep-beep kind of the cash experience. Listen to the code reader go.

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