Marden's as a whole, what a great company. I enjoy the offerings and for the most part, find the deals to be exceptional. Sure, some are overpriced by a mile but most are a great value. Presque isle is bigger and busier than Houlton, sometimes a little messier due to the amount of people moving through BUT, I have never had. a bad experience here with staff or product. read more

Good friendly Service. Fine quality merchandise. Multiple selections on items. " more value for your buck". read more

I went in to look around and was checked out by a mean old lady. She told me to put my mask over my nose. I thought she was kidding. I said I am wearing the mask now your going to tell me how to wear it. She told me to get out and never come back to their store. I have never been told they don't need my business. Ok you won't get it any more you mask Nazi. read more

This is a great place to get discounts on great products and new ones you may have not heard of. The employees are great and very helpful. It gets 4 stars because it is not as clean as I would like, but it is a salvage store so it fits the bill. read more

Our visit to Marden's was presented to us as a "shopping trip" in Presque Isle by my date's brother and future sister-in-law. The drive from remote Eagle Lake allowed me plenty of time to envision our casual stroll down main street in Presque Isle. We'd laugh, share stories, and maybe even be licking vanilla soft-serve cones. I'd pick meander through cute little stores selling handcrafted lighthouse Christmas ornaments-- Maine has lighthouses, right? Cute velvet pillows, something with lavender? Something lobstery? I'd carefully select items for loved ones who would adore their one-of-a-kind items upon my return to San Francisco. "Where did you get this adorable [insert name of special crafty special delight] ?" "Oh, just a little something I picked out for you on my trip to MAINE. Holy Feck. Imagine the biggest, nastiest, dirtiest Ross store you've ever been in. Oh, but nothing is new at all. Oh, and everything stinks like rubber because they sell old tires in the back. Not outside in the back, but in the back of the store. Oh, and everything has been run over, smeared with lipstick and rejected by every department store in Maine. I busied myself with a rack of glamorous gowns until, thank GAWD, we finally got into our rented van and took off. My date bought me some expired, lip-shaped, low carb pasta. Hence the one star. read more

Great store!!! A fun browsing experience. Great deals on some odd things.Great if you have the time to browse.helpful staff

. . . So, I bought a pair of shoes at Calais Mardens several weeks ago. I decided I did not like the way they fit, so took them back as they had not been worn. I did not bother to look for the receipt, as I knew that I could get a store credit, and in fact would likely spend more that day, than the shoes cost. When I went to customer service the girl asked me if I had a receipt and I said no. She asked me if I were going to do some shopping, I said yes. She said to return to customer service when I was done and they would take care of the transaction then. While I was shopping, I found the exact same shoes as the ones I was returning. Since the shoes I was returning did not have a price on them, I took them to the counter with me when I was checking out, so that the service desk girl would have the price to see how much I had paid for them. She called a lady to come up from the shoe department and showed her the two pairs of identical shoes. The pair I was returning with no price on them, and the pair I had picked up with a price of $24.99 on them. The girl in the shoe department took the pair that just came from the shelf, crossed out the $24.99 and put $12.99 on them. They then took the box from the shoes I had brought in and marked it $12.99, took out the shoes I had brought back and made some markings on them with a sharpie marker which were foreign to me, but I am sure labeled the shoes as markdowns. The service desk girl told me she could only give me $12.99 for them as they were now marked down. I was stunned to say the least. I said, but you just m marked them down right now in front of me. The shoe department girl said they had gotten overlooked in the markdown and I told her that was not my fault, and it was obvious that the original price had been $24.99. The only responses I could get from the service desk girl is that it was store policy. I checked out and kept the shoes I had paid for. I then hunted down the store manager and reiterated my story. She agreed with the customer service girl that this was store policy and repeated it to me several times as a valid answer. Of course, I had now heard this lame excuse about 6 times. I told the manager I heard her and that it was still a very poor policy and extremely rude to mark an item down right in front of me, mark on the shoe box and shoes that were my property as I had paid for them. They had no right to mark up shoes that were 'mine', bought and paid for. They treated them like they still owned them. I told them I would no longer shop there, and realized that this was not a big deal to them, but that I was upset at the way I had been treated. I also asked the store manager if I had been bringing the $24.99 shoes through the register if I would have been charged $24.99 and she said yes. So, I told her, Mardens is okay with screwing a customer over in front of their face and also with charging them full price for an item they know very well had been discounted. The manager agreed with me. I have run several businesses in my lifetime and it is poor practice to use a customer in this manner over $12.00. If it had been me, I'd have eaten the cost and written it off considering that the price on the item was clearly marked. Of course, I would have recognized right away that the customer was right in this case read more