MUJI — Local services in Barcelona

The problem with these Muji shops, at least in Barcelona, is that the air-con at some point just becomes too much for me. My eyes start to itch and become very dry and i even have difficulty to breath some times. It's a similar sensation to what I experience when I go to an Ikea store. The mix between the wide variety and amount of textiles everywhere and the air-con on top of your lungs, eyes, nose, its just not for me. This makes my experience with the actual physical environment of the store very unpleasant and I try to spend as little time as possible inside. As for the products they sell, I quite enjoy the stationary and notebooks section and I buy quite regularly those lined small black travel notebooks that are very handy to carry around even in in a large jacket pocket. That's the main item I buy from this shop, although I also enjoy the traditional short sleeve cotton shirts, especially the white ones, which are hard to come buy anywhere else. Some of the 3-button, short sleeved polos are also my favourites. The down side with Muji are the prices, quite high and above the main retail competitors, such as Zara, Springfield and Pull & Bear. Their price range is the same as Massimo Duty, from my experience, with Massimo Duty being even more expensive. Muji specializes mostly in what could be somewhat called traditional japanese cotton and linum garments and you can immediately recognize that from the abundance os such items in various shapes and forms. They also have household items, cutlery, dishware, lots of plastic items and of other materials for the kitchen and for travelling. Another of my favourites is the array o small containers for travel and personal hygiene gear. All in all, its a very interesting brand that proposes quite interesting products with a traditional japanese flavour and practicality. The down sides to me are really the prices and the difficult to breathe atmosphere...

I used to live in Japan so I love MUJI. They have good quality clothes, house & kitchen items. I wish they'd have a more wide variety of food, like they did in Japan and maybe kitchen items as well. Like a rice cooker or a toast oven. They are really good. Their prices aren't cheap but every single time I go there I feel like I've been transported back to Japan: the same atmosphere,...

In my opinion the place and the brand are really overrated, the quality is lacking for the price, everything feels so overpriced for items like just a simple plastic pencil case that can't even fit more than 3-4 pens, the clothes were so low quality for the price that it felt like a joke. The only reason I can see someone shopping there is for...