Brattleboro North Shopping Plaza Shopping Center — Local services in Brattleboro

The stores are great but there are ALWAYS panhandlers. I've been approached several times but people asking me to buy them alcohol with the money I just watched them beg other customers for. I understand they need help. I have a ton of empathy for them because I've been homeless myself. But some of them get really ugly and disrespectful if you tell them you don't have anything to give. I'm not too far off from being homeless again so I am unable to help out usually. The 1 time I did, I gave the guy 5 dollars. He said he was starving and needed to eat which is why I end ahead and gave it to him. My very last 5 dollars. He turns around and says thank you, could you now take that 5 dollars and get me some beer. It makes me not want to help...

Very large parking lot always find a spot, There's a bank at one end of the parking lot, and there's a Tito's Taco Restaurant at the front of the parking lot to the Right Side. Multiple entrances to the complex, helps avoid traffic congestion. Stores include Hannaford's, a Wallgreens Pharmacy, a Barber shop, a nail salon, and a whippersnappers.

Sadly half the complex is unused and is boarded up Warehouse Size building that once housed a large department store, that is no longer used.

Prices and the unsightly unoccupied boarded up building on the south side of the building is the reasons for...

Overpriced junk and you wait FOREVER to be checked out. There's usually just 1 register open and someone who is new, slow, both, or just doesn't care running it- IF you can find them. I have good there for 5 minutes waiting for anyone to come by a couple times now. And they are never open on Sundays- the only craft store in town and one whole weekend day shuttered. Extremely poorly run business. I'd give it negative...