Dollarama officially opens an online store in Canada

Dollarama testing e-commerce site Dollarama is looking to establish an online store, but it has some features consumers may not love. Jon Erlichman and Amber Kanwar explain.

Dollarama officially opened its online store in Canada on Monday, which allows customers to buy a number of their products in bulk.

The online store will feature approximately 1,000 different products, according to a press release.

All of the online items are also found in the company's 1,203 brick-and-mortar stores across Canada.

The company said the country-wide launch follows a successful, five-week pilot program in Quebec, which launched in mid-December.

Similar to Costco Wholesale, Dollarama says it’s hoping it can entice consumers looking to buy in bulk. For urban areas, the store will ship any order for a flat rate shipping rate of $18.

But that rate could be slightly higher depending on where customers live.

As per its website, Dollarama does not ship "to a few limited geographic areas within Canada."