Posted on 06/17/2016 9:40:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In the wake of the long series of lean economic years since the onset of the Great Recession, America’s affluent millennials have taken to shopping for groceries, toiletries and even clothing at ultra-discount stores such as Dollar General and Family Dollar.
It’s not just Pabst Blue Ribbon-drinking hipsters trying way too hard to be different, either. At Dollar General, members of the millennial generation — of all income brackets — accounted for nearly 25 percent of the company’s first quarter revenue in 2016, reports Reuters.
Millennials, if you are not up on your demographic jargon, are the cohort of young people born roughly between 1980 and 2000. It’s the term baffled academics and journalists have chosen to bestow on the generation after Generation X.
The dollar store-shopping young people found by Reuters say they buy stuff at the stores for the same reason everyone else does: to save cash....
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The kid down the street works at one. He’s polite and helpful.
You have a problem with that?
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“Shopping is bad enough. Imaging having to work there.”
Well you wouldn’t have to put price tags on anything.
the problem with dollar stores is that much of the stuff sold their is super-cheap chinese crap in bottles and containers with logos that LOOK like the real thing, but aren’t. And many of the products such as various liquid cleaners are primarily colored water. I bought some cheap ammonia solution from one a few weeks ago and when I opened it, it barely had any ammonia smell at all it was so weak.
Awesome orange....
their mustard is good...Knopps....they have cheap cookies....variety greeting cards...reading glasses!
I’ll say this: If you can find stuff you use at the Dollar Store, you’re probably doing pretty well. If you just buy crap to buy crap, you are at least saving money.
Certain office supplies there are very cheap. Tape, $1 vs $3 at a stationery store. If that doesn’t matter to you then it doesn’t matter. I buy deodorant there exactly the same brand that’s for sale in stores for $2.79. Dish soap, some cleansers....
If you need cheap/expendable reading glasses or sunglasses they are fantastic.
I will also say that as someone who gets involved in certain legal and estate situations where people have bought and filled their homes with literally kilotons of debris-—decorative plates sitting under plants...greeting cards (which are phenomenally expensive for what they are) and boxes of personalized stationery and wrapping paper and various bric-a-brac-—I have thrown out piles of this kind of thing from houses where probably $20K was spent on it that could have bot at the DS for under $1K. If it iwas so darn important to own it in the first place.
You heard it here. First we had Gen-X, then Gen-Y, and now GenEric. Term GenEric copyright 2016 Webheart.
Oh yeah, the readers better than Walmart, Walgreens, or Target!!
Cheap Chinese cookies might contain melamine like cheap Chinese dog food.
Yeah you remember all that when we defended traditional marriage? I do.
Yet none of that was directed towards the Islamists that beheaded gays and set them on fire. Hmmmm
Is it because they MUST HAVE STUFF and saving takes too long to tickle that itch?
I buy reading glasses there and love them. I can afford to have them all over the house. Got a pair of sunglasses six years ago and still have them. One of my favorite ones ever. I think I got my money’s worth.
The Kinks is one of my favorites. “Come Dancing” is the best.
These are halcyon days in comparison to the mostly empty dollar store shelves for the generation to follow under continued progressive government.
Yeah, I agree - it never occurs to me to go heeled if I’m going out for a cocktail or a steak - poor kids - lessons learned
Do you such on a regular basis?
Just have to hope that your $1 charger does not destroy your $400 phone.
We had two little nieces living with us for a couple weeks while their parents were out of the country. We took them to the water park - an expensive day that they enjoyed moderately. We took them to a petting zoo - again, an expensive day that they enjoyed moderately. We took them to Chuck E. Cheese - big mistake. An expensive day that they hated because they spent the time being pushed out of the way by feral kids.
We gave them each a tenner and took them to the Dollar Store. BEST. DAY. EVER. They talked about it for years after that.
We do not have Aldi’s close but we have Save-A-Lot which is good. I shopped there yesterday because I cannot stand the high prices at my local Kroger store.
He’s actually one of the better homeless guys in our area. We allow him to stay on a property we own that we couldn’t keep other homeless off of even with help from the local sheriff.
Now we have 1 homeless guy who polices the property and keeps it clean.
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that is the way the world used to be in my great-grands and grands times.
Always had a man who lived in the basement and shoveled coal and did chores. Always had at least two women living in and helping out. Always had at least one guy living at the plant and offices who kept things cleaned and repaired.
We are going back to those times, more feudal with corporate allegiances and regional allegiances and with more live ins.
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