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....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
One can really see price differences on like-item or same-item.
Several years ago, I looked at a bottle of car finish. It was $8 at Walmart, $5 at Dollar General and $3 at Family Dollar. Same size, same brand.
Recently I noticed a $3 price difference on the same-size, same-brand instant coffee. A local high-dollar grocery was that much higher than Walmart. However, their store brand of regular coffee is $6 for 34 oz can, whereas Walmart is $8 for their 27 oz store brand.
A couple of years ago I looked online for some boric acid for an ant problem. Some stores were selling small containers for upwards of $50. The local Dollar General had a 1-lb container for $2.
My local Aldi’s frequently has a dozen eggs for $1.50 or less and many times under $1.00. The two other major grocery competitors never have egg prices that low.
It does pay to shop around, as prices can vary greatly — even in my small two of 14,000 population.
Interesting. Thanks, I’ll have to investigate that.
Everyone in my area shops at Dollar Tree.
Astonishing bargains.
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In Queens, we had a chain called John’s Bargain Stores.
| Hi Albion, here's my thinking... Chinese and Asian-made product are everywhere in American stores. And it's not limited to Dollar Stores. Every major retailer you can name is sourcing from Asia. But if you eliminate low cost sourcing, then 50% of stores in America would close forever because the stores could not afford to hire the workers walking the aisles. So there's a trade-off, I think. The answer, I think, is to enable American manufactured goods to be sold in China -- that's what's being blocked today by currency manipulation and America issuing more bonds (debt) that the Chinese are buying. That's what needs to stop, and that's the focus of Trump's policy I think. IMO, there no clear cut answers to trade problems. But clearly, our policy today does not promote JOBS. 90 million people are out of the workforce. Longer term, the only hope for American jobs is entrepreneurs who create local jobs. The Fortune 500 are globalists. You can put pressure on them to keep jobs in USA, but that won't be effective forever. We need to eliminate the regulations (like the job killing Obama Care) to enable entrepreneurs to create jobs and prosperity for all. So that's one guy's opinion. |
We have a grandson that stays with us quite a bit. Every time he comes he wants to go to the Dollar Tree.
We have a boat where I go stay by myself all the time. I usually buy my groceries at the 99c Store. I can spend $20, stay a week on the boat, and bring half my groceries home.
| A suggestion for you on home brewed coffee... You should try Korean instant coffee, Mocha Gold. Here's what's different. Do you remember those little capsules you buy in your grocery store that go in a coffee making machine? This product eliminates the need for that entirely. You buy a bag of 100 packets. And get this: inside the packet is a complete cup of coffee -- everything, the freeze dried coffee, real dried milk, and sugar. All you do is add hot water from your microwave. Buy the 100 packet bags at your local Asian supermarket. Or get it on line. I'm hooked. The cost of each cup of coffee is only 15 cents and the coffee flavor is excellent. This is definitely a high-tech product. And the secret is in how they process the milk and make it taste natural instead of the usual bland dried milk taste. |
I think Trump will be all over these problems!
Being a plumbing contractor I had also donated 2 good quality portable showers which were used more than anything there, especially to cook drugs and have sex in
This was set up next the food kitchen. .separate building.
6 months ago all was closed... sad but understandable. Long story. ..after 5 years of running somewhat successfully on almost all private $$$
At this point I've lost faith in expecting the 99% of those in need having an interest in learning to take care of themselves much less be a part of helping others ....
Disappointing
These are halcyon days in comparison to the mostly empty dollar store shelves for the generation to follow under continued progressive government.
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Right. These kids cannot draw logical conclusions, having intentionally been denied courses in basic thinking skills.
Nosy the push now to “tiny houses”? I even saw a tv show on the the other night trying to make it “hip” to build a hose out of a cargo container.
They are easing the next generation into third world poverty status.
“My experience is that isn’t true in Dollar General. Household supplies, some foods, greeting cards and personal hygiene products are reasonably priced, and surprisingly often made in USA. “
thanks. good information; maybe i stopped in at the wrong dollar store, namely Dollar Tree, which is all we’ve got in my area and appear to me to be nearly worthless. i’ll take a look at a Dollar General sometime if i’m ever near one.
Yeah, instant beer!
My 28-year old "kid" caught the "tiny house" trend.
She's going to graduate school at UC Berkeley so she figured it would be good to save some money on rent which is very high in the Oakland area. So here's the horror story with a somewhat happy ending:
This is what's called an education in tiny home ownership :- )
Actually, I’ve found plastic food containers/pitchers that were made in the US at a Dollar General, and haven’t seen that anywhere else.
Dollar Tree is good for one or two of the smaller American soap manufacturers (7 oz bars without cheap terrible ingredients).
You certainly do have to read the labels, but the dollar stores stock smaller manufacturers and unlike the bigger brands, some of these are still US made.
I agree with your observations about the smaller brands, like jellies and candies.
I wouldn’t buy anything to eat or liquids to clean in a dollar store.
They sell the garbage that China sells to third world countries.
I have bought wedding champagne flutes, some wrapping papers and bags. and some party decorations. that is about it.
You just nailed it. I've been trying to formulate what has been in the back of my mind when I see all these little (no pun intended) "cutesy" articles and vids about "the fun smaller living".
You just nailed it. I’ve been trying to formulate what has been in the back of my mind when I see all these little (no pun intended) “cutesy” articles and vids about “the fun smaller living”.
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Yep, shove ‘em into tiny houses, pack ‘em into urban centers, make it harder and harder for cars to be produced—they want the young to see this as normal. “Do not aspire, here’s your legal marijuana, your painkillers (opiates), your crappy job, and your food stamps. Isn’t this swell??”
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