Posted on 03/06/2019 4:30:52 PM PST by buckalfa
These are good stores, particularly Dollar Tree.
They sell this special brand of BBQ chips for a buck in a big size and not even the 99 cents store sells in L.A. Damn..
BTW, you're not saving money at these stores A package of garbage bags is $1, but you only get about 7-10 bags. I can go to Woodman's and get 40 thirty-gallon bags for $2.50.
No surprise. Too many stores, too close together and in locations with little money.
True - you can save more $$$ doing your homework and shopping around.
But, if you need to pick up some things quickly, Dollar Tree is more like a convenience store - with better prices than other convenience stores (at least around here).
I tend to agree.
The market will sort it out.
Dollar Tree to me is far superior to Family Dollar, which isnt even a dollar store.
Yep, you have to be smart shopper, even in the these Dollar stores. If you count the drive and time to a bigger town with WalMart you may still come out ahead at the Dollars.
“These are good stores, particularly Dollar Tree.”
I LOVE Dollar Tree, I just don’t tell anyone.
When Obozo was pResident these stores did well because nobody had money. Now that the economy is roaring people can spend their money in higher priced stores.
Pawn shops also did well during Obozo’s 8 years. Go figure.
I used to go by Dollar Tree regularly as I could buy cheap gifts for my Grandchildren for almost nothing. For instance a cap gun which shot these single caps which were around 10 times louder than the ones I used to play with.
Every now and then I would find a real deal. Once they had pretty nice scientific calculators for a dollar. Right alongside the nice maybe 50 function ones were extremely basic ones for the same price.
I haven’t been in one in a few years tho.
I laugh, folks in Culleoka Tx by pass their Family Dollar will drive 5 mi to Princeton Tx to shop at their Family Dollar.
Its ritzy and **** in Princeton.
These are probably the 390 stores with the largest numbers of armed robberies in recent years.
I know that sounds illogical.
I hope our family dollar is going to convert to a Dollar Tree, rather than close completely.
I love me a dollar tree. Everything is a buck, or less. The Dollar Store not so much.
I'm not going to spend $1 ($1.06 actually) for 7 trash bags that will break in half when I can a whole roll of 40 for just $2.50.
Besides these stores are packed with Somalis and other refugees
Here the Family Dollars are mostly in bad neighborhoods and are considered ghetto ATMs. Robbed regularly of money and merchandise.
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