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.
Dollar Tree to me is far superior to Family Dollar, which isnt even a dollar store.
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 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 took pictures of one of them to send to Corp. but some one must have beaten me two it as a couple days later they actually ran a vacuum on the floor after MONTHS. They even pick up the quarter sized cockroach that greeted you at the door (inside the building)
Order of favor:
Dollar General
Dollar Tree
Family Dollar
Dollar General is far ahead in the pack. They have more name brand items at lower prices.
Ah, it’s not like the workers are getting murdered.
In this good economy, it might be the push they need to move on to bigger and better :)
Always hard at first, but sometimes great things come from what seems bad.
Reading glasses, sunglasses, batteries, and greeting cards are great money-savers from the dollar stores. I would never get anything claiming to be edible there, though.
I like Dollar Tree. Everything is still a dollar. When I get the sh*ts I can run over to the local store, pick up some anti-diarrheal capsules, get checked out, and get back home before you can say ....
Sure beats Wally World where you have to fight the heathens for a handicapped parking space, endure a search through the section of the store where the capsules used to be, go to the new location and if you are lucky find they are still in stock, then wait endlessly in line for the one or two checkers on duty to take your cash and wish you a happy day.(Yeh, right)
When you are a my age (75) and not a participant of the cashless society, the automated checkouts are a waste of time. I can’t see the readouts (nearly blind), can’t follow the directions (easily confused), can’t hear clearly, etc. BUT, once I got to the point of getting through the automated routine only to find the dumb machine did not take cash and make change. So back to the long line at the regular checkout with my cash in hand.
BTW I noticed a couple of other customers (?) bystanders with chains, tattoos, and assorted body piercings who evidently thought it was funny to watch the old 20th century guy fighting progress. A few years ago, I would have kicked their a$$e$. OTOH, Wally World still has MENs rooms (for plan B). But that is another story....
Bottom Line: If you want to getter her done - Go to the Dollar Tree.
I shop there for greeting cards, 2 for $1. otherwise I see them as China import stores - huge majority of the items are made in china it seems.
Here in Alabama, there is a Dollar General in every wide spot in the road town. They are really convenient when the nearest big box store is 20-30 minutes away. Even the one near my house is often preferable to driving to Wally World or Winn Dixie, which are less that ten minutes away, but on a heavily traveled highway.
They seem to have over-saturated...some areas have the various “Dollar” stores withing a mile of each other in all directions.
Wonder him much some states raising their minimum wage had to do with this....
The one near my office always has the appearance of being looted. Stuff on the floor, empty boxes everywhere, half empty shelves and one personworking the register and many people on line..