Posted on 08/21/2021 11:22:21 AM PDT by conservative98
Kyle Dishman can't afford to shop at the local grocery store anymore. Instead he goes to Dollar General, where he can make $40 stretch into a week's worth of groceries and the occasional can of motor oil for his Chrysler 300.
He sticks with pasta, frozen pizza and canned vegetables, fully aware that "any food you can buy for only $1 is not the greatest for you." But Dishman says prices have gone up so much that he's started rationing his food.
"When you only have a certain amount to spend, it's like, why not just go to the dollar store?" he said.
A growing number of Americans are relying on dollar stores for everyday needs, especially groceries, as the coronavirus pandemic drags into its 18th month. Chains such as Dollar General and Dollar Tree are reporting blockbuster sales and profits, and proliferating so quickly that some U.S. cities want to limit their growth. The 1,650 dollar stores expected to open this year represent nearly half of all new national retail openings, according to Coresight Research.
(Excerpt) Read more at stamfordadvocate.com ...
that quaint old saying..."cavet emptor"....
I bet most people don't realize that when a store has a "buy one, get 2nd one half off" is really just saying 25% off except they get you to buy two items instead of one....
If it is made in the USA and sold in the Dollar store then it was and oversight.
greeting cards...gift bags...cleaning supplies...candles...matches...I fondly remember buying 8 bottles of hand disinfectant about 8oz each back in early March of 2020.
Hey Free Traitors™ I thought Chinese wage slaves making everything instead of “lazy stupid Americans” ensured we’d have cheap crap all the time. What happened?
I remember doing ALL my shopping at the 5 and dime for Christmas as a kid....able to buy something for my 4 brothers, my sister and my parents, all for probably 3-4 bucks....
Offshoring and the globalist store fronts that support it are engines of wealth destruction...
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