The business I work for fronts on a major, fourlane highway. In a shopping plaza (approximately 1/2 miles away) there is a Dollar General. They have very distinctive yellow plastic bags. I now routinely see pedestrians walking along the berm, or thru parking lots, coming from the Dollar General...they are the closest store (to several older housing plans) that sells milk (closest gas station is further away). Sometime I see kids, walking with their parent, and carrying (all together) what looks like several days worth of food (all milk, cereals, crackers, soup cans). It is heartbreaking (and scary—the road is busy)...but I see more and more.
Hoover had soup lines...Obama has lines of walkers on highways who counted change to buy ‘something’ to keep themselves and kids going.
Yes I have seen the exact same scenario that you describe.
The Baraqqi Depression grinds on.
Many on FR seem to confuse Dollar General with the so-called “dollar stores” where everything is a buck.
DG is more like a mini-WalMart. They have a wide variety of things for sale, including food, at a wide variety of prices. They don’t have much inventory of any one item on the shelf, they must have fantastic inventory turnover. They are competing aggressively with WM and in many cases taking business away.