Who remembers the Five and Dime stores like Woolwoth and Kesge?
Items that are $5.00 today were 5¢ and 10¢ back in the 1950s.
I used to like getting the cheap $1 cologne there
Can’t anymore - long gone
You get what you pay for. Most of the stuff in Dollar Tree has always been cheap junk.
They just built 6 of them here around the lake (Henderson County, TX).
I thought I heard some old coot shouting about how great our economy is on TV last week… 🤔
Ours is always busy. (SW Wisconsin) Hope it stays. I have a number of NON-CHINA items that I buy there on a regular basis.
Not long ago, everything at 99 Cents Only stores cost $.99. Now, very few items can be had for that price.
RuhRoh! Mrs rktman will not be pleased. Guess Dollar General might get demoted to colonel soon......
Who remembers the Five and Dime stores like Woolwoth and Kesge?
Items that are $5.00 today were 5¢ and 10¢ back in the 1950s.
Pretty soon there won’t be any places left to loot...except private residences.
Little Caesars standard Pizza was $5.00 for many years.
Now, in the FJB Biden era, the price has gone up 60% to $8.00 or more.
But the Feral government says we are only experiencing minor inflation in the low single digits.
Meanwhile Dolgencorp (Dollar General) just keeps building more and more stores. One was just constructed right across the Susquehanna River from another, and a bridge within a mile of both stores.
I wonder if the Levine family is completely out of the Family Dollar business? Leon Levine lived in a huge house on Sharon Road in Charlotte. Guess the family still owns the property as I read about him passing recently. I met him once, told him I owned some Family Dollar stock. I mentioned it was down. He said “Time to buy some more”. Eventually sold it at a gain. He was right.
I’m old. I remember doing to five and dime stores. Then Dollar Stores.
What will we soon call low value stores where basic items are Ten Dollars?
Chicongo, Sanfransicko, Orcland etc. will probably be on the chopping block.
Best. Economy. Ever.
Dollar Tree has a nice $5 knockoff of the Apple wireless earbuds, charging case (micro USB connector, so you may need to pick up one of those cables while you're there), good battery life, decent sound. Charge them in the case overnight before using. You'll probably have to hunt to find them, or order 20 for $125 (plus shipping) off the website. There are two (soon three) wireless earbuds there, thee item I've used is linked in my tagline.
Dollar Tree is still worth shopping. Dollar General and Family Dollar haven’t been for a very long time. I was sad when Dollar Tree merged in some locations. In the merged stores 88% of the Dollar Tree stuff is long gone. The other stuff is priced higher than the local WalMart. Shoppers aren’t stupid -— especially those who pinch pennies. Just because the name says “dollar” -— well, as I said, Americans aren’t stupid. I, like many others, will continue to go to the pure Dollar Tree stores and skip the other two pretend dollar stores altogether. Just my two cents.
What will go into those soon to be empty stores? Quarter stores? Or will it be empty like big boxes are?
If stores like Family Dollar can’t make it, then I guess we’ve all been lied to by the Biden administration about the state of the economy & inflation. I don’t know about everybody else’s thoughts, but I think the Court system has been playing “ring around the rosey” with the wrong person or persons.
Dollar Tree has always been a better bargain than Family Dollar. Dollar Tree has always been a true dollar store (or $1.25 store now), in that virtually everything in the store was $1.00 and is now $1.25. Family Dollar is more of a discount store, and not particularly competitive with places like Wallmart. Only a small fraction of their merchandise was ever $1.00. I became familiar with both, a few years back, when I was experiencing some lean economic times. Dollar Tree was always the better value.
