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Family Dollar to close stores as shoppers pinched
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| 04/10/2014
Posted on 04/10/2014 11:57:36 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
I wish there were more Dollar Trees where I live. Those places are awesome! Clean, nice staff, and stuff is actually a dollar!
To: kearnyirish2
“Occasionally, a shopper would wheel up a full cart - and you got the impression we were paying for it...”
Oh, bet the farm, cows and chickens on it.
I went there once with an uncle of mine (Korean War vet who lived in the real USA) and he said to me as we pulled up: “What the f*** are we going to this welfare dump for?”
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:30:21 PM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
To: Responsibility2nd
You know recovery is near when store chains close a significant number of their stores.
/s
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:30:43 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Responsibility2nd
FWIW....I live on a tight budget made doable by cutting corners with careful non-wasteful shopping. Family Dollar and most of the others are nowhere near as good for quality + price on basic items as is Dollar General. It would be nice to know how many of these closing Family Dollar stores compete with a nearby Dollar General.
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:30:55 PM PDT
by
grania
To: ryan71
These are bottom of the barrel, lower than Walmart stores.
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:32:14 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: GOPsterinMA
That’s funny; in the store near me most shoppers seem normal (again, most are just picking up a couple of things).
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:34:32 PM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: Responsibility2nd
Most shoppers at Doller stores don’t have cars so they have to be within walking or bus range.
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:38:02 PM PDT
by
ncfool
(Taking back America 2016.)
To: Responsibility2nd
The dollar stores are close enough in price that most of the time, we don’t drive the extra 12 miles to the nearest Walmart.
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:39:31 PM PDT
by
freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
To: Texas resident
OBUMMER DOES NOT CAR ABOUT RURAL AREAS....
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:39:47 PM PDT
by
ncfool
(Taking back America 2016.)
To: grania
FWIW....I live on a tight budget made doable by cutting corners with careful non-wasteful shopping. Family Dollar and most of the others are nowhere near as good for quality + price on basic items as is Dollar General. It would be nice to know how many of these closing Family Dollar stores compete with a nearby Dollar General.I think you'll find that Dollar Tree is on par with Dollar General. Family Dollar is the pits. The dollar stores have replaced the five and dimes that used to be everywhere. I think they fill a huge niche that was left vacant when Woolworth's shut down its entire chain of money-losing five and dimes and renamed itself Foot Locker.
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:39:59 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Responsibility2nd
That’s funny - closing 370 stores - they just opened one here about a month ago.
To: Responsibility2nd
Brother can you spare a dollar!
To: kearnyirish2
The one that I went to is very...(find a semi-PC term)...seedy.
The shoppers were...(find another semi-PC term)...not normal. Think PJ wearing types.
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:44:23 PM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
To: Tax-chick
Where I live, I have Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Everything’s A Dollar, Dollar Time and Big Dollar Store, plus Family Dollar and Big Lots. I thought it might have to do with this being a distressed neighborhood. Seems that low income communities are fertile grounds for discounters and check cashing/payday loan businesses.
To: freedomfiter2
12 miles to the nearest Walmart? Man you must live in the boonies!
Within a 12 mile radius of my house there are 7 Walmarts
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:44:45 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: Zhang Fei
Both Dollar Tree and Family Dollar are good. It depends what you’re purchasing. The others are the pits, I agree.
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:45:10 PM PDT
by
grania
To: GOPsterinMA
I get the picture; I see them here in bodegas at lunchtime (when they’ve just rolled out of bed). You know, the bodegas that advertise in Spanish that they accept EBT...
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:46:36 PM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: Responsibility2nd
Around here Family Dollar seems to have most of their stores located deep in “the ‘hood”. Probably makes sense to close them.
To: ozarkgirl
Thats funny - closing 370 stores - they just opened one here about a month ago.
That's how you sell stock to investors who are too stupid to grasp the concept of "comp store sales".
To: buffaloguy
I forgot to mention the Goodwills....if you're a careful shopper with an eye for value you can make some great deals....
DG for me is where I go for party stuff like paper plates, balloons, etc....
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posted on
04/10/2014 12:50:51 PM PDT
by
cherry
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