I too, love a bargain. Next to it is a Family Dollar store.
Hey I just looked it up and there’s TWO on Staten Island and one 11 minutes away in NJ :)
I know mom and sisters go to some dollar store but i know there’s a few with the word Dollar in it.
If they sell soda or junk food I’ll check it out :)
And you’re right.
As I have gotten past the big 50, I disdain paying more than I have to for many items.
Squandering is for the young and the foolish :)
Now the Challenger, that was different!! :)
Not the highest quality around, but you can make a pretty good bug out bag with the dollar stores.
Now where, oh where could all the cheap imported stuff be from?
Hmm.
So puzzling.
“there goes the neighborhood” was my first thought when the sign went up during construction in the rural area i reside... a couple of years later the convenience factor changed my perception...
genius move on their part...
What an odd title considering that Dollar General is a large and successful corporation.
Their market cap is 40 billion dollars.
Dollar General is over-saturating their market though. Right now, they are how Subway used to be before Subway had to contract many of their locations. We are seeing just as many DG’s as Mc’Donalds locally. Then you have the Family Dollar and Dollar Tree added in with that.
I don’t find DG to be particularly special when it comes to ‘deals’ anyway. I think that’s way overblown, because the quality of the products is also lower than you can get at other stores. Not to mention the service takes a hit. Certainly, DG Corp saves some money on having a sparse amount of employees manning the store at any given time.
Now, I’m all for keeping an employee busy, however, what DG does is it has their cashiers keep busy by also being required to stock shelves, deal with inventory of returns and damaged goods. What this means for customers, in my experience, is that you are commonly left waiting in line longer than you really should be. If DG is doing such gangbuster business that they keep popping up stores each mile of the highway, then they should be able to properly man the store as well.
went to one dollar general in my life, it was much more expensive than dollar tree which is very common in my area. I mostly buy greeting cards(2 for $1) and reading glasses ($1). food not worth it.
99cents plus stores some times have decent produce, but again rest of their food not really worth it unless you want to gain weight.
I do try to support the USA made things so I limit what I buy from these places - even the produce, if it’s mexico, i think twice and most times don’t get it even if a great bargain.
Dollar tree is really the better store. They have everything and it is a buck. Dollar general is cheep, but not a dollar.
Dollar TREE is the better store.
Dollar General, not so much. IMHO
Dollar General = ChiCom store front. The PLAN thanks you for shopping.
I have a dollar store near me. Lots of good hardware stuff there. Also computer and phone accessories. Of course items come and go. Also bought some v good hot sauce that calls itself “Cajun Certified”. Nice and thick, not too vinegary and not crazy hot.
Dollar General is a God send to urban neighborhoods. I serviced them for years in Cincinnati ghettos. For paper goods and necessities they are competitive with WalMart. I also had an urban Kroger that had 90% of the fruits and vegetables spoil year in, year out. People are going to eat what they want. If you want to change inner city eating habits, change what is eligible on EBT cards. If people will buy it, the market will provide it. Chasing out the dollar stores is the most anti poor thing, other than electing democrats, you could do in the inner cities.
A couple of years ago, Dollar General closed the two stores in this town, due to excessive theft.
I live out in the county in between two small towns. They put a Dollar General up on the interstate just about a 1/2 mile from the house. I don’t know about prices, don’t pay any attention but I do know about convenience and it keeps me from having to run into town and deal with Walmart.
Basically they are lil rural super walmarts.
In Tampa, there are two Dollar General within half mile of each other...Nebraska Avenue in Tampa is nicknamed ‘Family Dollar Avenue’, since there’s 6 Family Dollars on the street. We like dollar stores...
Check the prices carefully. I bought toy for my dog at Walmart for 94 cents that was $3 at Dollar General for the same thing.