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.
I’ve walked out of Dollar General leaving items in a basket on the floor where I stood in line; when there are about a dozen people on line, they MIGHT open a second register. Also, they don’t hire the best & brightest; every transaction seems to take forever. Thankfully we still have plenty of alternatives.