Posted on 04/11/2024 2:41:10 PM PDT by george76
Dollar General seems to be doing fine. The one close to my house is convenient and always busy.
Didn’t these used to be called 5 & 10 cent stores a few decades ago?
Not Biden’s fault. Not the big city DA’s faults. It’s the fault of the stores themselves. Got it?
ABC bad reporting.
Since Dollar Tree and Family Dollar merged they have been building new stores from the ground up with both brands in a side. I’ve seen them in rural areas.
Thus they “close” the two older individual stores.
And they now have the DG Markets. I haven’t been in one, but they have more fresh foods.
Must be someplace else because I know of at least 3 new ones being built.
That would be great!
this story hasn’t made sense to me since it first started circulating. The few I’ve seen around the country are located in areas where there are no walmarts around, so they’re the only game in the area. thought it was a great strategy.
0’Bidenomics did it, not “themselves”.
Woolworths /Murphys/McCrorys
i miss them all
I don’t have a single complaint about any of the dollar-type stores around me. The stores are clean, the employees are friendly, and the prices are reasonable.
But then again, I have no idea about how much shoplifting is going on in those stores.
It is the stores fault GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!!!
A lot of people use the dollar stores here to stretch their food dollar as the prices are so much better. That’s probably the incentive for the DOJ whacking them with a $41 million dollar BS fine for a victimless crime. Either that or the DOJ is out to lawfare them because their merchandise out on shelves is disproportionately tempting/targeting “justice impacted individuals” in the hood.
other things are not good buys either....
however, if you wanted some cheap disposable utensils they got them...or clear plastic tongs...or plastic or shiny plastic serving platters....
the big mistake was increasing prices....even a quarter more was too much....
I’ve heard reports that DG has been overcharging customers by charging more than the price listed on the item. Don’t know how that could have happened, but I agree in that there is one close to my area and it’s very convenient.
I’m starting to see it more and more on social media - blame the business, even small businesses. “If they can’t figure out how to make money, then they deserve to close.”
They have no clue about life. None.
Family Dollar was basically a rural based chain like DG until the early 2000s when they aggressively went into the urban market. Initially, this worked well for them. They became the urban source for many of the low cost basics WalMart sold. Walmart never attempted the urban market. As with every other retailer in urban areas, the explosion of black retail theft destroyed the market.
Go into the urban market now and you will find the only stores left are wine/tobacco/lottery/bodega snack operations ran by Arab immigrants. It is truly a miserable situation brought about by lax law enforcement and terrible urban black mores.
I shop in a DG all the time.
Think about it...they were all-in on the Juicy Fruit/MAGA hat garbage...
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