Dollar General - Why They're Successful

[@Why_It]

I'd like to see a three-way comparison between Dollar general, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar.

[@Caddynars]

It would be interesting, especially given Dollar Tree’s purchase of Family Dollar last year.

[@artate92]

does biglots qualify to be included? whenever i see one of any of these, i see at least one of the others in the same area

[@prissynonee1999]

umm, they are the same company

[@Caddynars]

prissy nonee Dollar Tree and Family Dollar are now, but before Dollar Tree acquired Family Dollar, they were separate organizations.

[@prissynonee1999]

@@Caddynars well...duh! they own all three now

[@viyami]

Please do Dollar Tree, the only Dollar Store where everything is actually $1 (or less.)

[@SWLinPHX]

We have those everywhere here. Great concept!

[@hardkombucha]

Same company as this video

[@brian87cam99]

I heard they're going bankrupt, Idk tho I literally just heard it I dont have any evidence to back it up

[@Smythe417]

I work at a dollar tree. Its very interesting how they push the definition of what's worth a dollar. I stock shelves so I see it first hand. It's insane what you can get for a buck

[@isabella-og7wn]

Jason Smith ikr, they have cutlery, plates, house decorations, books and kids toys, pretty large amounts of various foods, it's awesome!!!

[@prestinryan5373]

This video just made me laugh. I used to work at a Dollar General and our district manager would always get upset if we ever called it a dollar store. She would say, "We aren't a dollar store, we're Dollar General".

[@Casey-uk3wy]

Hahaha I remember my DM. He was useless. I remember when my store was remodeled he said he wasn't helping unload the 2 trucks that had new check outs and shelves and other crap. The rvp or something called him made him get in that trailer

[@emilyroan8106]

Saaaammmmeeeeee

[@hkaden6815]

Dollar has been used so much in this comment section it doesn’t looks like a word anymore

[@israelarechiga9214]

Working there sucked 😂

[@ginacleveland7995]

The same thing over at Family Dollar! And I've worked for BOTH companies!!!😏🤪

[@PWarren4]

When you're traveling through the south and see a pile of dirt beside the highway, don't disturb it - there's a Dollar General about to hatch

[@aa-tx7th]

jesus fucking christ i died

[@audreyrobinson9825]

my mom and I always joke that if you plant a dollar in Mississippi soil, a Dollar General will start to sprout the next week

[@MrMann-dw5uh]

It wouldn't surprise me if DG built a store on the highway so that passerbys would have to buy something in order to pass the tollbooth.

[@retrobabesaves2522]

@@MrMann-dw5uh there is a store in Rice, VA on the highway..I think maybe 60 people live there lol

[@danseth5775]

@@retrobabesaves2522 in Slidell Louisiana , you literally can't drive two miles without seeing a Dollar General or a Family Dollar

[@genebateman3183]

Ah, Dollar General. I remember when it was Dollar Second Lieutenant.

[@quackxhead]

LMAO UNDERRATED COMMENT

[@jgz2065]

quackxhead LMAO OMG

[@oak9789]

Hay-penny Corporal

[@djhaloeight]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@coachb2766]

Clever but bad W

[@chrislives]

I've never heard someone so cheerily state that the economy is failing more and more people

[@TheMuncyWolverine]

for real, jesus

[@Pengowirr]

@Zachary Rugar no we dont

[@QueenRenne]

Zachary Rugar ...#FakeNews 🙄

[@joeysixtysix]

The economy is doing very well. Not sure where this idea that it's bad is coming from. The facts show differently.

[@AsukaLangleyS02]

@@Pengowirr More people are leaving the middle class for the upper class. Have some reality check :P

[@Jeffmorgan83]

It's expensive to be poor in America.

[@Elonmuskit]

Jeffmorgan83 sult

[@keturah7749]

Jeffmorgan83 that’s why you gotta get rich

[@cturn9494]

“Better” yourself.

[@catherinefowler3249]

It definitely IS expensive to be poor in America!!!

[@295g295]

9:25

[@BangBang-hk4rg]

The closest Walmart to my house is 30 minutes away. The closest Dollar General to my house is 10 minutes away. That is how DG is competing with Walmart.

[@nomadjensen8276]

Yup little stores in the inbetween counties around big cities. they put the DG stores in areas that are 30 mins or more away from walmart.

[@OakTreeIsaac]

My dollar store is 10 minutes In walking distance.

[@Ameute]

Same here. Wellington, NV everyone was against it being built. Now, why drive an hour into town to get milk when the dollar general is just 10min? Family still does it’s big purchase in town but in a pinch or just to tired after work I go in.

[@justinmoore8934]

For me it’s like a 30 minute ride to Walmart vs a 10 minute walk but driving it’s been more like 1 minute

[@daltonweathersby1320]

Closest one is 1 minute from me

[@jamesanderson6373]

When Walmart is a luxury there's dollar general.

[@SuperDevolution]

More like when Walmart is 30 miles away, there's Dollar General.

[@jamesanderson6373]

@@SuperDevolution 🤔😜😝

[@emmettturner9452]

@@SuperDevolution Exactly. It's why they'll have, like, 7 of them in the same town that has a Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart will be in a commercial district surrounded by other shops while most Dollar General stores will be nestled between neighborhoods. Again: Same town.

[@jimsuniverse4954]

Dollar Tree is even better imo.

[@ninjabot567]

@@emmettturner9452 Agreed. The "Super-Walmart" near my house is always understaffed and the line takes like 15-20 minutes to buy one item. The Dollar General down the street has 70% of what walmart has for home goods, and takes 5 minutes total.

[@BugsyFoga]

Dollar General: A company that hasn't even fell the slightest Me:"Is that even legal for this channel "

[@assasin096]

This is Why They're Successful, not Rise and Fall lol

[@cmdraftbrn]

@@assasin096 til those towns revolt.

[@rcairforceone]

@@cmdraftbrn I don't think we'll see a revolt against the dollar stores anytime soon lol.

[@39zack]

Palpatine: I will make it legal

[@cmdraftbrn]

@@rcairforceone depends on when their lucrative contracts expire. some towns have started to push back against them. but a mass revolt isnt likely anytime soon

[@Deoxys911]

My town doesn't even have a bank or a McDonald's, yet we have Dollar General.

[@eddieevans6631]

A lot of small towns don't have McDonald's or any fast food restaurant of any kind

[@aeginasblog7200]

what town is it?

[@eddieevans6631]

Drumright oiltion Maysville the last time I was in Marlow Eakly and Cordell they didn't have one . There all in Oklahoma

[@LegitDalton]

My town has a bank but no fast food. We have a dollar general though. There used to be a mini Walmart but they left so Dollar General took the building.

[@liamtahaney713]

@@LegitDalton what's a mini Walmart? Also, if you don't mind me asking, is it a big bank (TD, BoA, Zion, SunTrust, etc) or a small, local one? Just curious.

[@Freexnme]

I have never seen more than two employees at a time in my local DG, one register is always closed but yet they still say they’re hiring.

[@landanross2966]

No one wants to work for them, they have HIGH, HIGH employee turnover. It’s stressful work and they pay like… a discount retail store

[@Meaninglessfate]

@@landanross2966 its true, I was going crazy and made it to assistant manager because nobody else would take it lol I finally quit and my mental health got better

[@haleighk4499]

The only time more than 2 employees are working at the same time is on Saturdays. Thats the busiest day of the week due to the $5 off $25 coupon, plus truck comes on Fridays (supposed to) so 2-3 extra employees not including the cashier, will always work on Saturdays to put up truck.

[@unknown_wonder]

They don't pay very much, they expect way to much from us.. That's only the beginning, but the store I work at we are understaff.. Meaning the mangers and assistant manager have to do doubles..

[@SynZ777]

There should be at least 4 people in one store-- one recovering (making shelves look good), one cashier, one stocker, and a store manager. But the issue lies in that the company treats us like garbage and the shitty pay isn't worth it.

[@uba754]

“It’s so nice to see a company doing well.” If DG is doing well many people are doing poorly.

[@kaibaCorpHQ]

Yeah, I'd rather be seeing them do bad lol.

[@honolulublues5548]

Not completely. They also put their stores in smaller towns. People shop there only because of convenience. Instead of going into town 15 mikes away, they can go about a mile for certain things.

[@florix1057]

@@kaibaCorpHQ lmao says literally kaibacorp

[@KylesYTChannel]

@@honolulublues5548 Yeah, I knew people who lived in the middle of nowhere who just went to Dollar General because it's close.

[@tinkrr4878]

That's not necessarily true. Our population has grown by roughly 100 million people since 1960, a lot of that are poor immigrants. Yes we have more poor people by our standards, but a lot of those people were far more poor in their homeland.

[@AgressiveElevatorMusic]

It’s poverty. There is always a DG in poor neighborhoods.

[@EntryLevelLuxury]

Aggressive Elevator Music I deliberately leave my nice neighborhood to go to the Dollar Tree...

[@alvallac2171]

@Lil Bibby *nowhere *cornfield *towns. DG *they're not (contraction of "THEY aRE") *America.

[@jcw4969]

@@alvallac2171 why must you do this

[@hello-ef4bn]

@@alvallac2171 I wish we could dislike comments

[@brianfong5711]

Dollar General, bringing property values down faster than homeless shelters/people.

[@chumbawaumbacumpa]

It’s because they’re in EVERY small town. They’re like rampant little Wal-Marts.

[@andrewslawson5969]

As a small town American I can confirm this is true

[@mrwheatthins2413]

Yep. They're either in small towns that don't have their own lock brand stores or they're in poor neighborhoods like ghettos

[@oscarsanz4434]

I live in a small town, 15k and the next town 15 miles, away, has 8k residents. But there's a little town with like 300 residents between us. And they built a dollar general there lol I was like what the heck.

[@chumbawaumbacumpa]

Oscar Sanz haha yeah, I’m in Oregon and they’re popping up in every single town.

[@oscarsanz4434]

@@chumbawaumbacumpa I'm in northern California, dollar general is heading I5 all the way up to Canada lol

[@benjaminwatt2436]

When you mentioned you are paying more per unit, i was happy to hear that. I tell people all the time i don't go to dollar stores because they're expensive for what you get, and no one believes me

[@johnna4487]

This is what keeps poor people poor.

[@jimbendtsen8841]

"I like the Dollar store, because I don't have to get all fancied up, like when I go to Wal-Mart"

[@markbriggs5531]

That made me chuckle! I'm from the UK Jim - we don't have Dollar store or Wal-Mart but we have Asda and it's the same - I feel so over dressed in my muddy wellington boots and ripped jeans! lol

[@randomnonsense2259]

I see people going in pyjamas and flip flops to Wal-Mart so don't know what you mean "get all fancied up"

[@boodro2122]

😂

[@frightenedsoul]

Random Nonsense - wow I can’t believe how far over your head the joke went

[@frightenedsoul]

Random Nonsense - I’m just pointing out that what you’re saying is an inherent part of the joke. So explaining the joke is really cringe.

[@justic14]

my ex lives in the middle of nowhere and i remember when dollar general came to town and opened a shop in the middle of a field

[@TheLionAndTheLamb777]

That happened near to where I live as well. Suddenly there was just a Dollar General on that road now.

[@blitzir]

if a tornado comes, its said and done.

[@Seven_Leaf]

That's how the General does it, don't fight it, The General will solo 1v1 Walmart one day.

[@MrsButtersworth82]

I would love to hear how Dollar Tree stays in business. EVERYTHING is $1 there and they’ve been around for a long time.

[@chaschuky999]

I believe it's because they buy in large bulk and by purchasing potentially somewhat older merchandise. I'm not sure but I would assume that's how they can make profit with such minimal cost.

[@ThatGuy-vi8ch]

Mostly bulk buys and unsold product buys. That's why they can have beer mugs for $1 that in value of the glass alone is more, they didn't sell somewhere else and anything is better than nothing at some point.

[@justinc.7742]

They don't sell everything for $1.00, in fact most of their items are more. From what I've found is they dont have very good prices, but they open up in neighborhoods that dont have a grocery store with in say a mile, they count on the convince of not having to drive to the actual grocery store to get what you need.

[@mickael486]

Agreed. Dollar General should be called Dollar Generally. Their prices are more than Walmart.

[@justinc.7742]

@@mickael486 every now and then you might catch a sale, but most of the prices are indeed higher than Wal-Mart. The closest Wal-Mart to me is a neighborhood market and it's about 3 miles away, dollar General is 2 blocks from my house.

[@garethbaus5471]

I find it interesting how dollar general is out competing small town grocery stores while not having the product range to actually replace grocery stores.

[@seththomas9105]

Because the American Diet Food Pyramid is now Frozen, Boxed, Canned, Pre-Packaged and Pre-Portioned. My hometown (Pop,1600) had two good sized full service grocery stores in 2000. The last one closed this spring. Dollar General opened up 2 years ago.

[@sherrygoodrich8395]

It's all unhealthy processed food. Almost everything has sugar in it

[@garethbaus5471]

@@sherrygoodrich8395 That is why dollar general can't replace a grocery store.

[@sherrygoodrich8395]

@@garethbaus5471 or whole foods! People need to eat organic and clean to live long lives.

[@austinhenshaw2140]

@@sherrygoodrich8395 organic is not superior and oftentimes is just a marketing fad.

[@frostbyte761]

From my experience as a Dollar General Employee, the people in the area who come into the store simply don't have another choice based on how far away our store is from a major retail store as well as price manipulation. The customer doesn't always know (in my area) that if they were to go outside town a little bit they can get a better product at a better price, so convenience at a cost basically. In short, Dollar General is making quite a profit out of this method.

[@AnthonyMcNeil]

Exactly, people came to my store for basic stuff...milk, eggs, bathroom items... why drive miles to the grocery store when a DG is right up the street. They unfortunately make their money from convenience, so DG won't ever go away.

[@tedbrown7908]

I to worked for DG and i see now they are raising prices. Walmart is still cheaper.

[@sketchleaf7698]

Same. Another former employer here. Most of the customers bought groceries using food stamps, and just a couple more miles up the road there was usually a Publix and a Walmart. A year after I left, they closed down the store. Part of me is still sad that people would have to travel a little further just to get their basic essentials for cheap.

[@megsmiracles]

We had a ton of DGs near my old rental home in rural severely impoverished deep South Carolina. And my brother witnessed so much theft when he went there; it was pathetic to us as Northerners that only had one DG near our cabin 80 miles away from our home when the cashiers were just “Oh well, too bad.” You mean you aren’t going to call the police? Turns out, they never do...

[@lauradavis4174]

It's another way to prey upon the poor

[@tabeyloccs8682]

It’s sad that the only reason they’re doing well is because most of their clientele are poor af

[@PossessionofaDeity]

Tabey Loccs If people had more money they would just spend more at dollar general. Even dollar generals that are on the same street as Kroger and Walmart are successful.

[@mrpirate6187]

I just go there for inexpensive duct tape

[@Seven_Leaf]

The General is literally a mini Publix // Walmart with newer stuff on the shelves, less people and no deli//bakery. I think you have them confused with Family Dollar, Dollar Tree and Save-a-Lot. Even the ones I've visited on Edgewood and Moncrief in Jacksonville were nice and well maintained. The others I listed in that area had like blood trails and bullet holes.

[@CarrotConsumer]

@@Seven_Leaf No, he certainly means Dollar General. Just because yours are nice doesn't mean the other thousands are. Mine smells like a damp basement and looks the part.

[@hummingbirdcity]

...and their ground-level employees are unapologetically exploited.

[@collinexner6957]

I’m a route salesman for frito lay and have delivered to many dollar generals, they definitely got a good thing going there. They are a great customer for us too.

[@TJJ117]

Thanks for keeping food on the shelves bro, y'all don't get the recognition you deserve

[@collinexner6957]

Lol, no problem 😂

[@xboxfan01]

Collin Exner Where I work which is a supermarket they have a Doritos on sale right now, so I’m hyped, if they run out I can count on the frito lay dudes for a delivery! 🤟🏽😎

[@collinexner6957]

Randy J hopefully they take good care of you!

[@JohnJacobGarza]

@@collinexner6957 you deserve a pay deduction

[@7vivec]

Most speakers on KZbin sound so preachy and condescending but you sound so helpful and humble. I love that.

[@guyatrandom]

This company doing well is a bad overall indicator for everyone.

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

Except for the owners and shareholders of Dollar General, of course.

[@kdre7368]

Not really because besides it being cheap it’s also convenient and most likely would be successful in a perfect economic environment.

[@leegraves8878]

Not really I think a lot more people in the last decade especially in rural areas figured out not to try to keep up with the Jones's. I know as Americans we have the most personal debt ever 13 trillion I believe I am thinking if broken down by where the debt is held big cities will have the lion's share. And of course I know well duh more people in big cities but if you break it down to an average per person for the area it will be big city folk by far over rural in debt load.

[@captivesojourner]

That One Dude 30 facts

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

No it isn't

[@alexandereaton7983]

so like nobody's gonna talk about this upside down handicap sign? 1:37

[@sheenestevez2831]

I didn't notice that

[@uvwxyzero]

💀💀💀💀😭😭😭😭😭Bruh lol

[@redlee1176]

Fr real

[@WhiplashPuppet]

Glad I'm not the only one that saw that, lmao.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

The parking spot is reserved for handicapped people that can do a break-dancing headslide while still balancing a wheelchair...duh!

[@zjones9876]

Fun Fact: Every standalone DG store built in recent years is designed to be a hurricane, earthquake, and tornado shelter.

[@Dantinus]

Is it also riot and looting proof, since you know, their location...

[@CarrotConsumer]

Too bad it's not depression proof.

[@chocolatechipslime]

Really? When hurricane sally came through last month they were closed for the day

[@gordonzen1273]

how is that possible? theyre insulated pole barns with flat rooftops..

[@cruzgomes5660]

@@Dantinus how is that so?

[@adamfennimore3616]

Part of the reason DG has so much success in small towns is due to them being the only "grocery" store available in the area. In many less populated areas, they do not have a retailer within reasonable distance to shop for non perishable goods. Stores such as Walmart or Costco may require a drive over half an hour, meanwhile they have a local DG.

[@gibberconfirm425]

I wonder how Aldi would do in small towns. There's a population bulge around me (vs. more barren Midwest) but we now have 2 Aldis and it was a no-brainer the second Aldi would print money as soon as we saw it.

[@Jemuzu80]

Ok so... I was a Dollar General store manager for ten years. Yes we had two or three stores that were disorganized, "worn out", and had bad customer service but they were labeled inside the company as problem stores. All the managers of my district including myself would go to these stores with the district manager constantly to clean things up. Stores appearing like that is not part of the companies business model it is because of bad management. My first store was located in an empty shopping center where the anchor and everything else left but the DG. The inside had flood damage and was pretty worn down. It was constantly coming in with lower sales each year. After a little time spent it was pristine. I had it cleaned, we had new fixtures brought in, i organized and took note of the old inventory bleeding out of the tiny stock room, and we had the floors professionally cleaned. Customers kept complimenting the sudden change and word of mouth brought in more business. Sales during my time there kept going up and the store started making a profit. In 2007 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (the same company that ran Toys R Us into the ground) purchased Dollar General. I'm shocked I never heard you bring this up. In 2007 - 2009 they began mass closing of low profit stores which is why your graph had that sudden drop in total stores. My store was one of them sadly. I was then moved to another store that was labeled a problem store but still very profitable. I turned that store around too. The damage wasn't as severe as the first, the problem this store had was just poor management. In my time at this location we had two remodels. The company cares very much about the appearance of their stores. They have mock stores to test new ideas. They had an extensive creative and marketing team who work hard on the companies image. They have a merchandising team that decides how every item will go on the shelves perfectly and ship out plannograms to the stores that are easy to follow. The reason the company is successful is because of cheap imports and cheap labor. This allows low prices. The cheap labor also ends up creating this image of badly kept unorganized stores. This is the managers fault of each store and theirs alone. I loved my time with Dollar General and would still be with the company today if my mother hadn't fallen into Dementia in 2014. Another good sign for the company is that KKR sold their options and left DG to run themselves.

[@Jemuzu80]

Just wanted to add that our answer for why isn't everything a dollar was, Everything is "generally a dollar". All the stores price points are by dollars. You won't find anything for 4.99 for example. That is the gimmick.

[@lindabingham394]

well if its bad management you need to remove the non producing managers right pay your help and get rid of junk simple business model huh???

[@Jemuzu80]

@@lindabingham394 The managers are well compensated but their entire team is not. This keeps their labor costs low. The assistant managers barely make more than the cashiers who are making bare minimum wage. Hard to find motivated employees at that price. This leaves it up to the managers to step up and put in a lot of the work load when needed to earn their salary and bonuses. The second I walk into a disorganized dollar general I immediately know the store manager is lazy and just there to pick up a pay check. Delegaters will never succeed or thrive in this stores environment only people who excel at team work. Why is some one making $7 an hour going to do all the work when some one making 40k a year is sitting in an office all day?

[@gerardkowalski7683]

Funny you should say they really care about the look of the store . Here in NW Pennsylvania they closed the stores that were very clean and presentable because corporate didn't feel these stores weren't pulling their weight. They left the dirty , disorganized stores open however because corporate felt that these stores were definitely busier. The ones that were clean were thought to be less busier .

[@Jemuzu80]

@@gerardkowalski7683 Umm... corporate has each stores sales and expense numbers. Every store has a goal to meet in regards to these figures. The idea of them shutting down a profitable store is kind of silly to be honest with you. The manager gets a report on these numbers weekly and the information (atleast back when I worked there) is posted on a graph for all employees to see in either the break area or stock room. Corporate is judging these locations by sales not cleanliness. The clean stores prob had more time on their hands because they weren't busy and the dirty busy stores well just bad management.

[@dylanwhite6539]

First pic of a DG store: *has inverted handicap sign* Me: yup. That’s dg alright

[@UniteForgetLeftRight]

Walmart kills local businesses in small communities. Dollar General: Hold my beer

[@yeahokbuddy2510]

DG isnt local tho

[@dillbill7152]

@@yeahokbuddy2510 He means dollar general kills more local businesses in small communities than wally mart does.

[@goldendash1527]

Ah yes hurting a local business even though most local businesses cost a arm and a leg.

[@darkmyro]

@@goldendash1527 I feel like if a small business can't compete with dollar general, they don't need to be in business. I mean they might not be able to match the quantity, but they can certainly make their customer service better and have far more organized stores. basically, what I' saying is you can beat dollar general, by giving the customer things that the dollar general doesn't give them.

[@isaccsushi8610]

One maw and paw shop that has high prices vs. a whole super store that feeds multiple people.

[@fbkensarhd5279]

We all know that "Growing customer base" is just a euphemism for "increasing poverty".

[@konradhakansson860]

"The economy is creating more of our core customer"

[@israelarechiga9214]

Working there sucks

[@AllMustJump]

I only saw a dollar general once in my life, never been in one.

[@pauleferron6833]

I couldn't agree more!

[@pauleferron6833]

@@israelarechiga9214 so sad (but not surprising) that they don't use their increased profits to pay employees better and give them good conditions

[@JohnAudioTech]

A Dollar General opened in my town. I think I get the message.

[@TheBrockwayBabe]

JohnAudioTech me too.

[@9255223]

Me too (Milwaukee WI) - literally just around the corner from my apartment. They put it in an area where I thought wouldn’t support a DG (it’s an expensive neighborhood), but then again, the nearest major supermarket besides the one sitting eight blocks east of it is three miles west. It just opened a few days ago and I took a look. It DID have lots of odds and ends that Pick ‘n Save either wouldn’t have or charge three times for, and I was able to grab a bucket, a decent pizza and some chips a mere 500 feet away (shrugs). DG is not a place I would habitually visit, but it has it’s use. Also, I would say that the new DG may be considered one of the 75%, but then again, not. Again, it just opened in a medium-high rent area to the east, west and north of it, but just south of my neighborhood is an area starting to see decline. Plus, there’s lots of senior living in the area, which is another of DG’s demographic.

[@2davydo]

Here in Calf they have 99 cent stores. I have recently noticed this same practice where they are carrying a number of item now that are priced at $1.99 $2.99 special offer price.

[@FranciscoRamirez-di9kj]

Anneverzel lmao my town has like 4.

[@kaibaCorpHQ]

It's definitely a bad sign, the worst sign though is when there's a pawn shop on every corner....payday loans...ect

[@heyitsnobody]

Live in a town of 3k that has a dollar general, can confirm.

[@RaidenRoach45]

I lived in a Hick County and there are at least 1 Dollar Store every 5 miles. Heck it's seems there are 1 every 6 miles county to county here in TN.

[@JobeStroud]

I can confirm. Come from a town of 6k. They have a Dollar General AND a Dollar Tree!

[@Tyler-gv6zf]

I live in a town of 2000 and I can double confirm

[@RaidenRoach45]

@@JobeStroud Yeah if you go to show off where you lived or where your friends house used to be , only now it's like Holy Crap it's a dollar store now. There was a trailer park on my School bus route as a kid . The other day I drove by for the first time in 15 years and it was gone replaced by a Dollar Store , a storage facility and a Mcdonalds. I was like for years we had to drive 8 miles to go to any kind of of store now BOOM . It's a mile away from the interstate exit always wondered why there wasn't more to begin with. Time does march on.

[@macoyprzybilla6096]

5k town also have one

[@mooseraps]

I feel like they do a lot better in rural areas. I went to college in a rural area and we only had a dollar general close by.

[@1985toyotacamry]

I can see that. I went to Clewiston Florida(rural area) and I do see Dollar General and I see more people in it than the one in my area in Fort Lauderdale. It's very odd to me.

[@russellpuff1996]

Our college town has TWO. It's like putting a Starbucks on each corner of the same intersection. No matter which way you go, it's in your face.

[@silverkoffee]

Dollar general is a life saver in Elendale ND

[@mikezerker6925]

MooseTales yeah and it’s great for college students who live on a small budget!

[@xboxfan01]

Agreed.

[@showguyer]

Imagine how more successful they would be if they kept their shelves stocked and not half empty

[@emilyroan8106]

Theres a shit ton in the back, but they dont hire enough people to effectively stock things. Used to work at one. Ive been to some that instead have thier boxes of stock stacked in the aisle ways for the same reason

[@CupcakeSprinkleUwU]

@@emilyroan8106 Exactly. Imagine being the only person there and having to stock, run register, and do management at the same time, hahah. Sucks, yeah? rip

[@toastertart1170]

One time i went to one and boxes with stock where on the middle of the art isle m and my mom were like “ what the hell “

[@lindabingham394]

and aisle not friggin clogged with pallets of product that goes on the shelf,, constantly at the one in Red Bud IL sh@t hole, leaking product on floor ,and in the display caps and just all around nasty store

[@prettyvacant3605]

And got rid of that dead rodent stinking up the place 😐

[@SisterMaryElephant]

my favorite Dollar General quote, heard on the news... "I love Dollar General. I don't have to dress up like I do when I go to Walmart"

[@kennethtrayer5565]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Yeah

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

Lol really, all you see in wallmart is tracksuits and slippers.

[@wanderingman8921]

Yeeesh ☹ That says alot.

[@Fran-mh2ef]

EXACTLY! like i never understand why people dress up to go to places like chick fil a or target but they got they jammies and spongebob slippers at places like McDonald's burger kind and dollar general

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

@@Fran-mh2ef what one person calles dressing up other people call daily wardrobe lol.

[@ElaineClush]

When your town has a Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar all in the same stretch of road

[@Bigtimecaveboss]

Same

[@isaccsushi8610]

I relate and we have a (dying) walmart too

[@MidnightHedgehog365]

Where I live we have a Family Dollar and a Dollar Tree on the same road literally 7 blocks away from each other. We have a Dollar General too but it's on a different street.

[@RuneRelations]

For a year there was a Family Dollar that was right next to a Dollar General near a Apartment complex I used walk by. They didn’t coexist very long. You could say the General had a gun.

[@JoeHoeDoesSomething]

Mines has dollar general and dollar tree

[@beesquestionmark]

Dollar tree is my favorite dollar store because everything’s actually a dollar! These other stores lie.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

Yeah, and each one has different merchandise... a little bit anyway.

[@thetayz72]

I really don't know how they keep everything truly $1. Someday they will have to rename to like Double Dollar or something just from inflation alone.

[@Badusername2000]

dollar general and family dollar dont claim to be dollar stores, thats just the name, they claim to be discount stores

[@jfrunnerCanada]

The word Dollar obviously includes $2, $3, etc. Also, $1 limit was great in the 80,90’s but nowadays, $1 limit doesn’t give you much... that is why adding $2, $3 dollar items is very brilliant... as long as they cost less than their fancier competitors...

[@jessefisher1809]

@@Bigbadwhitecracker Its true!! theres these little spray bottles I use that I only find at one dollar tree.

[@callum9999]

I remember watching a news feature about Dollar General moving into these small towns, outcompeting the local grocers and forcing them to close down. Normally I'd just call it healthy competition, but the end result is often that the only food store in the local area is the Dollar General - greatly worsening the already terrible diet found in many poor areas. If you only care about money, I guess this is great news. If you care about wellbeing it's pretty disastrous!

[@seththomas9105]

Exactly! This happened in my hometown. The town population shrank from 2,300 in 1980 to 1,600 today. We had two full line grocery stores until one got bought in 2000 and torn down to put up a Casy's (Go figure) and then Dollar General moved in two years ago to finish off the other one on main street. The last grocery store closed this spring. :(

[@gregbell9839]

Don't buy your food there. I was a warehouse worker for DG. The food storage conditions are horrible. Working the loading dock, we'd regularly get food come down the line smelling of rot, covered in maggots, or find all sorts of rodents and rodent nests among the pallets of food on the ground. And that's not including the fact that they don't keep track of expiration dates. A lot of the food DG sells, that they CAN put on shelves, is already expired before they get to the stores. Stay as far away from the food as possible when you go to a DG.

[@jaysmith1408]

I only go to our local dollar general if I’m out of milk, and in urgent need of milk (halfway through making dinner). The grocery store is less than two miles away, but as they said, time is of the essence in their model.

[@GraV21]

The crazy thing is, if you’re buying something from there, you’re paying more than what you would at wal mart but they just sell stuff in smaller portions.

[@charliewhite3905]

Yup

[@gregvinson1]

Exactly. Pay attention to unit price

[@steveeichelberger806]

That’s fine with me. I HATE going to Walmart.

[@spencer4679]

Yeah it's 7 minutes away though as opposed to 30 plus it's on the route to work so I go there so much

[@artyomarty391]

it all depends on the product. And Majority of DG products are same price or cheaper than any walmart, even when you take into account unit price Last time I was there I was shocked I could buy 1 liter Perrier water just for $1

[@turbofiat]

I've lived in TN my whole life I've seen Dollar General stores as long as I can remember. They used to be found only in urban ghettos. Kind like corner markets or liquor stores in the hood. Reading PA for example. Nowadays they have moved from the ghettos into rural areas. Your right. The ones that are the most successful seem to be out in the middle of nowhere, 20 to 30 miles from the nearest grocery store or Walmart.

[@robertwallace1927]

I’ve lived in tn my whole life too and I live 20 minutes from the headquarters of it and it seems like every five miles or so there’s a dollar general the headquarters is on conference drive there’s one of Dickerson road (about five miles from hq) one on 31w on the millersville goodlettsville city line(about seven miles from the one on Dickerson road) and then there’s one by bethel road (257) (4 miles from the one on the city lines) and another one just five miles up the road in the biggest town near us. There are way convenient and pop up like dandy lions lol

[@maminot4822]

The dollar general here seems to act as the "I'm too lazy to fully go to walmart or our local grocery store, and this place has cheap snacks" store. It really is on a corner in the middle of nowhere between the two stores lol.

[@turbofiat]

@@maminot4822 there's one 1/2 mile from my house. Yes it's too convienient to pick up Pepsi's or anything else for that matter.

[@maxthefool]

@@robertwallace1927 ayyy my dad works at said headquarters!

[@NelsonStJames]

Note to self: several Dollar General Stores popping up in and around your neighborhood does not bode well.

[@Almighty_Mage]

One day they'll start popping up in homes.

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

Time to move.

[@TairyHesticles]

That depends on what you're looking for. I just moved out of the city in Minneapolis to a rural area, and I absolutely love it. I'd rather be forced to do some shopping in a Dollar General than deal with effing public transit to get to work.

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

@@icypittfan1529 so you are saying that kids are the ones propping up the economy at the moment?

[@mikefenton8327]

I work for a local television news station. In the past we have done stories on "food deserts" in our county's more rural areas, or places where there is nowhere to buy groceries. The fact is that for many areas, unless they can make and hour+ round trip to come to the bigger towns, then Dollar General is literally the only place selling grocery items available.

[@JohnJacobGarza]

Can you tell me the new station or KZbin channel so I can watch the videos

[@gregbell9839]

Should've done an exposé on the warehouse conditions. 😉😉 I'd rather hunt my own food on a daily basis than ever buy any food from DG. (Ex-DG warehouse worker here.)

[@Quirkney]

Even when they’re more expensive, it’s sometimes still cheaper than driving a town over

[@jelambertson]

Aw c’mon throw some gas in the tractor and take a little ride over to Mt Pilot.

[@ragingraichu219]

Obviously now DG doesn't do the whole "everything's a dollar" anymore, that's Dollar Tree's job.

[@fightttttt]

yeah dg is basically a over priced aldis now

[@buhgingo2933]

Pretty sure it’s called dollar general because generally, you’ll save a buck or two

[@ragingraichu219]

@@buhgingo2933 Not always. Some things are more expensive there because generally, they are a convenience store to a lot of people, and you know how high the prices of stuff in convenience stores are.

[@jakemessman]

I live in a town of 800. There’s a Dollar General about 2 mins from me. Closest Wal-Mart is 20min away. I don’t do my proper grocery shopping there. But I probably stop 1-2 times a week for random stuff I’ll need. Or a snack run

[@fzeroacer1836]

lol same

[@295g295]

Dol-Gen wants a piece of the convenience store business. (milk, ciggs, snack/chips, frozen meal/pizza, canned food), along with other merchandise that looks like it's priced low.

[@jamesedwards3923]

Family Dollar is the same type of store. You are not going to buy a weeks worth of dinner. Hygiene, toiletries, and sanitation products. Perhaps some snacks.

[@amberp8835]

Same. I have to drive 20-30 minutes for full grocery shopping but a 5 minute drive to Dollar General gets me the basic staples I need when I run out suddenly.

[@jamesedwards3923]

@Smarty Paws I do not live by either one. One is by where I work.

[@SB-wj8oj]

How interesting, my boyfriend and I have said to eachother for years that “if there’s a dollar general, we’re near civilization”. We live out in the country, most of us are under the poverty line.

[@BigDogCountry]

You can roll thru SEGA into an unincorporated community and see one sitting there, packed with cars in the parking lot.

[@trashpanda314]

I feel like they're doing well because they actually have pretty high prices on common items. Example; my mom lives in a small rural town of 2K people, that only has a Dollar General and gas station. They charge almost 5 dollars for a gallon of milk whereas the walmart in the next town over sells it for half that. The convenience is the selling point. Regardless, they are obviously doing well.

[@gregbell9839]

They're doing well for the same reason the McDonald's quarter pounder beat the Hardee's third pounder.

[@mickael486]

It's not sad at all that the reason why they're so successful is because there's more low income people that can't walk to the nearest Walmart. Walmart is actually cheaper.

[@db4life925]

I've noticed that too. Sometimes dollar general is no different in price than Walmart.

[@misterhat5823]

A regular grocery store like Kroger is often cheaper. But, people can't walk to those either.

[@aquajet2817]

"I'd buy that for a dollar!"

[@wxixl]

Aquajet great one

[@DarDarBinks1986]

Smash TV? I see you're a person of culture!

[@frankiehamilton7983]

The 6000 SUX...

[@ImpetuouslyInsane]

"I LIKE IT!"

[@DriftTaxi]

You... I like you.

[@tylerbrownyoutube]

My house is a 5 minute walk from dollar general. It’s honestly awesome to have a store that close

[@sambathehusqueen9909]

😢you deserve better

[@bigrodneyakatrey]

Minimum wage and undermanned stores, real reasons for there success

[@alvallac2171]

*their (possessive)

[@calebhernandez2850]

@@alvallac2171 get out of here fucking grammar Nazi

[@draketheriault2272]

Potnaz tm I work at dollar general and they only have two people at a time on a shift

[@Eexpers]

ah yes lets pay dollar general employees above minimum wage...

[@calebhernandez2850]

@J Smith its KZbin who cares if you use proper grammar 🤦

[@siucbset]

Yes: Do separate reports on Dollar Tree and Family Dollar.

[@RuinedBlackCat]

Why is Dollar General successful: Nobody: they are cheaper. Everyone: its 2 miles from my house and dont feel like driving 15 minutes for a gallon of milk.

[@cultofthevoid5677]

Also everyone: I don't feel like going to Krogers or Walmart for 1 or 2 items.

[@Qeengish]

RuinedBlackCat lol. One just opened up in my town and it’s pretty awesome bc it’s the only store that’s not a gas station on this side of town.

[@fangshacva]

@@cultofthevoid5677 whats krogers

[@cultofthevoid5677]

@@fangshacva A giant grocery store chain in the midwest and southern united states.

[@leilanidru7506]

Sometimes I find they’re actually more expensive than Walmart and obviously dollar tree. So as far as cheaper they’re better options but yea it’s insanely close to where I go to school.

[@Smokey.Tackle]

I do find myself going to Dollar General at least once a week. It is like 5 minutes down the street. I am a diet coke and soup addict, and they always have cokes and soups on sell. Also, if I run out of something random like dish soap it is so much faster to go to DG then Walmart or food lion.

[@CZsWorld]

In my experience, Dollar General is not a dollar store.

[@TV-8-301]

Exactly, Dollar Tree is probably one of the last ones

[@dolantrimp1691]

And not a General. In fact, not even in the military.

[@LordPoppy]

Right. Dollar General. Things are generally a dollar

[@ReticulatingSplines_]

Almost nothing in dollar general is $1

[@Jimhelpman]

Dolan Trimp stolen valor? You may be on to something!

[@benvanasdale6273]

There's a DG less than a quarter mile from my house. Conversely, the closest walmart is a 20+ min drive that involves a brief stint on the highway. Not exactly a small town, but DG comes in handy a lot when I need something quickly.

[@InfectedChris]

No Walmarts within reasonable distance in Boston either because land is at a premium here. I think one exists in a town outside the city but it isn't accessible via public transit.

[@HumansOfVR]

*_I'm a fan of dollar stores_* I gotta say my favorite is dollar tree. What's yours?

[@randydubin7118]

Family Dollar. I recently got an Android phone charger there for $5.

[@apeshitclothing]

Dollar Tree definitely and in AZ they have the 99 Cent store, which also sells fresh produce and hard-to-find items.

[@Luke-zx4nx]

Yeah dollar tree I went in a trip to NYC last weekend and even they have dollar trees. I could get all my toiletries (stuff which I couldn’t bring on the plane) and other stuff for way cheaper than nearby stores.

[@HearMeLearn]

when I applied to dollar tree they wanted me to work seasonally like 10 hours a week, buy my own uniforms, and work for 8 dollars an hour, with a permanent position not guaranteed. one of the worst job offers I've ever been given lmao

[@trainfan4449]

I mich prefer dollar tree. They sell traiding cards other than Pokemon. Whole the items may look and sometimes feel cheaper, I have found some realy good stuff there.

[@jasonnichols5357]

I recently became a store manager at a store in rural Georgia. My customer base is a mix of regulars and passersbys. We are very successful and alot of that is due to the small town feel. My total tenure is exactly one year. It's the first job I've ever had where it feels like family. I wasn't expecting this to turn into a career, but I do love it.

[@SethEssington]

I worked at a DG warehouse once and it traumatized me to the point I couldn't work for almost an entire year. The women there treated me like I was a fereaking model or something and they'd all just stare at me thinking I didn't notice. Simply asking questions caused this one woman to think I was attracted to her when I totally wasn't. It was absolutely horrible and now I'm afraid to work with women. There is only 1 woman at my current job and it's been amazing.

[@ethoncharles2386]

Hope you get better soon

[@maux7767]

"As everyone gets poorer, we do better!" - Dollar General. I'm not saying he's wrong, but it kind of sounds a bit dickish when you put it that way, lol Also, there are several of them around here. When I lived in Woolmarket, which I'm not even sure technically counts as a town strictly speaking, they built a Dollar General and a Family Dollar opened across the street. That and a gas station were literally the only stores. I used to jokingly refer to it as the Woolmarket Shopping Center, lol

[@loganbelt9681]

If there is a need, the market fills the need. Don’t blame the company. It would just be someone else.

[@maux7767]

@@loganbelt9681 oh I'm not blaming them per se, that quote just makes me cringe when they put it that way. It sounds bad more than it is bad would be my point lol

[@plasticbleach4004]

"while everyone else is off catching the big fish, dollar general is doing just fine catching the ones that no one wanted." Sounds funny to me

[@jerseynurse6878]

Well yes and no. They do better but then they give major discounts to customers. Like the spend $25 get $5 off coupons, which I use religiously even though I can afford not to.

[@edm9760]

You must be from South Mississippi, I used to live in Gulfport. Dollar stores grow like weeds around there, that's for sure.

[@lmntcrnstn4970]

An old sign for Five Below: "Everything $1 to $5." A newer sign: "Cool stuff $1 to $5 to $10."

[@vaderladyl]

That is the cheapest store at the wealthy people area here in my town.

[@rndmzr153]

Yes it's become 10 below

[@Akumac4]

Please do Dollar Tree, with everything being a dollar I can't imagine how they stay in business

[@honolulublues5548]

China was the main reason, but mainly they sell items that are specifically manufactured for their stores. They buy them at a lower rate because they contract to buy so many at a price below a dollar. Like they sell a plastic pizza cutter that probably costs them no more than 50 cents to buy and ship to them. They mark it up 50% and make a profit. Quality doesn't have to be great and if it breaks after 6 months or a year, who cares, you'll go back and buy another.

[@hottopicthief]

And selling cheaply made products

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

Dollar Tree likes to buy the previous run of certain products that didn't completely sell through, which is how they get certain name brand products. If I'm selling Betty Crocker Pizza cutters, and I have 20,000 of them that I cannot get rid of, I'd rather sell them for $0.20 a piece as opposed to throwing them away. Dollar Tree also buys slightly defective products, such as dog toys that failed quality testing, etc., and they mark up prices items that would cost less than a dollar anywhere else

[@misterhat5823]

It's simple: Most items are overpriced. Three examples: Baking soda is 48 cent at Walmart. A dollar at Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree often has name brand items in smaller sizes, yet same physical size packages, than other stores. Dollar Tree often has inferior products. I bought some after shave there. Had I mixed my normal brand half and half with water, I'd have their brand.

[@Bill_Woo]

To the commenters saying "low quality": there are loads of durable items at Dollar Store. In fact I can't remember a SINGLE item from them that broke. Granted, I'm careful and I don't have kids and dogs chewing on things or drop into disposals, but I still have things from 20 years ago. Right now I see a metal pizza cutter, "Betty Crocker" giant plastic spatula, and can opener that look and work like the day I bought them. I've had an electronic charcoal lighter for years and it's worked on try #1 100%. Actually the only thing I can ever think of that didn't last until today is food - mainly $1 8-packs of Reeses :) They sell for closer to $4 at the grocery store. :)

[@douglashill6125]

I was gone from rural Missouri for 15 years. On a lonely stretch of HWY 47, in Richwoods, they opened a Dollar General store. Genius. When it is at least 20 miles either way to a "big" store, this Dollar General is in the perfect location. Great report, thank you.

[@tehsma]

I told my mother that Dollar General was named after a famous Confederate General called General Beaufort Dollar and she believed me.

[@ultraboombean]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@wanderingman8921]

*speech 100*

[@nonewmsgs]

Let her know CD stands for circle disc and SD stands for square disk

[@yeahno9380]

😂🤣😂

[@pippetandpossum]

Mad lad

[@Darkspyder]

Also they’ve been contributing to food deserts in some of the more “undesirable” locations. It’s to a point that grocery stores will overlook entire neighborhoods but Dollar General will open 3 stores with a 12 block radius. I guess my problem with these stores is all of the food they sell is processed and packed with fat, salt and sodium.

[@BigBoners]

Imagine having more than 2000 people and a Walmart in your town. *This was made by the Casey’s and Dollar General Gang*

[@wyattknutson]

Nice to see a fellow midwesterner in the comments. Casey's for life bro

[@ElaineClush]

Casey’s gang

[@SupermanThatHoe555]

Tf is Casey's? I only have a dollar general

[@AR-15]

@@SupermanThatHoe555 its a midwest gas station if there is over 1500 ppl in a town in the midwest there is a DG and a caseys a mile apart almost guaranteed

[@rileycoyote4924]

Midwest Yeet 👌My town has a dollar general, Casey's, and two circle Ks. It's been also a town of only 3400 people 😂

[@mrsparex]

DG is on the verge of a MAJOR breakthrough! They found a way to correctly count how many stores they own each day at NOON!

[@danielclarke5348]

I personally like Dollar Tree more and there are many of them when I live, I would like to hear more about them.

[@SWLinPHX]

Daniel Clarke: me too

[@lindafarms6208]

Daniel Clarke text me on hangouts [e-mail]

[@Heeknot]

They also grossly underpay and understaff employees (i was a shift manager running the store solo for 6 hours at a time, restocking shelves, recieving inventory, and running register, only getting payed $8/hr or $0.75 higher than minimum wage, working 39 hours and 59 minutes so i dont get "full time") they refuse to upgrade the stores (if its broken its broken, if its not to hot or cold to legally run the hearter/AC then dont, and they are still using IBM computers from the 80s to act as registers that are constantly breaking and freezing) and taking care of the employees is a no no (a mop bucket spring snapped and ended up in my leg. not only was i asked to come in the day after the next and work injured, but i had to sign something that said i would not persue any kind of legal action or seek payed time off. never got any medical treatment for that) DG needs to die.

[@penguinlordalan]

As I currently work at a DG, I can pretty much confirm all of this is pretty damn true at every store

[@KatieFrog217]

The DG I currently work at had to have a maintenance person come in a year ago during the winter to pull the heat detector down to a reasonable level because all the hot air was going to the top and not allowing the heat to run so down at ground level no one wanted to take their coats off and it was cold enough to make people's toes start freezing. It took more than one complaint and at least a month for them to actually do something because the "heaters were running fine".

[@44MHughes]

You got paid what you and/or your job was worth. If you don’t like it, do something different or be better. Dollar General pays excellent wages. I’m an uneducated blue collar worker and I have a standing offer from DG for over $80K per year. That’s a massive amount of money in my area. Cost of living is very low here. You can live very nicely here on less than half of that. They claim it’s $90K, and maybe it is with fringe benefits, but I can only see where it’ll add up to 80. I turned it down, though. I don’t want to be a part of that.

[@Heeknot]

@@44MHughes Ah yes, even though working through many health and safty violations, extended shifts with no breaks, and doing the job of 3-4 people i was only worth minimal pay that was nowhere near the cost of living in my area. first off, fuck you second, fuck you, there are so many things wrong with your mind set 3rd i did leave, now that particualr DG has gone under wihtou me. i think i was worth more than $8 when i was keeping them afloat. and finally, fuck you :D

[@jonathandetournillon]

@@KatieFrog217 well heat rises... its no different in a car, house, or backyard...

[@iDrkTV]

1:34 - The rise and fall of that disabled parking sign..

[@Jigglysaint]

Now this is a story all about how my handicapped parking sign got upside-down

[@alezader0511]

I'm dead 🤣

[@Deoxys911]

Hey, it's still hanging in there, so don't forget the "...and rise again" part!

[@coryjohnson2486]

Dollar General is a GODSEND for people who live out in rural areas. I live in a small town in rural NE Ohio, and the closest Walmart is like 35-40mins away. It’s nice to have a DG right down the street ..

[@d77543020]

My local Dollar General has a security guard that's how ghetto it is

[@keterclass3541]

Boost mobile and cricket wireless stores tell me I'm in the wrong side of town

[@seane.3953]

Brigman Rivers My town has both of these.. where the fuck am I?

[@kittymcnekonuggets]

In one of mine there’s a separate security guard, in the other one, whoever’s on the register closest to the door is the one that has to do double duty 😂 (and there’s also another store in close proximity…) and we also have quite a few dollar trees and family dollars that are definitely the same way

[@geraldmccray3301]

Get rich Or die trying LMFAOOOOOOOO YES!

[@Fran-mh2ef]

Theres a shooting EVERY OTHER week at the dollar generals where i stay at 🔫 😨 😨

[@Ryanclarkgaming]

A large part is they tend to only have 2 employees in the store at a time if they are lucky. I used to work at one and most of the time was the only person there. Because I was a manager they didn't need anyone else

[@samjones4451]

Dollar Tree in my town does thriving business even though they have a lot of junk in the store. Expired food items on shelves is common. The bus stop at the mall is in front of this store. So waiting for the bus I see many people coming from the parking lot going into the store. They are looking for cheap prices and not quality.

[@rustyshackleford2943]

I live in a rural area in the southeast and he's absolutely right. Dollar Generals are almost always on the outskirts of towns, especially in poorer areas. And just over the last few years they're popping up everywhere. It's funny that I saw this video because everyone I know talks about how it seems like a new one opens somewhere around where I live every few weeks or so.

[@Hardrockfan21]

The only thing I like about Dollar General is that they're the only store I know that sells Jolt Cola in a can.

[@joelrichardson2894]

I've worked at my DG for about 4 years and I've never seen a jolt cola lol

[@Hardrockfan21]

@@joelrichardson2894 Really? Jolt re-released it in 16 oz cans about 3 years ago exclusively through DG.

[@MultipliedByZero]

And unbranded Girl Scout cookies.

[@BigDogCountry]

Amen! JOLT--all the sugar and twice the caffeine! Man, Jolt is like a really really flat RC.

[@BigDogCountry]

@@joelrichardson2894 I've noticed in my town that of the 4 we have two will carry stuff like that and 2 don't. They are pretty sophisticated about their marketing even though it seems haphazard and random to the casual observer. At least at DG if you go in to buy something you know they will have it unlike Wally where you have to order it. if i gotta order it, I'll do it online and have it delivered.

[@christophercole8114]

Having worked at Dollar General there are a few things I could tell you. First, the very first store was in Scottsville, KY not Springfield. Second, it isn't just that they make 30% on what they sell, they also use antiquated equipment. Go into just about any other retailer and you'll see a "Point of Sale" system that looks modern and doesn't need to be restarted a couple times a day. We had registers that would crash on us in the middle of a transaction. We had conveyor belts that worked maybe half the time (I worked in a larger "Dollar General Market" that had an actual grocery section). There is very little that goes into the infrastructure. We even had our electricity knocked out when a tiny rainstorm came through, and it was off for almost three hours. Profits are up at DG because they invest little to nothing back into their stores.

[@lightfeather9953]

Does it not reduce profit to have non functioning equipment? I don't agree with your point. It's always a question of marginal return on investment.

[@christophercole8114]

@@lightfeather9953 disagree with it all you want, I worked there. The POS system was the other thing that POS can stand for.

[@creamcannon825]

​@@christophercole8114there are two Dollar Generals in my town of 5,000 half-alive people and I think the point of Dollar General investing very little into their locations is partially true. The whole layout scheme of a Dollar General never makes sense, and I think they don't put much thought into where shit goes in a store. I do believe they use primarily outdated transactional technology whenever it comes to the manned registers also. But I don't think they're as incompetent as to keep many stores loaded up with shitty equipment - I feel you worked at a particularly trash Dollar General.

[@glassheartsx]

My Dollar General was accepting "cash only" for the entire day, because their internet went out haha

[@matthewyoung5028]

I have 3 DGs within a 5 minute drive of my house. They’re literally everywhere.

[@tonyahinrichs8828]

Only three? Lol

[@itrthho]

its like Subway!

[@genesmith9785]

Dollar General stores are being built in and around my state at a rapid rate, and several have gone up near my small town of 31, 450 people. I live 12 miles out of my town, and there's two in business on the rural roads that lead to my house, and they stay busy. One is only about 3/4 miles away from me, and I buy merchandise there often, and they usually always have sales on many items. I get wonderful prices and great products there on my household cleaning supplies, and washing machine detergent too, toilet supplies, etc.

[@alvallac2171]

@@itrthho *It's (contraction of "it is/has") its: for possession

[@pre-jordanbasketballfan7429]

I live in a town of 650 people and we have a Dollar General in time

[@theSato]

To answer your question at the end -- there's a town 1 mile from me and I shop at the Dollar General there all the time. The population of the town is 110 as of the last census, and my town is ~30 people. To verify -- the town is "Ratliff City, Oklahoma" -- look it up! Bonus: I just went on a 7 hour trip to Arkansas, and I passed through several microscopic towns that had a Dollar General. One of them was called Kirby and all they had was a Dollar General, a gas station, and a few houses.

[@marlisemassey8550]

I live in arkansas and I can think of about 10 dollar generals within 30 minutes of my house (i don't live in a town i live in a rural village size community) but they still havent capitalized on the fact that my area has two state parks and is 20 minutes away from a walmart

[@alastor8091]

I'm coming to find you.

[@_synthium_]

p o y o.

[@100percentSNAFU]

In upstate NY where I live, literally every single small town has a Dollar General.

[@sarah4life050399]

Yup, when I moved to central/upstate NY about 45 minutes east of Syracuse for college from eastern Massachusetts I couldn't believe how many DG's I saw when I was there

[@YogBob]

All upstate ny knows is dg and stewarts

[@macaelatice-loma1048]

😮😆haha ikr i was riding with my mom looking at fall foliage in a town up in the mountains and as we drove back down a DG popped into view...

[@jayblanton745]

Here in South Georgia, when Walmart opened the failed “neighborhood market” stores to compete directly with Dollar General, Dollar General came in & bought them & opened a store EVERY one of them that closed! These stores even had small gas stations.... that dollar General now runs! I’d never seen a dollar General gas station until they did this!

[@blitzir]

I just saw a picture of one on google, i have never even heard of a concept of a DG Gas Station.

[@lanehale5669]

I can go to 6 different dollar generals without driving more than an hour lmao

[@tekkenfan01]

No

[@briellericker8569]

i can go to like 26 targets w/o driving more than a hour lmaoo

[@tekkenfan01]

brielle ricker maybe

[@tekkenfan01]

Jamie Smith never

[@stevonwhite8933]

@@briellericker8569 Where the hell do you live?

[@ltbeefy9054]

Went to a Dollar General once, didnt see much that was $1. That's why i like the Dollar Tree, there things are actually $1 or less.

[@prodjoshkta]

Charlie Bradley the stuff at Dollar Tree is usually god awful quality. I don’t expect everything at DG to be a dollar but their brand of stuff is better than dollar tree off brands.

[@misterhat5823]

Dollar General often has the same merchandise that Walmart has, just at a higher price. The same can't be said for the dollar tree.

[@neckofthewoodsupdated7549]

prod. joshkta, Mister Hat, & Charles Bradley; Can you all tell what’s the Pros & Cons to shopping at; Walmart, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, And Family Dollar??? What have you all noticed between the stores from your observation. Thanks.

[@stevewilson5749]

Amen 😀

[@stevewilson5749]

Love going to dollar tree 😊

[@lilluvsrocks2532]

Hi, 2020 quarantine binge commenter here. My hometown has a population of 7,000 people, and my graduating class was 74. There is 1 dollar general market and 2 dollar general stores within 10 minutes of the center of my hometown and a few more scattered on the interstate. Though there is one Walmart, Dollar General and Save-a-Lot were where my family most often shopped, we rarely went to a locally owned store with higher margins when we could afford to support local businesses, and we to Walmart for things the dollar stores didn't carry, like laptops, school supplies, Christmas gifts, and clothing. In my hometown, Walmart was kind of seen as the grocery store more affluent people could afford.

[@nicholasstevenson7574]

Dollar general has basically become the neighborhood corner grocery store, it's not just an dollar store anymore, it's an grocery store and convenience store in one, the problem is it's usually in pretty seedy parts of town

[@BeckyAnn6879]

Our Dollar General is literally on Main Street. It's across the street from a local drug store chain.

[@rockstarofredondo]

They will also be in extremely small towns.

[@beckigreen]

Nicholas Stevenson They aren’t usually in the seedy part of town.

[@TairyHesticles]

Lol, the seedy parts of town? What a sheltered life you must live.

[@bobaluisback3854]

I currently reside in a town of less then 7K, and we have a dollar general, and i can name 3 other towns of less than 1,500 people that have dollar generals.

[@chocolatechipslime]

As soon as you cross into Florida from Alabama there is a tiny little town, probably a few hundred people and they have a dollar general.

[@TheLastLineLive]

Honestly I don't understand how they do so well. Their stores are just so poorly managed.

[@awesomedez]

If it’s the cheapest or only store like it in town, you’re gonna shop there no matter how it’s run

[@Exarian]

They do so well through rampant exploitation of the poor.

[@Johnny.Picklez]

@@Exarian wait how?? Never been to dollar general but how????

[@DrOldsmobile91]

I know they just built a new building in my town to replace the old one they we're recently in and they must have hired the cheapest contractors cuz the thing looks 10 years old already on the inside

[@TheFirBall]

In Macon GA they get robbed on a regular basis

[@LishSnead]

I live in a rural area and literally all of our small towns have a DG. My favorite one is in the next town over... It's a DG Market. That has been really handy during the pandemic, because, the nearest Walmart or other big box store is about 45 minutes away 👍

[@EfrainQuezada]

I like dollar general, but having family dollar and dollar tree as your competition doesn't say much

[@1985toyotacamry]

It depends I do go to Dollar Tree most of the time.

[@TEHSTONEDPUMPKIN]

Its been years since I been to a Dollar General, use to when I was in the country. We got a Dollar Tree and a Family Dollar though, Dollar Tree is much better in my opinion.

[@DBZHGWgamer]

it says a lot, but nothing good.

[@honolulublues5548]

Funny thing is Dollar Tree and Family Dollar (both owned by the same company, BTW) are not who they are really competing against. They are competing against Walmart in the convenience factor.

[@robc8468]

Dollar General = Generally everything costs more than a dollar.

[@moonstruck799]

Dollar Tree = everything’s a dollar (not including taxes) and the same exact shit and quality.

[@Brydude87]

Dollar general ahh yes... I can quite literally walk from my house to one of there stores just so I can get milk lol

[@thrasherx2k1]

Their cold foods fridge is always wiped out.

[@aidenb3069]

I live in new york. I just walk a block.

[@lonniedavy9365]

Youngsville La population 18,000 have 4 Dollar General.

[@CokeDrkrNotSnrtr]

Don't think I've ever had a negative experience with DG, I quite like the stores, especially the cheaper supplements.

[@alexajean4204]

I never realized dollar general was actually successful...

[@rcairforceone]

I figured they had to be, because they keep popping up everywhere. They even have gas stations now.

[@alexajean4204]

rcairforceone that’s wild... I’ll have to keep my eyes open for that now

[@dexenationgracey1979]

I never knew Dollar General was known outside of certain states. Seems a lot smaller than it is.

[@kennethtrayer5565]

Must live in a state without them.

[@JosefCreations]

At my dollar general the employees sit outside on the display lawn chairs and smoke

[@JosefCreations]

@Chris Schmelter they probs smoke a carton of cigs a day tbh

[@JosefCreations]

@Chris Schmelter lol

[@Wavystarj]

Chris Schmelter no way yo nerdy ahh get high bitch boi 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

[@HelheimMudkip]

That's every DG

[@JosefCreations]

@@HelheimMudkip it really is

[@dollarn9ne]

No one: Dollar General: We have opened a location on Mars

[@boamahkojoopoku1807]

"Walmart left the Earth" lol

[@leighw548]

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[@chumbawaumbacumpa]

*Elon Musk has entered the chat*

[@djhaloeight]

these “no one” etc memes need to stop. they’re done, dead, stick a fork in them!

[@dollarn9ne]

djhaloeight boo hoo

[@blakestrother5122]

I used to drive from nc to va often to see my family for the holidays and the 2 things I can say is 1. These dollar generals are indeed everywhere. They seem to place them on common rural routes which is brilliant because there’s plenty of commutes where the interstate isn’t used. And 2. Dollar generals never and I mean never close. They are open for every major holiday so you can count on them being open.

[@cmartin8093]

Except for Christmas (employee btw)

[@expression6180]

I can leave the house and walk to one within minutes, they're pretty common in rural Pennsylvania

[@ulockedspark2121]

Mine is just down my street like 1 minute to walk there and a 30 second bike ride

[@Me-wk3ix]

As a teacher, Dollar General is one of my best friends!

[@JohnJacobGarza]

What you buy? School supplies

[@redrumssam5888]

Yes there is one. The pop is of a medium size but it's definitely low income

[@RR-ty3mv]

I honestly feel odd- there a dollar general down my road yet I live in a rich old person golf course resort.

[@spencer4679]

I'm thinking of a certain golf resort with a dg 3 minutes away but there's no way it's the same one