Dollar Stores Are Dying..

[@Th1sUsernameIsNotTaken]

In my area they tried to gaslight us all and say that "dollar store/tree/etc. never meant everything was only a dollar" as if most of us didn't grow up going there after school and flat out buying whatever we wanted, FOR A DAMN DOLLAR.

[@EB-nz1qv]

I’d love to be a fly on the wall while you’re at the car rental counter.

[@HenryOManly]

Dollar general was never a dollar store

[@Gamerguy-ud1zo]

I remember hearing about this from phantom strider. Not only do a lot of dollar generals end up having poor quality or outright expired food half the time, they even take up valuable space in specific areas where a actual grocery store should be in specific areas that need them so they contribute to hunger of specific demographics.

[@Kevin-Spaceballs]

@@HenryOManlyright. Meant everything is, for the most part, “generally” a dollar.

[@FinlayDonavan]

@@Gamerguy-ud1zo in rural Appalachia, “real” grocery stores won’t open because there isn’t a big enough customer base so we’re grateful when a DG opens up and you can get a few staples without having to drive 30 to a Walmart.

[@StrayDogCrew]

It's now $1.25 Been that way for a few years Im poor. I shop there

[@alexanderfreeman3406]

Hate to break it to you, but these “dollar stores” have always been a ripoff. Almost all the stuff they sell is actually more expensive per unit, but they sell smaller packages. So it only *looks*’like stuff is cheaper there.

[@Viperness]

I used to shop there.

[@Blandco]

Legit. I buy stuff there to craft for tabletop. The extra .25 adds up. They also have been run into the ground with upper management just not dealing with management issues.

[@richarddoyle3420]

Soon to be renamed 'Dollar+ Store'. Probably. Ounce for ounce, still a rip-off.

[@StrayDogCrew]

@alexanderfreeman3406 depends on the products, but yes some things are not worth it.

[@keithdfox2]

It's not the employees fault at Dollar General that there are boxes everywhere. The same person who runs the register has to stock the shelves and they're constantly going back and forth. My wife worked their for over a year and that was the worst part of it for her.

[@RMX7777]

Then you get the stores that have self-checkout marked as broken all year long, and it's definitely not broken.

[@xXD3M0NXxTV]

Can confirm as a employee myself you are absolutely right.

[@XafiusGaming]

Yeah for sure. The self checkouts were a mistake. As a former DG store manager I can say that the upper management told us to shut down the self checkouts.

[@cannix8055]

@@RMX7777 That's from Corporate Dollar General, its to prevent stealing.

[@cannix8055]

you got it, sometimes people need to just look around and understand that there is just the one or 2 people there trying to do everything. Its not the employees fault, thats a buisness decision of labor and its the corporate direction. Managers hvae labor goals to meet and i'm sure this is how they're directed to schedule.

[@Houshalter]

Older generations called these places dime stores. It's been happening for a long time.

[@Jaegar19Ultima-u9d]

Now it'll be value stores then affordable stores after that Generic Brand Stores. The titles won't mean shit just call them "we're not walmart or amazon".

[@catbert7]

@@Jaegar19Ultima-u9d Call it the "Poor-Store"

[@skeetorkiftwon]

These stores have been replacing mom and pop stores for decades, when they close the small towns will become ghost towns.

[@gowankommando]

The five and dime. Like nickel and diming you lol

[@stratking8693]

You mean the people who existed before the invention of color? and their framerate is off? yeah those were weird times.

[@korneliusheydrich4095]

I'm opening up a $100 store, I'll use the Supreme marketing strategy

[@BeerBreath702]

I’ll invest. Send info bubba. I have plenty of sister cousins that will want in on this.

[@Epidombe]

What about that posh store that sells 24$ ice cubes?

[@Viperness]

You'll become a CEO of your own company.

[@Lebronat40]

bozo. i did this 4 years ago at the start of covid. stop taking others ideas.

[@Lumerlume11]

Everything will cost $125

[@shadowlawx1]

Hey, as a trucker, when you're in the middle of nowhere and need to grab water and food, you know for sure a dollar general will pop up

[@someguyfromtheinternet5102]

Same driver. Same.

[@Longshot441]

or a buckies.

[@UMadUCauseBad]

That's only because the dollar generals put everything else out of business. Everywhere that's the middle of nowhere with a dollar general, look nearby and you'll see more places boarded up than open

[@amodsr]

I worked at a dollar general about 10 years ago. I asked my boss why they call it dollar general when nothing costs a dollar. He replied with it's not a dollar store, it's a general store.

[@termiterasin]

Dollar general prices are slightly higher but they are in lots of rural locations with a great product selection. Their only competition is gas stations.

[@Pheoniex]

@@termiterasin You're right about that kinda competition. The gas station in my small town sells produce and meat, they expanded into a very small grocery store and then family dollar went out of business nearby.

[@thecatthatgotaway]

@@termiterasindollar general is the “I’m not driving all the way to Walmart” option lol

[@unholysaint1987]

@@thecatthatgotaway exactly... i grew up classic "middle of nowhere"... town of less than 300 people, 1 gas station that ran 6am to 9pm, and nearly an hour drive to any one of the 3 closest walmarts, but theres a dg within 15 minutes, and about 12 of them within an hours drive

[@honestlywhatever]

@@thecatthatgotaway truer words have never been said lmao

[@Maiden_to_mother]

My dads always said “Dollar General, where everything is generally not a dollar”

[@erascarecrow2541]

But the quality is far better than Dollar Tree...

[@DrHuxley-]

Because it's not dollar items duh yeah. It's regular stuff but more expensive. ​@@erascarecrow2541

[@thenerdnetwork]

Dollar General isn't a dollar store, its a general store.

[@Th1sUsernameIsNotTaken]

@@thenerdnetwork, why does everyone keep posting this. You're flat out wrong. "The first Dollar General store opened in Springfield, Kentucky on June 1, 1955, with the concept of selling all items for $1 or less."

[@DrHuxley-]

@@Th1sUsernameIsNotTaken That's not the dollar general. That's all the other dollar stores. Dollar general never was and used the concept to trick people into thinking that.

[@FeroDega]

As someone who works for a Dollar General. The AC is broken every year sometimes it's 90° in some parts of the store in the summer. We have to practically annoy them with service tickets before they do anything.

[@SuperRedNovaDragon]

Yep this summer, our store's ac broke 3 times, the freezers stopped working twice. Idk about yall but out manager shut down the store once it got above 80f inside

[@mercus.7634]

Shout out to my Florida store where our ac was broke for over a year yet we weren't allowed to wear shorts

[@FeroDega]

@@mercus.7634 I just start damaging out chocolate products. Watch how fast they come to fix your AC then.

[@derekrequiem4359]

@@mercus.7634 You would think that no AC = customers unhappy = customers stop shopping there = no profits, but I guess the higher ups don't see things that way 🙄

[@mercus.7634]

@@derekrequiem4359 you would also think that having a single cashier and one person stocking, clogging the backroom and isles would make customers unhappy too but they don't care

[@Ozonencb]

We almost had LIDL open in Australia, but they didn't because the current corporate supermarket giant Woolworths said, if LIDL opens, Woolworths will close it's stores, and government was like nooooo, proof companies have become stronger then governments... holding a monopoly.

[@wolfgangloll2747]

that's fucked.

[@solarmaru49]

Monopoly is bad for a number of reasons. This being one of those.

[@llothar68]

LIDL or ALDI should come to Philippines, but here it is the same. THey will protect their current unaffordable high price big brand only economy to the end of corruption (which will be never).

[@godish_tv8623]

The government should have called their bluff they went broke in the uk lol and dissolved in 2015

[@p3rpNZ]

lol whole of australia is a stitch up dude, aus an canada are 2 of the worst places to be you gotta bail asap.

[@pwalker1360]

We're almost at the point where a dollar can't buy four quarters.

[@shprman]

lmao facts we getting there

[@someguyfromtheinternet5102]

LOL that was funny.

[@Lazzil]

It definitely can't buy a hundred pennies.

[@thecheezybleezy7036]

It makes sense because we abandoned the silver/gold backing standard for currency and our money is essentially only worth what we can provide in labor/protection

[@smoothpotato957]

@@Lazzilonly reason it can is all our Pennies now are made of zinc and just copper plated

[@roberttauzer7042]

"The first Dollar General store opened in Springfield, Ky. on June 1, 1955" "$1 in 1955 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $11.78 today" Nuff said.

[@Joek9100]

Yeah but did the quality of products go down significantly over that time period? Is there a single thing in the store you'd pay $12 for?

[@shanenonwolfe4109]

Thats not the point hes making.​@Joek9100

[@poochie5543]

⁠@@Joek9100idk, did the quality go down? Isn’t there a saying that “we don’t make things the way we used to?”

[@teamofone1219]

Dollar tree Is a 5 and below now.

[@Mr._Warlight]

1.25 to 5 store.

[@TheCheezy303]

dude... the store 5 below had to change their friggin main title D:

[@Zyklon_B_still_and_know_God]

​@@TheCheezy303no they didn't

[@erascarecrow2541]

To me, Dollar Tree is the lowest quality items usually at $1, and you only shop there if you absolutely had to. Family Dollar is a step up, concentrating more on... convenience, quick cheap foods and in general most things you need (reminds me of a gas station but without the hugely inflated prices), some appliances and cookware is better and easier to find than Dollar General. Dollar General is a good medium where a lot of items are competitively priced including $1 items, but most of the items are not. Most items are on par with Walmart, and prices are not that far off either. Only the pain pills that are $1 (and includes like 4 pills in a standard sized bottle) are likely the worst deals, everything else is pretty reasonable.

[@TheChallenger1000]

​@@erascarecrow2541Nothing is usually $1 at Dollar Tree. It's been $1.25 for a while now.

[@JaySeeM]

I’m a former store manager for Dollar General. The AC issue is 100% a thing. I’d worked at several different locations that had long term AC issues with no effort from corporate to resolve the problem. The stores would be so hot inside that the chocolate on the shelves would melt on a daily basis. Regarding the comments on one register being open and a line, and boxes on the floor, DG refers to the company as a low operating cost employer and they drill this into your head while you’re training. The stores don’t receive a large enough of a payroll budget to maintain 2 employees in the store at all times. There are intended gaps throughout most days with only one person in the store. The expectation is that the salaried store manager works whatever time necessary to keep the store open for its normal operating hours, regardless of staffing conditions or anything else. The salary is less than 60k with no bonuses or incentives. I found myself working 70+ hours a week desperately trying to keep the store clean and the aisles clear. I’d choose homelessness over ever working there again.

[@Entropy67]

What horror. Sounds like an attack vector. Maybe if someone were to show how foolish this is to corporate, they would fix the issue... Well, I guess they will find out with the economy failing at this rate.

[@jhoughjr1]

That sucks but more than I made with two Bachelors degrees and years of training in software.

[@droe2570]

Welcome to inflation. When all costs go up but your prices remain flat, guess what happens?

[@GenericPast]

I used to deliver refrigerated products to them and it was comical how it would take them over a month waiting for someone to come repair it.

[@CatalinaFOIA]

That's horrific. Should be against labor laws because you were salaried and being forced to work overtime without compensation. Makes me sick.

[@SquirrelGirl83]

I worked for DG for 2 years. They only allow 2 people per shift. One has to run the register and the other stock. They have too much inventory for one person to stock. If one person doesn't show up for their shift. Well, nothing gets done. I 100% avoid all DG stores now. They treat their employees like crap.

[@someguyfromtheinternet5102]

Lol. Rookie numbers. Mustve been bad at the job regarding stocking. Imagine running a distribution center at 57,000 sq ft with 3 sets of racks at 200 feet long for sorties. 20 receiving docks and 4 shipping docks. And 8 lanes for forklifts. With a 6 man skeleton crew at 24 hr ops.

[@samuelelliott8453]

​@@someguyfromtheinternet5102 just because theres worse situations, doesnt mean the original situation is good

[@someguyfromtheinternet5102]

@@samuelelliott8453 never said it was worse. We were efficient.

[@JJFX-]

Even if you aren't that poor, these stores have been great for DIYers needing cheap supplies for random projects. Sometimes they're like walking into a budget hobby lobby. I don't think most people are THAT upset that they raised prices to $1.25, the problem is they grew way too fast and the stores are often a mess. If you aren't careful, they can often overcharge you as well. What I want to see are more liquidation stores full of Amazon returns, failed products, etc. Too many of these often end up in landfills when they could be of use to a lot of people. I got a 'broken' $1200 3D printer at a local liquidator a few years back in a beat up box for $200 that was basically brand new. Not a scratch on it, all it needed was a wire plugged back in.

[@bl8388]

I used to go to an auction stocked with overstock/lightly damaged items from a Sam's club. If you researched the values on a variety of items you could get great deals. Got a great wok with a small dent on one side when I was just out of college.

[@RMX7777]

Yup, one of the only places I could ever find foam board for making RC airplanes.

[@Azaytio]

I work as an assistant manager at dollar tree, my store is fairly new but we are doing well because I make for sure the store is the cleanest store out there. I close a lot so a lot of cleaning is put on me and my cashier of the day. The only box you see is a display box. I keep the floors as clean as the cleanest walmart you see, I help out checking people out if I see any more than a 3rd person in line. I have lost count the amount of customers I see regularly because we keep it so clean and organized. We do have trouble keeping some product on the shelves and with the holidays I know the struggle we have with hours. Simply upper management (above store manager) says you can only have X hours and you must have X employees. As a result most employees only have 15-20 hours a week. They are literally allergic to the thought of having more than 1 cashier at a time. If I were in charge I would change it to less employees with more hours that overlap so there are 2 cashiers at a time during the busiest hours (10 am - 8pm). Although I have heard complaints about things being 1.25 a clean and organized store with good employees I can say will make up for that. I think with some changes to how they structure employees and actually having clean stores as a result can bring in more revenue.

[@foreignuser_]

it's probably just your area that makes it possible to run the store in the way that you do. in my area we have customers who come in and essentially ransack the store on a daily basis. the store i worked at was earning in the millions per year. they had to have a guy come in for a shift whose job it was to just go around and fix all the shit the customers threw all over the place.

[@piquat1]

@@foreignuser_ Sounds like Walmart. In the rural area I live, Walmart is a clean, well organized store. I lived in Minneapolis for a year or so and and a trip to Walmart there was like taking your life in your hands. Gang members out front and the store was a pig stye. Just a reflection of the surrounding society.

[@robynlawrence9428]

Tjank you so much for your hard work.

[@deedeeramone34]

Twenty more years working for them and they’ll give you a $5 gift certificate to Burger King!

[@frenchyroastify]

You're too good for that joint. Take your work ethic and management skills somewhere they will pay you really well. Those places exist.

[@idklol4197]

i used to work at a really nice dollar tree. we worked hard to keep it clean and stocked

[@Swaggerbobable]

When the Dollar stores are fucked, we are all fucked.

[@leighz1962]

Next couple months could be wild. Dollar stores aren't good to be getting and usually worse if they can't keep up either.

[@corneliusthecrowtamer1937]

no, the dollar stores are fucked from beginning to end

[@JohahnDiechter]

They take advantage of the poor. You are better off if you don't buy crap from there.

[@xaby996]

No. Its a scam

[@MYyGUN]

I thought something was fishy when all my dollar store snacks disappeared..... Like where da fk are my figs and cookies !! What about all the foren candy and chips. So many snacks gone make me sad

[@IKIGAIofficial]

So many items rose over 50% in price since 2020.

[@Viperness]

It's because of inflation.

[@Tranquilized_]

im sure tariffs will bring them down.

[@ericscott9029]

@@Tranquilized_ I'm sure the Inflation Reduction Act will bring them down-oh wait. Hey also why didn't Biden rescind all of Trump's tariffs while he was in office if tariffs are such a bad thing?

[@Zenocius]

Bidenomics

[@mochizuki77]

@@Tranquilized_ cant wait for those egg tariffs

[@zera2314]

In Canada we have Dollarama. We used to have dollar stores but those ended pretty quickly, or at least the pricing of everything being $1.00 ended quickly. Dollarama is basically just a liquidation store for old product that is cheaper. A small laundry detergent bottle can be $3-$4 or so, versus $20 or more at a larger store.

[@brandong42091]

When my great grandma use to take me to the dollar store when I was a kid and they had the whole back wall as toys , those were some of the most memorable moments of my childhood . I use to walk out of there with 3 or 4 toys everytime I thought that place was magical .

[@ddegn]

That's a great story. Thanks.

[@kc_jones_gaming]

Jaru toys were the best… till it broke later that day. I was a big fan of the fake money to play shop. It also had no breakable parts unless you got the plastic register with it 😂

[@cirexgaming4325]

Something you touched on that hit so close to home me was the stress just to buy gas a decade ago. I had an unfortunate situation where I lost my job and was nearly pennyless. I had an interview for an Assistant GM role at a local restaurant and was offered the job. However, the training was going to be 1hr 30 mins away (100+) miles. I asked if i could get some assistance and they did not offer it. Mind you, i would have to make that drive Monday-Friday for 2 weeks from Western Maryland to Annapolis, MD. In a panic, I did everything in my power to sell possessions, ask for help from friends and family and I couldnt get anything substantial. Ultimately, a great stepping stone for my career turned sour and I had to turn it down. Luckily, I was able to accept a position at another job that was about a mile away from my place. Since then, things have been good but i will never forget the days where the simplest of commodities were horrifyingly stressful to obtain when broke.

[@thebenc1537]

My wife had to drive 3 hours into a different state to train for her job. Stop whining.

[@dantevic]

@@thebenc1537 your wife had the money for gas, he did not. He was broke.

[@karmaandkerosene_music]

​@@thebenc1537 Your comment is really condescending - and clueless.

[@vinckr5553]

@@thebenc1537 she won't be your wife for long

[@Kyronetta]

@@thebenc1537as if that’s impressive. It’s not. Good for your wife. Not everyone is the same.

[@madmatt2024]

The issue is that these stores purposely stopped providing good deals. There used to be items that I would get at Dollar General because they were cheaper than other places, now they aren't. Chunky soup they literally downsized the can just for their stores and charge the same price, Code Red and Voltage Mountain Dew soda used to be around $1 for a 2L, now its $3, and the large boxes of General Mills cereal that were $5 are no longer stocked. Milk, frozen pizzas, and burritos also used to be cheaper there than almost everywhere else, now they are more expensive. To top it all off, Dollar General does the bear minimum to maintain their stores. Ours was put up 10-15 years ago and NOTHING has been repaired or updated since. The floor has been falling apart for several years now and they won't do anything about it. They also run skeleton crews, rarely do they have more than two employees in the store and they are usually trying to clean or restock while also running the register.

[@SuperRedNovaDragon]

The shrinkflation is happening everywhere not just at dollar general, plus its the company (cambells, i think they own chunky) that downsize the can but still charge the same amount.just last week i stocked some cocoa pebbles that were slightly smaller than normal, same barcode and everything except now its 4 servings a box for 4.95 instead of 5 1/5 servings per box.

[@SuperRedNovaDragon]

Yup i work at a DG, they cut every store's hours by 12 last month, They make every employee work 7 days a week for 4 hours a day. They have self checkout but we literally are not allowed to use them. They send way too much stuff on each truck but not enough time scheduled to stock and our back room is very small... its currently overflowed with Christmas stuff. So yeah the place is really ass to work at. Not to meantion, there are no benefits (also no employee discounts) unless you are full time and only managers get full time, you only get holiday pay on thanksgiving and christmas, no bonuses, and the pay is incredibly low

[@madmatt2024]

@@SuperRedNovaDragon How is it shrinkflation when those cans of soup are larger and have a higher printed capacity at EVERY OTHER STORE I buy them from? Only Dollar General have the smaller cans.

[@sonicslm4844]

obviously inflation. major weakness of the business model. Asmon right, rebranding into value brands is the only solution.

[@LegendRonk]

Crime probably helped knock a lot of these stores off

[@ClearMindMediax]

inflation caused by Bidenomics

[@thecursed01]

@@LegendRonk can'T resell dollar store products. they are less affected by the crime and looting sprees than other types of stores

[@LegendRonk]

@@thecursed01 I don't think the idea is reselling from dollar stores... Most of the time it's junk food and low quality products... We all seen the teens mob through these stores stealing just because

[@Dunge0n]

​@@thecursed01 lol, no, dollar store looting is insane now.

[@saltysteel3996]

In Alabama there's a dollar store every half mile. They're everywhere. Drive 10 minutes in any direction and you'll pass a minimum of 3.

[@captainspaulding5963]

Yeah, that's the goal of the company.

[@durandol]

Can confirm.

[@P3DHeem]

This is 🧢. Just left Cortland Alabama and didn't see a dollar store for hours driving around 🥺

[@BillSchrader]

@@P3DHeemThen you haven’t been inside Alabama then.

[@Mike-ul1xn]

the south in general

[@ivannasha5556]

In Sweden we have "Dollar Store". It's basically the same. Some things are still good but for a store that size. You come out with surprisingly few items. The number one thing I've found is razors. You can get a handle +15 razors for about 10$. While only a refill of 4/5 blades at a regular store is 30$+. You gotta look out for shrinkflation at dollar stores. A lot of candy will be 20% less in the bag.

[@NotSure416]

Arizona Ice Tea needs to take over these brands to show them how to sell things for 99¢

[@wesleypharr7539]

And yet I pay over a dollar for their tea.

[@oculus527]

Arizona tea doesn't cost $0.99 anymore

[@Brian2]

​@@wesleypharr7539You can legit email the company where you are paying more at and they will potentially sue them. Each store that sells Arizona Ice Tea does so via a contract that they won't raise the price no matter what. So if you go in say a gas station and they are selling it at 2-6 dollars? AIT will potentially, and has in the past, sue them or remove them from being able to sell it.

[@chanremi5582]

If this is true It is a shame.. I’ve heard back then Arizona used to crack down on stores that sell their drink over their listed can price. Completely refuses to distribute to them to sell. Or it could be that, they have not been informed about the store selling over the price.

[@wesleypharr7539]

@joshuabishopkevna9139 that's cool, still can't get a can of Arizona for 99 cent anywhere

[@FINNIUSORION]

We used to frequent the dollar store for arts and crafts stuff for the kids. Like weekly we would go for paper and paint and shit. Till they started raising the prices and I actually did the math and realized those tiny portions you get are a horrible deal. Everything is way cheaper when you buy it in bulk at Walmart or even Amazon.

[@kathurtado13]

There it is! I started to realize with detergent products.

[@solarmaru49]

Thus you feed into the monopoly that is going to fk you down the line

[@FINNIUSORION]

@@solarmaru49 so shop at the dollar store? That's better? Lol. Go find me some locally sourced pastel crayons.

[@White_Wrath]

​@@solarmaru49it's already f'd lol we are in the dystopia

[@Entropy67]

I've already been doing this since before becoming an adult for this exact reason lol, parents didn't get it... I am not a hoarder! If you buy in bulk its cheaper, if you know your going to need more, buy in bulk.

[@FrankTastic]

I'm from the South and I can confirm that there is literally a Dollar General at every corner. You'd also find a Dollar General in the middle of no where. There's so many and so easy to find that there are literal memes of Dollar General being all over the place.

[@someguyfromtheinternet5102]

Dollar general is american OXXOs in mexico.

[@timothydonovan5647]

The 5 dollar bills the new 1 dollar bill with the rate of everything lol

[@HaYlEeXx19]

Very true, it’s so depressing

[@h33-q8w]

Yep and the nickel is the new pennie. Need to just take the penny and the dollar bill out of circulation because they are worthless now 😂

[@stratking8693]

Just put all your points into Barter or use the item condition glitch, could also rob Silver Rush blind. Maybe if you're lucky hit Vegas?

[@johnvanderploeg6707]

The Dollar Tree closest to me, is so low staffed, nothing gets on the shelf. The aisles are packed with boxes, waiting to be opened and shelved. It's bad enough, I fully expect to hear that a customer was injured trying to navigate the aisles.

[@acbeaumo]

From what I've seen this is pretty typical. The people who frequent these stores are used to it.

[@amphibeingmcshpongletron5026]

Totally common for the Family Dollar near me have only 1 or 2 staff at a time. It's a pretty big store too. I've seen people in line just put their items back and leave because the line's long and someone's at the front trying to return like 20 items. It usually isn't super busy though, so they can get away with it most of the time.

[@annabritt4585]

They expect way to much from there employees but don't give then the support they need

[@DustinDGAF]

All of them are like this. And I have a bunch of them near me, you would think they would just join forces 😂

[@Volkain10]

I work for dollar tree. It’s rough. Sales are down so we don’t get enough payroll to give people hours to work, and corporate thinks just sending more shit to the store will magically increase sales not considering that the product actually needs to be put out to sell.

[@bryanwashere5010]

In a town near mine, 2 years ago they constructed a brand new Family Dollar / Dollar Tree combo store (those were popping up everywhere for a while), but then we heard about the 1000 stores being closed. This brand new location had not even completed a full year of being open and they put everything on liquidation clearance and within a few days the brand new store was closed forever. (Circle Montana)

[@supertyp9148]

In Japan they have a shop called daiso. They sell most items for 110 yen, which is currently 71 cent. You can find everything you could need for your household there. Most products are made in Japan. The business model works if you have competent managers. Aldi is significantly cheaper than Walmart in the USA, while Walmart should have the bigger negotiation power with its suppliers to get better prices. It is possible but the American shareholders are not satisfied with steady profits, profits have to increased year by year and the growth has to outperform inflation, not just match inflation.

[@OciexTevo]

Hence why in Europe most companies are private owned with the CEO having highest shares -IF- they are publically shared. Because nobody likes breathing down your neck. America is just INFINITE NUMBER in... A finite world.

[@termiterasin]

American companies are required to increase profits even if it hurts product quality. Like Boeing paying $13/hr foreign workers to program their airplanes.

[@aarons6935]

We have those in Australia too

[@user-no4fq6ww8s]

Japan is also tariff-happy to my understanding which helps improve stability and predictability/planning in terms of supply, demand, and ultimately prices. Results in less market volatility in exchange for higher costs of foreign goods and services.

[@clarehidalgo]

They have many Daiso in the US too it is like $1.50 where I live

[@devilmaycry9969]

This reminds me of Goodwill and Salvation Army. When I went to those stores I was flabbergasted at the prices. It is getting as comparable as Target and TJ Maxx. At least TJ and Target have brand new clothes.

[@Brian2]

I rarely check the clothing there, what were the prices? What I saw was big items donated, chairs/tables/etc have went up in price though the electronics is still dirt cheap.

[@trailofatrilliontears1045]

Same. I went in for a winter coat and found 2. One was guess and the other Calvin Klein. Neither of them were very fancy. They were both pretty old. The guess coat had a grease stain on it and they both cost $50.00. I was pissed because they got those old coats for free. So I went on Temu and bought 2 coats for $40.00.

[@NorthStarBlue1]

Thrift stores like Goodwill and the like are fully aware now that hipsters are going there looking for "vintage" stuff, and they're taking full advantage of it. I can't blame them really, but it still sucks.

[@IXxhpnotiqxXI]

​@@NorthStarBlue1 Yea once that I'm gonna pop some tags song came out, The jig was up

[@momachill2255]

work at a goodwill the donation door. The people pricing the stuff are being told to make it as expensive as possible to make them weekly or monthly quotas

[@sonicmarsh232]

I remember working at my dollar general and having our credit card machines slowly go offline over the course of two weeks and then having to close the store for a whole week because we couldn't take any credit cards and literally every single customer complained to us despite the fact that we had signage everywhere, saying that we could only do cash

[@melancholymoshpit]

I work at Dollar Tree. I can tell you from personally experience that corporate are intentionally running the stores into the ground. One of the ways they're doing this is that instead of opening stores AND THEN MAKING SURE THE STORES ARE PROPERLY STAFFED AND RUN EFFICIENTLY they throw a couple of bodies in the building and move on to open a new store. The previous store they opened struggles with it's abysmal payroll and the cycle starts all over again. I've have corporate visits where the big wigs are bragging about how many stores they've opened. I always explain to them that they are opening too many stores too fast which confuses the hell out of them. This is just one of many issues that that company is facing. Edit: About security. Jesus will return and fight Jake Paul before Dollar Tree hires security guards. They are vehemently against it.

[@thefakecat8340]

Its not just dollar stores but retail in general. I use to work at a burlington coat factory (i worked security and recently got terminated for stopping a shoplifter.) And i constantly heard them open new stores. People were getting promotions but i worked at one of the big stores and them moving around the great employees slowly dwindled the efficiency. Barely speedy cashiers, no reliable employees who could work the necessary ships, no employees whatsover because they were cutting hours and it was only last year where pay was raised to $13hr

[@tubeo94]

Every family dollar store i see has broken glass door.

[@bl8388]

@@tubeo94 Those are the best ones. If the door isn't broken, I know it's not a real Family Dollar.

[@justinthematrix]

Jesus will return and fight Jake Paul lmao 😂

[@could_neverbe_me]

This video is a 'lie.' They are doing better than ever and simply trying to earn more money while keeping the name.

[@charlesbrown4483]

As someone in the rural south I have some relevant input here. Dollar stores got really popular in the late 2000’s after Walmart finished off the last of family owned, local businesses. But in the rural south, lots of people don’t live near the towns where Walmarts exist. They might live 20, 30, 45 minutes away. Dollar stores flooded these areas and replaced the market of the little mom and pop shops that used to exist in between where rural Americans lived, and the towns closest to them. Places where you could go get milk and bread and other basic stuff without having to drive all the way into town. Plus they were relatively cheap. We didn’t like it, but it was better than nothing. Now it’s no longer better than nothing because they’re not cheap anymore, in fact they’re more expensive than going to Walmart. That was really the only thing they had going for them because people aren’t willing to spend more there they way they would be with a mom and pop shop. So it’s actually worse the gas the drive a little further into town to go to a Walmart. But walmart is also dying. Maybe I’m gullibly optimistic, but we could see a moderate return of small business in the not so distant future. Hopefully walmart and the dollar stores alike will continue to eat themselves in pursuit of exponential profit. That will leave a void in rural America that, with any luck, could be filled with the return of small business.

[@jhoughjr1]

I remember our mom and pop store. Never seen so much blue mold on pizza or bugs in sealed cereal. Ower died of stomaxh cancer too.

[@banhammer3904]

Ironically, to get something cheap, you have to send someone with a pick up truck to the nearest big city and buy everyone's shopping for them.

[@EvilMonkey7818]

While I hope you are correct I wouldn't hold my breath, except for neighborhood corner stores/bodegas in urbanized areas. We'd have to see an era of deflation followed by very low inflation. The Federal Reserve and other central banks will not let that pattern happen. At the first signs of deflation they will devalue currency with the money printer, claiming to be saviors while be destroyers for most people.

[@XaadeTheBlade]

​@@EvilMonkey7818 Deflation doesn't work opposite of inflation, it combines with inflation. Deflation is prices go down, inflation is costs go up. Both impact margin the same, but in different directions. Both lead to spiraling in that direction.

[@JimothyBridgemont]

Don’t know if you actually watched the video, but Walmart’s profits were up 4% from the previous year.

[@dirtydaniel91]

I live in rural Ohio and there is literally a Dollar General every few miles. There isn't one in my village, it's a Family Dollar but there is a DG 3 miles down the road outside of the next village. Family Dollar here is a rip-off when the price is almost 2x what it would be at wal-mart for food. I get about 15k a year and only go to the Dollar store when I only need 1 item and it's not worth the fuel to drive the 20 miles to the wal-mart or kroger. And as a employee in these sh*thole stores you are required to do everything including the stocking, register and cleaning, usually being the only person in the store as well. It's not worth the wage so people quit quite often.

[@Datakrashcollective]

Meanwhile here in North Carolina they’re building a Dollar General every 2 miles…

[@monotypical_]

I use to work at a dollar tree back in 2018. It has nothing to do with inflation or anything. They were talking about rising prices years before Covid. They were already dying back then.

[@CatroiOz]

Rising prices is called inflation mate so yes it has everything to do with it🙄

[@VespasianJudea]

@@CatroiOz Wow, how contrarian. You’re awesome.

[@TheJepeth]

😂​@@CatroiOz

[@Matthew_Kunovic]

Yeah, they were always going to increase prices or decrease serving sizes regardless.

[@robertbslee4209]

No wonder you were working at Dollar Tree

[@team4star1]

Did the quick math on those gain sheets, it’s literally double the price at the dollar store in that scenario. It’s infuriating. (240/15=16, you would have to buy the dollar store pack 16 times to get the same amount as the target bundle. Then 16 x $1.25 is $20)

[@HydrusT]

You can buy toenail clippings for a dollar each 😂.

[@iansrven3023]

I'm just picturing the bins of toenail clippings. Perhaps they have the superhero with the worst power known to man tied up that they harvest them from.

[@ThisHandleIsNotAvailable.]

​@@iansrven3023 True. I don't clip my toe nails. I harvest my toe nails.

[@Catmeat106]

They’re a yummy snack 🤭

[@xDeathCrownx]

Our dollar general in Sioux would always get robbed no matter what shot or drive by its a life or death store

[@chilldudie242]

They should invest in a police force in that city or the national guard should come deal with the gang problem

[@voodoowill4685]

Heres the major problems, Store fronts are abysmal, dirty parking lots, not well taken care of. The inside of the stores are hideous, theyre not taken care of and there are items all over the place, the aisles are not taken care of and products are literally all over the place. they are always under staffed and the employees just do not care about anything but collecting a paycheck these days. They boast making billions in profits but those profits never go towards paying the employee more or getting better quality products for the same price. they dont incentivise their employees ever and they place these locations in the crappiest locations.

[@xantharian]

As someone who has worked at Dollar Tree, the customers are part of the problem with messy stores. The majority of the problem is the managements lack of having people to clean up the aisles or just pure laziness. They are lucky if they are able to have more than 2 people there at the same time since the way the schedule is based on how many hours corp gives them.

[@ZeallustImmortal]

The dollar store I worked at would have teenagers come in every day after school and throw balls around the aisles making a huge mess. Adding to the already unreasonable expected work.

[@_ghr0_]

The items that are stacked up in the aisles of Dollar General are 95% overstock and the high demand items are always out of stock for a month. Dollar General has a severe logistics issue where local manager can't change the allocation and their Tennessee Corporate Office doesn't understand supply & demand. Thankfully the Government has started to fine them due to it being a fire hazard and has caused a ripple effect of increasing wages, but it doesn't fix the problem that they have to jam overstock in whatever empty locations are available. What makes it worse is the local beverage distributors control what is carried in the drinks aisle, and they completely ignore area based supply & demand as well. Even without the price increases, why would you enter a store that isn't selling what you need?

[@Veritas231]

Im a delivery driver for a beverage company. My role is to drive the product to the store and stock what is empty. The salesman of my route tends to not gaf and proceeds to not order what they need. Often times he repeats the same order from a week ago with slight variance. This often results in certain product being overstocked and other simply missing. Ive complained to my supervisors and to other bosses. Nothing gets done to resolve the issue. They dont fire people for being incompetent salesmen and im stuck delivering product they dont need. Stuff goes expired, the manager gets mad, the salesmans boss gets on his ass. He does a genuine order for a week or two weeks then its back to the same BS. Thats why after 1.5 years here im done. Imagine that happens at all these overstocked stores.

[@ugn154]

I completely agree. OSJL corporate morons have this exact same problem and make the same mistakes. They overstock on things people don't want that just sit on the shelves for months while others expire and are either thrown away or donated. They don't get that the overstock that we have is just taking up space and it's weighing down the top shelf to the point of it breaking down and becoming a hazard. IDC what anybody says, just because someone works with corporate or gets paid VERY well, does not mean they're smart. OSJL is known for buying cheap shit and reselling it, along with taking advantage of bankrupt businesses to resell their products.

[@Chaos__]

Agreed, as one of the warehouse guys, we keep saying that all of the time. And DG doesn't care about listening to the people with actual experience.

[@jhoughjr1]

Yeah i hate never being able to walk around their chaotic cluttered stinky stores

[@lambo_drives]

9:24 just had to buy a new stove this week… COMPLETE set back for the Holidays.

[@kungfreddie]

Some ppl steal bcoz they don’t have money. Others steal bcoz they want an adrenaline rush. And then some do it bcoz they just feel entitled to the stuff and rather save their money bcoz they think the consequences are so bland that they just don’t care.

[@foreignuser_]

stop using "bcoz" you aren't 12

[@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer]

If people only stole what they needed to survive, we'd see alot more bread being stolen and not nikes and non perishable goods that are sold on sidewalks.

[@godish_tv8623]

Bruh if I lived in California every day would be devious lick after devious lick 😂😂 Its something like you have to steal over $900 of stuff to get anything more than a ticket lol you see people masked up walk into the shop with a suitcase, fill that shit and walk out 😂😂😂😂

[@elyootafaridzadeh1164]

my dad knows this 55 year old bald man who steals every small things like singe fruits and nuts! when we asked him he said your last reason : i dont care!

[@frankvonfrauner]

​@@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer it's a lot more time efficient to steal something that's worth a lot and is in demand. Getting $60 for a pair of $200 Jordans vs Stealing a $3 load of bread. Having to steal once vs 20 times for the same dollar value.

[@unitedempireofamerica6414]

I worked for Dollar tree for 2 years one of the big problems is that they only have 2 people there at all times one running the cash register and the other the manager who has to stock the sales floor by themselves and are limited by hours the store is gives them making it impossible to have more than two people working at the same time

[@Brian2]

The one near me recently did a remodel with new flooring and they have 3-4 active people at nearly all time. To be fair that is the only one of the 5 within a few miles of each other that does that. A 2 of the other 4 only ever has 1 person working while the others have 2 people working.

[@dondahighhh12]

that's every one of those retail jobs. so understaffed and the manager has to do everything.

[@chaos.corner]

@@dondahighhh12 The one closest to me, there will typically be no one at the register until you need to check out. Which kinda makes sense and was the way general stores used to work.

[@SRose-vp6ew]

Living in an urban area I’m surrounded by dollar trees. However, I go to the dollar tree where it’s probably the busiest, but it’s also the cleanest. People just respect the store and know the nice workers by name. Literally just blocks away there are bitter workers and horrible customers. In a psychology class, we once talked about how you can set the tone of a store by how nice the store is at open. If you have trash on the floor, people will throw more trash on the floor, if you have it orderly, people will keep it more orderly. I will also take some time to put things away, and there’s so many regular customers that act like that, the store is probably a better place to work than others despite still having issues your going to have, the workers make the best of it and the customers tend to act better. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a Dollar Tree. It’s far from perfect, but the managers have been there faithfully and it shows. They also had hired physically disabled individuals who benefited from the pre-5 buck section back when everything was a dollar and light. Dollar Tree is losing their niche. Right when it’s needed. Other brand stores will fill the vacuum and replace it if they are not careful.

[@chaos.corner]

@@SRose-vp6ew Yes. Our dollar tree is pretty nice for what it is. A little cramped but generally clean and tidy.

[@PintOfBass4l]

Those mustard sardines on screen at 9:11 are the only reason I go to dollar stores. I'll buy them out on a good run it will last me half a year.

[@cmthomas07]

My dad and my husband. 🐟🐟🐟

[@Aaron5978]

You guys are getting Aldi and Lidl? Get ready for a great time. Those stores have upended the 'traditional' grocery brands here in the UK

[@FuriKitten]

I think aldi is tied to Krogers (?) in the US

[@Katsura-San124]

Aldi has been here since the early 2000s at least.

[@IXxhpnotiqxXI]

​@@Katsura-San124Yea Aldi has been in the States for a while now. I remember back in 08 i went to a few Aldi's in Florida when i was in college

[@danielmcguire7344]

We've definitely had aldi for like 20 years at least in the US. We also have lidl in the form of trader Joe's.

[@bl8388]

Aldi grocery would be great if it wasn't the size of a gas station. Most of our grocery stores are 2-3 x bigger. Remember a quarter for the shopping cart and bring your own bags or pay extra for them.

[@ShotByZy]

I live in Dayton, Ohio and there’s like 8 Dollar Generals within a 5 mile radius of my house alone😂

[@hassanmeraj8037]

Since 2021 none of them are dollar store anymore. Inflation went through the roof that even dollar tree goes from $1 to $1.25. and more than that some product are $5.

[@Falsechicken]

4:58 I love that the conveyor isn't working for the shot. Perfect depiction of a Dollar Tree. xD

[@identityman3247]

Oh no i hope they wont close them all up these are the places i go to try out the new sodas and flavored chips that be coming out monthly 🥺

[@bodbn]

Try salad

[@StormyDoesVR]

Bro at 8:25 I most definitely have had the gas price anxiety hit me. Especially if I'm watching a family member's house but have to drive to work I have to carefully plan how much I spend to make sure I have enough gas to last me til the next paycheck 😵‍💫

[@Nojiko12]

dude i'm getting old.... i remember buying 4 chocolate bars for a dollar.... now its over two dollars each... i'm sad now

[@someguyfromtheinternet5102]

Ask your dad about how things was. Shits gonna fuck you up for real.

[@LastExpellian]

I've worked at a DG store for the last 4 years and its been a steady decline in profit the every quarter.

[@foreignuser_]

not a dollar store anyway

[@captainspaulding5963]

​@@foreignuser_ they never said it was, but thanks for letting everyone know you don't know how to comprehend what you are reading.

[@Towelgravy]

Huh? Dollar stores haven't been a dollar in Canada for about 15 years. Maybe 20? You'll go in and they'll have single paperclips for $1 but everything was like $2-10 last time I went in.

[@chr1s.c]

Same in the UK we have pound land stores nothing in the stores is a pound anymore

[@Tranquilized_]

Why say that ? This is to show Bidens america, you are ruining it.

[@diegoxavier9107]

​@@Tranquilized_The UK's economy is so heavily entangled with the USA's, it legitimately doesn't matter one way or the pther

[@thothheartmaat2833]

more like the pound sand store...

[@turtleflipper9935]

99p shop was the superior shop

[@Money_Hoarder_95]

We also had Poundworld before it went bankrupt in 2018.

[@nbrown5907]

What also happened is Amazon and now Temu, even Walmart has third party junk sellers now.

[@SavageDarkness]

The eridest thing is that I live in a city of under 20K and we have 5-6 DGs and one FD.

[@kevingutierrez1997]

Worked at a family dollar distribution center back when I was younger, can confirm, in Florida no AC. It was brutal.

[@gelliebeane6789]

Just curious, why didn't any of the employees call OSHA?

[@Sufferinwithmat]

@@gelliebeane6789chiming in as I’ve worked at family dollar DC for 7 years and i actually helped out down at the Mariana FL location can confirm no ac but it isn’t a requirement it’s actually sad how hot it has to be to be an OSHA violation. But plus side is now they HAVE to have AC so we can still sell medicine but it has nothing to do with quality of life and it’s still hotter than fuck

[@computerbiscuit]

Remember kids prices went up! Profits went up! But we still only pay our employees $7.25 an hour:)

[@JohahnDiechter]

Not in blue states. We raised our min wage

[@BoreanScape]

@@JohahnDiechter Arizona is a red state and the wage is $14.35.Florida is a red state as well and it's wage is 12.00.Minimum wage should be higher across the board while being adjusted to local cost of living.A lot of minimum wage jobs specifically in Arizona are 14.50 even more in the big cities.Covid impact has done irreversible damage on the state of inflation as an whole on the economy that probably won't be fixed in a generation regardless who's president.Biden was president since 2020 and inflation only gotten worse, Trump did tariffs in first term and economy was in a lot better state overall than under Biden's objectively no matter what side you are on.The numbers speak for themselves, so did the mandate, the trifecta, he won the popular and electoral vote for republicans which hasn't been seen in over twenty years.During the very beginning of the Covid era, Trump gave stimulus checks to everyone, I haven't seen Biden give any money directly to the poor since post and during Covid era.

[@harbosonius]

@@JohahnDiechter😂😂😂 that’s because the cost of living in those blue states is higher, just like the crime rates in blue states too.

[@spyderav8r]

@@harbosonius Trey Gowdy once said, "Rights don't matter if you're dead." similarly Better pay doesn't matter if you're dead.

[@derzwerg9167]

"kids prices" Nice

[@dawsonk9298]

Dollar stores are among the first thing to go out of business in a or just before a recession

[@Stormsorter]

The amount of stores DG opens is ridiculous. My towns population is under 3k and we have two DG's, its fucking dumb.

[@OciexTevo]

7k and 3 here.

[@termiterasin]

They have sizes more close to gas stations but have product selection more like walmart. They fill a niche.

[@brucepreston3927]

I live in a city with a population of 90,000 and we have a ton of Dollar Generals, 4 dollar trees, and 5-6 other "dollar" stores...There are also Dollar General stores in every tiny community around the county where I live...

[@chaos.corner]

@@termiterasin I love being able to walk down the street and pick up a gallon of milk instead of driving to the big grocery stores. Mind you, it's the big grocery stores that put an end to that in the first place.

[@russellmusictv4403]

1 here for 1,090 people.

[@thecrazedchef7278]

17:17 I relate to this too hard. Alot of us low on the totem pole workers dealing with americas crime and drug problem have it pretty rough. I work as a case manager at a rehab where the bosses refused to fix the AC thats been out since spring since they "already spent too much on repairs this year". I love most of my clients, but god damn it was a powder keg over the summer. Getting stuck with a bunch of pissed off people coming off fentanyl or meth mixed with who knows what barwly getting over minimum wage, definitely had more than my share of really sucky days.

[@unpotatoedsalmon]

I bought a mini moto as my only vehicle because 150 mpg on a 125cc is great maintenance is cheap and if I get in an accident I don’t even need to worry about medical costs

[@wokeamerica142]

Lol grom squad

[@bucky5676]

Lol. I live in GA. There are literally 6 dollar generals in town. 2-3 of them aren’t even far apart from each other.

[@ThatGuyNamedRick]

if you lump "Dollar General", "Family Dollar", and "Dollar Tree" together, you can practically pick up a rock, toss it, and hit the window of any of the above, pick up another rock, toss that, and hit the window of another store.

[@gamer22ftw]

i have 11 of them in a 15 mile radius lmao.

[@Brian2]

​@@gamer22ftw5 within 5 miles for me. And one last month remodeled with new flooring so they are doing solid lol

[@Lady_Voronkova]

I know of a strip mall near me with a dollar tree and a dollar general 2 stores down

[@KatAdVictoriam]

I'm in rural Georgia and I've counted. 1 Dollar General every 5-6 miles along main highways. Then 2 within close distance from a downtown area. Dollar Trees are only ever next to bigger retailers in a plaza with a Walmart or Food Lion or Kroger. Dollar Generals in my area are way understaffed but stay busy when you don't wanna drive 20 minutes to Walmart.

[@scythe5944]

Worst experience I've had at a Dollar Store was before covid back in 18/19, a woman had 2 carts of glass plates and cups, wanting to pay with a restaurant tab service once everything was scanned. The cashier had no idea how to use the tab service and had to get the manager to take over. The employee took about 20 minutes to scan everything and the employee couldn't open another lane once the manager started working through the process due to being logged in to that register. Currently the store has a homeless camp at the side of the store and there's trash everywhere.

[@HumilityInTeaching]

Wow lol

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

That's the Dollar Store ambiance I'm used to. Well actually that sounds more like the 99¢Only Store's environment from what I've experienced but those are already all gone unfortunately. 😅👍

[@memenazi7078]

Oh mine has a camp too, found some good green there once

[@Thejadedgamer]

Our dollar stores here in Northwest San antonio are fine. We do get the one or 2 workers there and long lines tho. I feel any place without a self checkout is like that.

[@Stovetopcookie]

They don’t want to employ people

[@SekiberiusWelkesh]

They should rebrand as Value Stores and focus on selling products cheaper than typical stores. Prices have inflated to the point where selling things for a dollar isn't really economically viable anymore, but there's still a market for cheaper alternatives.

[@JohahnDiechter]

That would be bad for business. The business model succeeds because it takes advantage of the poor by ripping them off with lackluster products

[@harbosonius]

@@JohahnDiechter Dude, seriously? Who walks into a dollar store and expecting high quality products in the first place? It’s a dollar store😂😂😂😂 The main reason prices are high is inflation, the second reason is rampant shoplifting.

[@jhoughjr1]

Psst it wasnt viable even 20 years ago. Look around ull see

[@teamofone1219]

If dollar general closes down you know the apocalypse is upon us.

[@trilight3597]

Like Waffle house closing is a sign of how bad the weather is.

[@gelliebeane6789]

​@@trilight3597 😂

[@americanidle1277]

And Grocery Outlet isn't worth it anymore either. They have old damaged discontinued goods that are sometimes more expensive than Walmart which doesn't have any of those problems so there's no reason to go to grocery outlet

[@MadmanRuvik]

Bruh you can go to Walmart and spend like an extra 2-3$ on some things for just overall more like Toilet Paper, big ass bags of hard cat food, Laundry Detergent, garbage bags, and sometimes even stuff like chips you can get bigger bags for normally almost the exact same Dollar General will charge for a smaller or regular bag.

[@foreignuser_]

there's zero reason for an adult to go into a dollar general or a family dollar. they aren't even dollar stores. they are bullshit stores of convenience, like a big 711 with no fresh food

[@thestanleys3235]

People steal because they don't have as much money as they would like. For some that means stealing to survive but for many others it means stealing to get some designer clothes and a nicer phone.

[@alexanderthered5603]

More often than not it has nothing to do with money. They just don't want to spend it. And they can get away with it, especially in specific cities, so "why not?"

[@Robert_D_Mercer]

@@alexanderthered5603 this is insane. I have refused to steal, yet im here begging still. PLEASE can a streamer PLEAS just help a dude..

[@Niterayde]

If your’ survival depends on you stealing something then you’d have made damn sure you can steal whatever it is and get away clean, otherwise it’s useless.

[@richarddoyle3420]

Spell it - T R O L L.

[@jhoughjr1]

Neither ur gonna find in a dollar store

[@IIITangentIII]

In my area I have already seen this entire thing play out. We had a dollar store called six Star. Eventually they became a dollar and more. That opened the door for the chains like Dollar tree to come in. Pretty soon The few six star dollar and more stores went out of business. It was no longer a dollar store. Dollar tree was offering what people had come to love the other store for and the other store changed the rules. Doesn't matter how big the Dollar tree has become. If a new dollar store chain opens up and truly offers goods for a dollar... Goodbye Dollar tree. The same way big chains will offer the best prices to kill the competition and then Jack the prices up. That only works until competition comes in with lower prices than yours then becomes the new big shark in the sea.

[@9odfathr]

Dude Dollar Generals are everywhere in Southern Virginia & like 5-15 minutes from eachother, ones 1 minute from my home lmao

[@devarient]

Way to dox yourself

[@Canofwhoopass1000]

there is 2 in the town near me that has a population of less than 3,600 people, oh not to mention the family dollar/dollar tree store that's also operating there.

[@xxzenonionnex7658]

@@devarient 🤡

[@John_1-1_in_Japanese]

@@devarient "Oh no, he knows I live in this half of a state bigger than some countries" Big deal. Unless you use a VPN, every single network service you've ever used knows your ISP.

[@mustwereallydothis]

I distinctly recall having a conversation when dollar stores first started coming onto the scene about how stupid we thought they were to name their company after the current price of their products as if inflation didn't exist. I'm genuinely shocked that they somehow managed to keep it up for as long as they did.

[@timkrouse345]

I guess it would cost too much to shrink the package contents even smaller as the manuf. would have to redesign and change their manufacturing/packaging, so the only option was to raise prices.

[@joshuacress5174]

Mismanagement and greed is what caused this.

[@HippieGamerDude]

As someone who sees a dollar general every place I look, I think we could do with some new scenery. This and mattress firms…

[@stratking8693]

Who else will represent my mattress?

[@jamesjarrait5926]

There is six doller generals in my town. Two of them are barely half a mile from each other. Another just a mile further. That's a minute apart at 30mph... They are clearly eating their own lunch. Two dollar trees which are spread much futher out, they should probably convert theol one of the two stores that you can basically see at the same time into a dollar tree because it would still be significantly further out from the other two.

[@foreignuser_]

dollar generals are not dollar stores, though. they are fast, convenient, and very trashy versions of larger grocery stores and they often charge higher prices to boot.

[@jhoughjr1]

They are a money laundering op

[@chrishesotian1654]

the sidewalk at the entrance to these places, is THE most rancid, disgusting piece of concrete you will ever come across. never fails. every location.

[@cmthomas07]

Had a large garbage can in front our local Family Dollar, they said it made too much of a mess so they removed it. 🤔

[@joshuamw93]

9:01 I am going through that right now. Broke down 5 days ago and have been trying to get enough money to get the part replaced before it gets towed and i lose it forever. Shits so stressful.

[@foreignuser_]

automobiles are ther ball and chain you never asked for. liberate yourself.

[@stealthshopper2092]

@@foreignuser_ yeah, just ride a horse everywhere...top kek

[@jhoughjr1]

@@foreignuser_yeah try living in the US without one.

[@foreignuser_]

@@jhoughjr1 i live in florida and haven't owned a car in a decade. some areas it's tougher than others. i ride a bicycle everywhere i need to go. i still save money even if i have to use an uber once or twice a month because of weather

[@John-0314]

I work at a Dollar General. It was absolute sh!t before i started in june, 2-3 year old food in the store. My boss is a horid woman. She hasnt let me work in almost two months, keeps taking me off the schedule, if she doesnt, she just sends me home. Now im broke, and cant put gas in my car. She's a horrible Narcissist. Even tried cheating me out of hours i worked just to petty. Theres sooo much else i could say.

[@Willrocs]

lol she has a boss

[@Rhiorrha]

Not saying you're lying, but your choice of words is pinging you as a brit/UK person...

[@Ceratisa]

Sounds like retaliation

[@jhoughjr1]

Quit. Dont let them enslave you like that

[@Sufferinwithmat]

I work at dollar tree family dollar distribution the company is for sale but they can’t find an investor lol I don’t know what else to do with my life

[@ubw343]

Dead reason: inflation and Temu

[@theforkedman3030]

The average person can't afford dollar stores. Companies continue to do mass firing and stall if not stop pay raises across industries. The executives still get hundred thousand dollar bonuses.

[@Pexil_Effex]

Eventually everyone will be unemployed, and poor. And at that point, people will have enough and say "off with their heads"

[@infectaphibian]

@@Pexil_Effex Anyone that took a history 101 class should know what coming..

[@coxnevin]

I work for dollar general, and yeah Dollar general actually did do the whole online pickup thing and they did this really cool idea of just letting any customer just add an order of any size at any time and the cashier/bagger/janitor/stocker/supervisor/price changer/inventory counter/shelf setter would have to run around the store and get every single item, make sure its the EXACT item and have it all bagged and ready to go before the customer arrived.

[@H33t3Speaks]

My wife calls them the "Not Dollar Stores"

[@paddington1670]

in the 90s they were

[@robertguay3773]

This is what happens when the people who are making the decisions on what to sell to the poor people are making 500k a year plus. They become so out of touch.

[@nipkomania]

@@paddington1670They were until 2019.

[@thetightwadhomesteader3089]

When dollar tree went to 1.25 I started calling it "dollar and 2 bits store".

[@captainspaulding5963]

Dollar General and Family Dollar were NEVER "dollar stores".... you are extremely confused with 99 cent stores. Just because it says Dollar in the name, that has no bearing on the prices..... do you go to Walmart to look for walls?

[@corystarkiller]

Crime causes poverty. Poverty doesn't cause crime. There's many poor locations that aren't crime hotspots.

[@flexmeister344]

Was an assistant manager at dollar general (Bx,NYC) a year ago, can confirm the boxes everywhere and sometimes aisles being randomly blocked off by u boats or cages full of merchandise. Beginning of 2022, there was still a good amount of items you can find for a dollar but now guaranteed everything is 1.25 and above. I had to do price changes every 2-4 months and slowly watched everything in the store get more expensive some cents at a time. Luckily the store I worked at the AC was fine. The main issue for me was the community unfortunately, being in the Bronx it’s practically lowkey a lawless land over here, boosting/thievery was at an all time high and security guards really isn’t a thing at dollar general. They try to hire security like people as a “greeter” for the store but what are they gonna do when a thief whips out a shank on them for trying to stop them from stealing merchandise that’s less than 20 dollars ? Some stores don’t even have this greeter position so they expect the workers to be managers/cashiers/asset protection all at the same time for minimum wage most likely. But yeah the thievery is literally an everyday occurrence from specific numerous individuals that practically makes it their job to steal merchandise and try to flip it on the outside. The most common thing they went for is the laundry detergent. Left that bitch earlier this year and I ain’t ever going back.

[@NotSure416]

"A fumigation of the Family Dollar warehouse resulted in the extermination of 1,270 rodents, according to court documents" Holy shit, that's a lot of rats.

[@brianthesnail3815]

It doesn't take that long to get that many if there is a food source. Its exponential growth. Take away the food they eat each other.

[@captainspaulding5963]

If you are surprised by this for some reason, go look up how many bug parts are ALLOWED to be in things like peanut butter.

[@kokocaptainqc]

could be mice...theres other rodents than rats

[@brianthesnail3815]

@@kokocaptainqc Where there are mice there are never rats. The rats eat the mice.

[@brianthesnail3815]

@@captainspaulding5963 Trust me, I used to be a farmer. I saw them going through the combine harvester, then there were the ones in the storage bins, then the trucks, then the warehouse. Its protein. Best not rat urine and whole birds though. 🤮

[@xuzadem]

It's kind of the issue with this style of capitalism they grow and grow and grow to increase revenue and then they cant sustain and do lay offs and close stores instead of just keeping a decent profit going they just grow until they can't grow anymore

[@cosmicelectron]

The problem is the inflation hitting their customer base, and making their products more expensive and increasing their fixed costs. They are saying they're getting squeezed out of the market not expanding won't solve this, it's not some need for endless growth in each individual stores revenue that's causing them to get squeezed out, it's government financial policy forcing their business into redundancy by making their business model impossible,

[@xuzadem]

​@@cosmicelectron I'm sure youve heard this before but do you think the government has a push here for less inflation button cause if they did I'm sure every president would be pushing it to remain in power inflation was the consequence of COVID it's the reason why the whole world has it and not just one country but my point still stands businesses right now have a obligation to consistently increase profits by any means to appease there shareholders to the detriment of consumers

[@cosmicelectron]

@@xuzadem They do have a "less inflation" button; it’s called the Federal Reserve. The root issue wasn’t COVID itself but the trillions of dollars thrown around without any corresponding rise in productivity. When you flood the economy with new money but don’t produce more goods or services, inflation is inevitable. The reason politicians don’t "press the button" to cut inflation is because reining in spending is career suicide. Voters often focus on the size of their government checks and don’t see the long-term damage from reckless money printing. Promising endless spending is politically safer, even if it worsens inflation down the road. As for businesses seeking profit, you’re right-they aim to maximize it. But let’s be clear: inflation also hurts their customers, and in a competitive market, raising prices to protect profits only works temporarily. Eventually, companies that can’t offer value lose out to more efficient competitors. The root problem isn’t corporate greed; it’s the expansion of the money supply and excessive government spending.

[@darkcoderuk]

Inflation is caused by governments debasing their money supply, so of course they have the ability to control it. However, it's an easy way to get free money by taxing everyone so they will never stop.

[@chaos.corner]

@@xuzadem They have a more inflation button and they're leaning on it hard. It's called deficit spending. You may have heard of it as "money printer go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

[@silverbackhayabusa]

Protip: If you're single and broke, you have a small set of funds and can't take advantage of expense opportunities but if you get married and work as a team, you've doubled your funds and can now take advantage of expense opportunities.

[@nickpatton3199]

If being hungry was the reason for stealing, why would they be stealing anything besides food? It's not starvation that drives theft.... time to wake up.

[@neoconnor4395]

Dollar Tree freaking rules! Tylenol! Razors! And Tylenol! And razors! You can also get $5 pizza... Honestly, Dollar Tree saves me hundreds of dollars a year. It's great, but you have to wait lines with crackheads and crackheads check you out at the counter... Oh, and toilet paper and paper towels, and dish soap.. There are seriously great uses of Dollar Tree. Dollar General is the one where literally nothing is in the Dollar range.

[@Brian2]

It is also the best place to shop for nieces and nephews when they are going lol

[@neoconnor4395]

@Brian2 Yeah, it's also good for shampoo and conditioner... but I have dreadlocks, so..

[@neoconnor4395]

@Brian2 Dollar Tree rocks, man! I would legit be sad if it closed down. If you can handle those long crackhead lines and people on heroin checking you out, get some stuff!

[@thothheartmaat2833]

i get all my car parts from dollar tree.. i got a differential and even an engine...

[@thend4427]

Bet the pizza sucked

[@Whodamans]

"imagine living here" He points directly at my county LOL. There are 3 within 1.5 miles on the main strip going through my 1 horse town. 2 dollar generals and a family dollar/dollar tree combo. If the road didn't curve you could literally see both dollar generals at the same time. Its insane.

[@rudysmith1552]

Lol

[@MacSoSteezy]

9:27 I’m literally walking home rn because my car broke down… this IRLMMO fucking sucks IGN 1/10 too much hunger

[@foreignuser_]

get used to it. cars suck for everybody.