What Is Going On With Family Dollar? | Retail Archaeology

[@arcane438]

Two or three employees per store can only do so much when they’re constantly running a register at the same time

[@Dave102693]

That's my local store

[@Tt-hu7kj]

Every store will be like this soon because of online shopping they cutting back in all retail

[@CommodoreFan64]

I use to work for Dollar General for 5 1/2 years, and can confirm you can only do so much with a limited number of staff on duty, and when 1/2 the people you work with don't give 2 craps about their job, and you are stuck busting ass to get 4 roll containers of stock put up by yourself on a single 6 hour shift.

[@CAPCOM784]

@@CommodoreFan64 Hard to find good workers these days.

[@paultaylor256]

@@CAPCOM784 Ain't that the truth!

[@PeterKruchowski]

They are well known for not treating their employees well. They don't have enough people and the people they do have are not treated well.

[@epsorks]

Peter Kruchowski correct you are. I have near my workplace and I never rush them or anything, because I know that they get the short end, me bitching about waiting an extra minute or two doesn't do them any good.

[@robbrown6934]

Six. Months then they quit. Chasing folks for .99 cent product even cops laugh

[@gchipley]

I worked at one of their warehouses for a long time, they don’t treat employees well at all.

[@i.robles5785]

@Richard Skipper unionizing solves problems

[@i.robles5785]

@Richard Skipper prospect.org/article/why-joining-union-good-your-well-being Don't let the american propaganda fool you. There is a good reason why businesses try so hard to squash out unions and it's not because they care. Its because they want to make sure the worker continues to recieve shit or no benefits for pennies. There is plenty of sources explaining it

[@yrnxthing]

why tf this popped up in my recommended and I actually watched it? this is dope lmao

[@bigmommatron]

Retail archeology is one of my favorite channels check his mall videos out they're so calming and fun to watch

[@bcubed72]

There's three "dollar" stores where I live: Family Dollar, Dollar General, and Dollar Tree. I kept getting them confused, until my wife just started calling them "Red Dollar, Yellow Dollar, and Green Dollar."

[@seanhartnett79]

Lol.

[@eddiew2325]

@@seanhartnett79 if it makes u feel better I will buy u a banana

[@dreckken]

Brilliant!

[@someguy9070]

Your wife’s quite the comedian lol.

[@LeftyPencil]

Red and Green dollar are now the same company...Still using the separate names..

[@dereknowak1978]

i didn't watch til the end but i think something you don't bring up is that in small towns these stores thrive because you don't have anywhere else to go

[@IsolatedModder]

Derek Nowak Food deserts are a known issue in the US. Very remote areas have an accessibility issue, where it's incredibly costly to transport resources, and sometimes the closest psuedo-department store can be up to 30 minutes to even an hour away.

[@Cappytain101]

Like Union

[@theWEITNA]

This is very true

[@jake_of_the_jungle9840]

Lol I thought it was normal that the closest stores are about 30 mins from where I live. But living in Vermont is worth it

[@Chocolate6mac8]

Yea now that the conglomerate tyrant: Walmart, hiked it's prices, Dollar stores in my home state, Delaware; There are family Dollar, Dollar General, and Dollar Tree stores in every town! No matter if the next town is ten miles

[@Iwished4]

Went to a family store once.. for shits and giggles bought a clearance pack of Pokemon cards, turns out it had a rare Charizard card .. made 100 bucks on eBay

[@BigNateDoggOG]

The Paws that card probably worth a grand now lol

[@electron2601]

Sell it before the fad bubble bursts.

[@chaosdracos]

@@electron2601 he already sold it as he said, lmao

[@Valhalla_Heathen]

Good for you! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@xCrossBite]

A lot of us poor folk have bugs. They sell a lot of bug spray. It's not rocket science. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@NHSSHINOBI]

Yooo wtf🤣

[@Yomika14xyukina44]

Chemical it's still a thing i don't get. how poor do you have to be ? cause even when i was poor we didn't have any bugs

[@krozareq]

Pesticides in regular grocery/discount stores are trash. Even Lowe's and HD carry the ineffective stuff. Go to a farm store. The stuff there doesn't mess around.

[@epiphonessg2249]

Dont be poor I guess....

[@xCrossBite]

@@Yomika14xyukina44 hopefully you'll never know! 👍

[@SAMPLETEXT285]

I feel like family dollar employees are used to getting robbed at gunpoint

[@jordanmenendez6741]

Hahahaha

[@scorpioshit5159]

First accurate comment *bro I work at FD and got robbed for 100$ once. Not by gun point but STILL*

[@TheUtuber999]

Robber: "Gimme all your money!" Cashier: "Is $100 in Ones okay?" Robber: "Ugh, never mind!"

[@holopearl1829]

I can just imagine this... "Alright, so you're almost done with training! Just one last exercise..." "Cool, what is it?" *robber walks in* Alright Family Dollar, you know the drill! "...this isnt part of the training, is it?" "Its standard procedure."

[@Fungigi]

I discouraged my husband from Working at family dollar for this reason.

[@augustus1889]

Hi, I'm one of the employees being let go as part of the massive store closings. The issue with our store specifically was that an outside group owned the building and was overcharging the company for rent. The reason you're seeing those huge displays or bugspray and other items, and why the aisles are extremely cluttered is because corporate regularly oversends product. Eventually it would get to the point where we would have to pull items out from the back and just find an empty spot for them on the floor so that we had room for the next truck in the backroom. Couple this with the fact that our hours were so restrictive that we couldn't afford to have more than 2 people on shift per day, and we had very little time to bounce between helping out customers, tidying up shelves, running register, and all the while monitoring for thieves (A very big problem in this type of store, we'd find several empty packages of batteries or pens stuffed behind other products at least once a week). I loved the crew I worked with as well as the majority of regulars that would come in (Store was in a very small town just a little bit away from me, so it was very easy to remember folks), but I have never seen the levels of greed and incompetence like I did with those on the corporate level.

[@christopherborum6551]

That sounds like a terrible work experience. I would not have spent a single second monitoring for thieves, though. If nothing else, it helps clear space for new deliveries.

[@BenShapirosLowerLip]

Family Dollar is a great place to buy things like deodorant, dryer sheets and laundry soap.

[@bigmike9128]

I buy most of my toiletries and OTC medicine there.

[@FloridaMan69.]

walmart is better

[@kathurtado13]

@@FloridaMan69. i agree. The portion of what you get at family dollar/dollar general/dollar tree are really small!! For $2.75+ more you get quadrupled of quantity of product ALWAYS at Walmart.

[@ALKBeauty]

Cleanest family dollar I’ve ever seen. Wow.

[@norbertop.niebres6320]

A rarity. 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

[@veovis523]

I know, right? The one I visited in my town had piles of merchandise on the floor and opened drink bottles randomly placed on the shelves.

[@davidlang1125]

Have to agree, the one close to me is filthy and messy with really dingy lighting. Also not every item is cheap. Some stuff is actually more expensive than in normal supermarkets. I didn’t realize Dollar Tree was run by the same company - totally different experience and unlike Family Dollar everything is actually one dollar.

[@malcolmdrake6137]

Makes me wonder where some people live that all their stores are filthy.

[@pancakes308]

I hate those “live love laugh” signs too I feel you! How corny

[@genderbender6958]

It was a British slogan during ww1 sadly it has been ruined

[@hellosimpledays4536]

I think some can look kinda cute and classy..... i like having a welcoming home that looks nice

[@xxXthekevXxx]

I definitely hate all the “faith” ones. We get it, you’re religious. You don’t have to remind me every day. “Have a blessed day!” falls into this category too.

[@BigNateDoggOG]

Kevin Benoit some people aren’t even religious like that some people just like to surround themselves with positive things and quotes or sayings

[@xxXthekevXxx]

MidwestDabber710 idk how it is where you are from, but in the US, the terms “faith” and “blessed” are almost exclusively lowkey ways to tell other people you are a Christian.

[@amandaschroeder799]

Family Dollar in my area is the scummy store, and Dollar General is the nicer of the 2

[@brandikagaming]

Same here! Even dollar tree is nicer, more items and cheaper too,

[@popupheadlights]

Indeed, my local dollar tree is a small walk away with really nice staff and the store always looks super nice and organized it was build around 8 years ago

[@ominous-omnipresent-they]

That's how it is here in Mississippi. Apparently, DG is doing better than FD here because they just opened up a new store 5 minutes from my house in the middle of the sticks.

[@apelegs5253]

@@ominous-omnipresent-they same a few years back

[@qwirky1709]

Really? My local Dollar trees are great, Family Dollar is okay, but the Dollar Generals are _trash_

[@rosepupsupreme]

As a former Dollar General Employee I can say. No matter how much you scrub the floors, the store always looks dingy. Too much product shoved into a little store, with no way to track dates on food products and an hour allotment that barely allowed for the required 2 employees it's not a great place to work. Besides one employee basically upkeeping the store while the other basically acts as a handler it's no wonder why the stores always look messy. Discount stores draw the worst kind of customer, the kind that genuinely doesn't care how the store is when they leave. That's not 100% of the customers, but when one or two comes through on a busy day, and you can leave the register it can be a pain. I have a personal distinct memory of being at the store until 2am one morning because the manager couldn't find any other way to clean the store up. Most discount stores are unsustainable and have a constant flow of workers in and out, unable to hold anybody because of the unreasonable expectations they have for new workers. I'm glad I got out of there, and I advise against shopping there if possible until they treat their employees and managers better, it's an honest shitshow.

[@ominous-omnipresent-they]

Damn, they do attract the worse customers, don't they?

[@rosepupsupreme]

@@ominous-omnipresent-they they really do, and this is coming from someone who liked working customer service and interacting with people. Out of any place I worked Dollar General customers were generally snooty, rude, impatient and all around clueless. Some of them would leave messes in their wake, some of them would go after my hair or the pins on my collar, just the worst kind of customer you can encounter.

[@ghettodollarstore4766]

I've done 2am shifts for the same reason working for family dollar, you may have the staffing to hold more than a three man crew but not the payroll hours, and if you cant pay people to work there is no way anyone is gonna get back there to do anything as far as merchandising cleaning or zoning

[@rosepupsupreme]

@@ghettodollarstore4766 oh and definitely agreed. Nobody is gonna be focused on cleaning if all they're doing is struggling to run the store. Dollar General was my first job and I distinctly remember the task of taking apart their backroom. Basically, they'd get one truck a week, think one full sized ISO shipping container packed to the brim. They'd wheel it all into one room, and it would sit until someone got around to it, which would tend to be either super late or after closing. I spent my whole first week digging through that room and packing it out, even worse still, when I reached the back of the room, there was product that was out of date, meaning that those U-Boats had been sitting for 2 years, which is literally how long the store had been open at the time.

[@j.monica8794]

They attract THE WORST i feel your pain i worked at all 3😩

[@Coolhandkelpy]

*sees title of the video* “...What IS going on with family dollar????”

[@NegitoroIsBestShip]

I had the same thought lol I was actually curious.

[@andysorensen1737]

I ain’t trusting that Jif next to the bug spray, but you do you.

[@Denver0054]

Andy Sorensen Make a Peanut butter and bug spray sandwich?

[@MelodieOctavia]

It's actually fairly illegal to put poisonous materials on the same shelf as food items. Like federally illegal.

[@rjchavers9267]

@68Camaro RS/SS your shopping cart point shoots down the others "federally illegal" point hands down. If it were truly an issue, we couldn't toss them into a cart together.

[@rjchavers9267]

@68Camaro RS/SS you just made another fantastic point using the legality of marijuana! 😂👍

[@Jen6374]

Dollar tree owns ithem

[@scottduerson3724]

A local store here in Knoxville, TN had a sign up saying the store is closed due to lack of employees....tells you all you need to know about how employees are treated there.

[@stephenbenoit]

I know that one!

[@scorpioshit5159]

I work at the ones in gallatin TN and they treat us very well. I love my job so much. I’ve been working there for nearly 8 months. Our store got a remodel instead of getting closed.

[@Deenique16]

Most retail associates are treated like crap.

[@Deenique16]

@@scorpioshit5159 lucky. Not everyone is

[@SirIsaacClarke]

Working at Dollar General made me honestly hate humanity for some time.

[@annielane5621]

You got that right.

[@itrthho]

Retail does that to people

[@ladydede88]

I work for 4 days and left 😂

[@SLIPKNOTmaggot262]

Why

[@dawnpatrol700]

not all retail. I worked at higher-end retail stores most of my life and loved it. Their hours programs were sufficient, I was salaried and, provided I kicked in a few free hours here and there, things ran smooth. I loved the customers and they were conscientious of fixing anything they dropped etc. I also managed a dollar store and no matter how many hours I worked, I could never have caught up. 2 completely different worlds.

[@msbae]

Dollar Tree is both better AND CHEAPER than Family Dollar.

[@girlscanbedrummers5449]

Ugh, I agree. There's one I walk to that's quite far away but I only go there because it's cheaper than CVS which is closer but too pricey. (I don't drive). I'd be relieved if ours turned into a dollar tree too. Also dollar tree has a WAY better craft section and don't over price the supplies I need for doll restorations. 4 dollars for magic easers but 3 dollars for their brand? I don't think so. Yeah Family dollar is a jip.

[@NancyNegative0808]

They are owned by the same company but family dollar isn't a dollar store

[@Clay3613]

Dollar General

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

@@NancyNegative0808 family Dollar is a variety Dollar store as in there is a lot of items for a dollar but there's many more items that's more than a dollar!!! But they are very so much a dollar store in fact they compete directly with Dollar general!!

[@Clay3613]

@@TominoCabana It's not a dollar store, it's a budget general store.

[@fixit4u73]

Just call it Family Store since nothing is $1.

[@coydog7902]

The Family General store

[@bigshepherd3127]

Just call it Store cuz they don't sell families

[@CR-kr9cs]

Bushwacker actually... uncle rays chips are a dollar, and they’re surprisingly good. If I had the choice of any brand of bbq chip, I would choose uncle rays every time.

[@emptycasketcreations4697]

@@CR-kr9cs this man knows where the quality snacks are. Try the bacon maple one. Very acquired taste but pretty damn good

[@ltorchonable]

Bushwacker I know right smh

[@SiimonFerocious]

"Grandpa, what did you do when you were a young man? " "I was a retail store archeologist..." Ugh

[@SiimonFerocious]

Couldn't have said it any better myself, accept all the soy boy stuff, tend to lean a little farther to the right then most actually. Also Johnny Cash is the man 👍

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

Better than standing at an intersection with a sign " Homeless Vet. Please help" and turning down job offers.

[@SiimonFerocious]

@@DavidSmith-sb2ix I'd have to agree with you, see a lot of that in my town, fake homeless and lazy People my age. Judging by his subscribers this gentleman should be doing ok for income

[@MoDavI-sl7iy]

@@mdsuave13 great come back!!!

[@rubywingo6030]

A lot of people in rural communities where Walmart will not go, depend on Family Dollar and Dollar Store and Dollar Trees.

[@AuroraLalune]

Where I live we are down the street from a walmart, a dollar tree, and a 99 cent store(which isn't a true dollar store but a lot of stuff in it IS a dollar. Just quite a bit isn't too)

[@lukegervais6257]

We have no choice

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

There used to be mom and pop type stores. But mom and pop always wanted to be watching things all the time while the store is open and have as few employees as possible, while also only working 9-5. Non relative employees of these places had no chance of getting anywhere.

[@oddeagle1968]

@@MilwaukeeF40C Good points...they also used to be closed on Sunday! When one is far from a store, FamDo is there....

[@gordontheengineswifedr.nirmal]

Walmart will not come to nyc n we r lucky to have these stores. They r nicer here than they r in pa. They’re much dingier in parts of Allentown

[@milliehayes]

Dollar General did something quite smart here in rural New York... They moved into communities that were more than 10 miles from a big box store...

[@TommyTomTompkins]

They do that everywhere not just New York

[@silent_stalker3687]

twistr No, here they ran Walmart out of business and bought the MR. Blobby theme park... :/ they even hijacked Uber to drive by their store on their GPS system and offer reduce prices to and from their store if you take Uber

[@willhillman7451]

They do this everywhere im pretty sure thats kinda their thing mountain towns

[@matthewronsson]

@@willhillman7451 I recall hearing about how they target financially stagnant to depressed areas with great success.

[@TommyTomTompkins]

@@silent_stalker3687 interesting

[@Thes4LT]

In my experience, Wal Mart's prices are mostly equivalent with Dollar General, Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, etc. unless you buy premium goods. Discount stores don't really have a market space in large cities and are probably better-suited for rural areas that need grocery stores but are too sparsely populated or impoverished to be economically viable for a mass retailer.

[@drby0788]

I find family dollar to be a more “dirty” looking store than dollar general 🤷‍♂️

[@olibernstein6834]

Agreed.

[@angelaschmalke7836]

I agree. If it a new family dollar it be more clean but the old ones are run down.

[@Road2PBATour]

Yes always full of ghetto ass employee too

[@the_weed_in_your_garden9319]

Family Dollar is in the bad part of town here

[@olibernstein6834]

@@Road2PBATour Thats also true lol

[@graywolf2241]

Family dollar always looks like black Friday happened or better yet a tornado

[@taltoskieron]

Black Friday is more destructive.

[@johniii8147]

They obviously don’t care how their stores look

[@tracymallon8485]

LoL it's true😀

[@epsorks]

John Iii what part of there are normally only 2 employees available all day do you not understand?

[@1WEareBUFO1]

Dollar tree is like this too. though not for lack of trying on the employees part. consumers are destructive. if something is broken or spilled most customers will just walk right through it. its super rare that someone spills a liter of soda or a bottle of detergent and they actually tell you about it. its usually three or four customers in if ANYONE mentions it.

[@khaos2353]

I use to work at family dollar and we only have one assistant manager and one cashier for every shift except restock days...

[@Kogal4life]

We would have 2 at night because you need 2 people for accountability reasons.

[@kathurtado13]

What!! That's insane.

[@Larry]

Congrats on getting the comment section back dude!

[@williehawaii9967]

Larry. Do a top ten things you find at a dollar tree

[@kyazarshadala8114]

wait what happened to the comment section?

[@angrypoo2121]

@@kyazarshadala8114 they got disabled on all of the retail archeology vids, for a few months, but they're back now

[@danielyu8022]

KZbin's algorithims suck.

[@MrVuckFiacom]

Why was the comments disabled? I'm so lost.

[@nachgeben]

Bro, that 'copper crisper' is legit. Use it with fries all the time, and it does amazing.

[@aldofhister6859]

How's the shoplifting in the stores easy or not ?

[@stephenmiller9009]

@@aldofhister6859 depends if you don't go there at all you can walk right out with whatever you want. Of course the employees might follow you for a distance even though they shouldn't.

[@indioloco]

I gotta get that on my list to do & grab

[@tallen4520]

@@aldofhister6859 I sell tons of their stuff at flea markets....

[@Road2PBATour]

I bought muffins one time at family dollar that were lethal they were brick hard😂😂

[@mr.shuckle6656]

What I've noticed where I live dollar general and family dollar are actually more expensive on certain products than places like Walmart

[@allancove4483]

I know what you mean. Just read my previous post here, if you really wanna know about our Family Dollar & what not just me & my wife but our small town has to all of a sudden deal with. Its OUTRAGEOUS what Family Dollar is doing. OUTRAGEOUS!

[@Deenique16]

@@allancove4483 been like this for years

[@allancove4483]

@@Deenique16 Not really. Use to be whenever I would go to Family Dollar where I live, I would know how much money to bring & how much our food & cleaning supplies & hygiene items would cost. But in the last I would say 7 months or so, anymore its like playing a guessing game with them. Family Dollar I mean. Its like ALL the products me & my wife would buy have gone UP in price. Guess I could understand maybe a few items going up, but Jesus Christ its like EVERYTHING has been slowly going up. I know a quarter here & a quarter there might not seem like much, but they DO ADD UP especially when you live on a budget like me & my wife & I'm sure a lot of others do, & ya have a long grocery list. I mean after a while those quarters not only add up, but soon they turn into DOLLARS. And IMO these Family Dollar stores are NOT about trying to price gouge us, there suppose to be about helping shoppers save money. So anymore we shop online & buy our things in bulk. It saves us money, we have a larger selection to choose from, we won't have to fight traffic, we won't have to go outside when its bad, there's no waiting in line, & it all gets delivered right to our front door. We'll go to Family Dollar in a pinch, if we need something right away, but as for shopping there on a regular basis those days are GONE. And yesterday we went past Family Dollar on our way to the only grocery store we have & guess what? Family Dollar's parking lot was BONE EMPTY of shoppers. And that's not the only time me & my wife noticed this. And in talking to people, they ALL AGREE, Family Dollar is getting out of control & YES they are losing customers because of it. Family Dollar use to make a good chunk of money off me & my wife, but not anymore. My wife & I HOPE they turn our Family Dollar into a Dollar Tree because we certainly need one in these parts. As for the rest of the people out there, WATCH YOUR DOLLARS & SHOP WISELY & you'll be glad you did. And BYE Family Dollar, cos you just loss two more customers. Me & my wife.

[@brutalbasspro]

I worked at the dollar store in my teens, I was fork lift driver, stocked the shelves, ran the register, janitor, and had to deal with PALLETS of freight like at least 5 pallets a week. It was fun i gave my friends my discount and my apartment had all the finest dollar store goods imaginable.

[@Jarretthicks12]

Family dollars are only in the hood where I live a d are forever getting robbed because of how understaffed they are. It's sad Btw I just subscribed

[@benjaminclark4030]

My 70yr old grandmother would regularly get robbed while working at family dollar's around my town.

[@HairyPixels]

it's not because the hood people are robbers?

[@USARAY1947]

That's hilarious commentary on the lack of intelligence of the robbers.

[@Sorrowdusk]

@@USARAY1947 What would smart robbers do?

[@USARAY1947]

@@Sorrowdusk Rob a place with more money to be had.

[@darkdistiller]

The stench of Downy and detergent is so strong in the one near I live, I've gotten food products that have ended up tasting like I imagine laundry taste like.

[@maxwell4322]

Small store- you might think well it should be easier to keep up and clean. Buuuut it's less payroll for staffing.

[@melissakimball3375]

@Ferra Joachim... It isn't easy.... Alot of times there's freight to run, so recovery of the aisles is all but forgotten.... They leave it to the manager to clean up all the messes people make during the day... I'm an Assistant Manager at my local store.

[@michaelhowell5874]

@@melissakimball3375 you're absolutely right. I'm an asm as well, and it's in no way easy. Best of luck to you.

[@MuneageDaydream]

It’s dangerous to only have one employee on duty. The store’s too big to go off and straighten up and leave the register unmanned.

[@melissakimball3375]

@gayboyzig A lot of times they are NOT right, but feel that entitlement allows them to treat any worker ANY way they want.... I've had people threaten to call district over a policy that I read to them verbatim.... And DON'T get me started on the extreme couponers... 😬

[@melissakimball3375]

@@michaelhowell5874 You've got that right! I guess you have to be super-human sometimes....

[@metroidmayhem8463]

I worked at a family dollar for two years. Other than the usual retail B.S. it was an ok job and the company seemed like a decent one.

[@jackandrew5676]

If you haven't had Uncle Rays chips, try them. They are honestly some of the BEST chips I've had.

[@metamorphicorder]

They are really good.

[@bigloudnoise]

Where I live (Iowa), the comparison of Family Dollar vs. Dollar General tends to be the reverse of your observation in most cases. The Dollar Generals around here are usually cleaner and better organized than Family Dollars, even when comparing the older stores that have been around for many years (although admittedly you are more likely to find new DGs than new FDs around here). I imagine it varies from region to region. Also, regarding your statement that "discount stores don't have to be dingy and cluttered", I definitely agree. Case in point: Five Below, which has been expanding like crazy lately and has some very awesome stores that are brightly lit and actually fun to shop in...although granted most of the stuff they carry is much different than what Family Dollar and other such discount stores carry (i.e. mostly clothes & cosmetics, limited housewares, a lot of cheap electronics, and no groceries aside from candy & drinks).

[@jennteal5265]

That'd be true with the exception of Sioux Center/Orange City area. I liked the Family Dollar better but I think it's the pricing compared to Dollar General. The Dollar General in P'burg is so gross tho XD

[@CommodoreFan64]

It's the same here in most of the south where Dollar General stomps all over Family Dollar in terms of better store locations, cleaner stores, better product layouts, etc.. Most Family Dollars I've seen in my area have been in poor neighbors where they have had to put common items under lock, and key to keep them from getting stolen along with bars on the windows.

[@Flavorspread]

I know your pain with those “life live love signs “ because my mom has a lot of those hanging on the walls around the house and I hate it because the saying are really stupid.

[@bennycheca9426]

charles black dude my mom does as well and they are so annoying since I hate my family

[@zac8953]

@@bennycheca9426 Yikes

[@saltinekraken6884]

Soccer moms and housewives eat that crap up with a spoon.

[@mariana8495]

Move out lol

[@imtiredtiredtired]

Live laugh love in this world full of horrible suffering and? In which the economy have turned to shit? Miss me with that boomer shit Karen i ain't laughing in this horrible mess

[@nathanwalker7983]

Nothing symbolizes a dying discount chain better than Mighty No. 9 on the Wii U.

[@completelydisinterested9298]

I am glad to hear I am not the only one sick to death of “Live Laugh Love” and all those other cheesy idioms. Great video!

[@katherinesavarese6009]

Street Stories and that overdone cursive too

[@reesedaniel5835]

And the "Keep Calm and (insert some nonsense here)" ......I was sick of that the first time I saw it!

[@Dargonhuman]

Right? Every time I see something like that all I can think about is "middle class, basic bitch pretending to be philosophical"

[@southernyuppie]

And if "live, laugh, love" doesn't work..."lock, load, and aim"!

[@leroylowe5921]

@@reesedaniel5835 "Keep Calm and insert some nonsense here" would make a good bumper sticker.

[@HappyQuailsLC]

I think the overstocking is an effort to save on restocking manpower, which is usually carried out overnight.

[@DarkSymphony777]

It's part that and part corporate don't listen to the managers over what they need

[@gooblop]

Family Dollar doesn't do anything "overnight", they pay 1 or 2 people to be in the store at a time and once the store is closed the paperwork for the bank and corporate records is filled out and then you go home. The overstocking is to save on restocking time, because the 2 employees in the building must restock and recover the store at night while also being the only 2 on register while customers are still shopping, which means you never have time to enter the back room to get to overstock because as soon as you fix one section another is ruined again. I have to clean the toy and makeup sections 3+ times a night because if I finish cleaning them at 8:30pm, someone will wreck them at 9pm, and right before we close someone always needs to grab "one more thing" and knocks over half the things on the shelf to get it.

[@ambeegaming76]

Ya I think this too I don't end up in the USA often but when I do the store almost always has only one person working maybe two if I show up around the "busy" time

[@dakinayantv3245]

People used to look down on Kmart. Now people look back on them fondly. It seems that the shopping experience keeps getting dirtier and nastier.

[@museluvr]

It's all about money anymore, nevermind the customer or the employee selling the product so these wealthy sob's can get even wealthier, while the poor man struggles. Done with this. At least here, the Dollar Tree(s) I go to are clean, the staff nice (always see 2-3 people on staff) and though prices are $1.25 now, still good selections.

[@katherinesavarese6009]

one of the Family Dollar stores in my town has the BEST lawn and garden knick knacks.....great fairy houses, windchimes, bird feeders, planters, etc. And I always love their holiday stuff

[@TitaniumRhythm]

That's pretty much the only reason I go. I check them out in the spring and fall.

[@laddibugg]

@@TitaniumRhythm yup, same here. I live ladybugs and it's hard to find stuff with them but family Dollar and dollar tree have the best selection

[@sarjim4381]

At least everything at Dollar Tree really is one dollar. Places like Family Dollar and Dollar Tree are really just down market competitors to Walmart.

[@litigioussociety4249]

They're convenience stores. They sell many of the same items, at a higher price, but tend to be closer to residential neighborhoods. They used to have most things for a dollar, but changed when the older convenience stores of the 80s all died out.

[@sarjim4381]

@@litigioussociety4249 Gas stations are now the convenience stores from the 80s. Dollar Tree has now become the small town version of Walmart. They just opened a brand new and surprisingly large store in a town near me with a population of 500. They are about 20 miles from any type of grocery store and 35 miles from the nearest Walmart. It carries fresh produce, some refrigerated meat, and a large frozen food section. It really looks like a miniature Walmart. How they make money from a surrounding shopping area of maybe a thousand is beyond me, but it seems Dollar General is opening quite a few of these kinds of stores down here in the South.

[@RJT80]

Exactly. This isnt actually a dollar store. They are competing with Walmart. Good luck with that. Dollar Tree is good stuff so it is no wonder the parent company is going to change over to those. The only thing these not-really dollar stores used to carry that made them worth visting were some good cologne knockoffs. They were maybe $10 but well worth it. The Dollar Tree colognes look terrible.

[@Code7Unltd]

@@litigioussociety4249 Dixon, CA still has a 7-Eleven standing (No gas station there, just a water and air station), despite the death of convenience shops. They're placed next to a Beacon that has a convenience shop. Then again, what's the need for a convenience store when most stores are in walking distance of everybody's house?

[@React2Quick]

Well they might eventually not be able to keep everything at $1. Especially due to the amount of tariffs on goods that are imported.

[@Gabwabby]

I saw into the backroom of our local dollar general and it was a literal avalanche of boxes. Absolute OSHA violation right there

[@BoratWanksta]

The minimal staffing levels at Dollar General and Family Dollar, I think is why $1 and above stores like this(and similar such stores, not run by either of these 2 chains) always look cluttered and disorganized inside. Having to do both cashier register operations and also stocking, of course they won't always be able to focus on stocking/restocking store shelves, and hence why you see annoying things like occasional merchandise stacked up in the middle of aisles.

[@NinjasticFlare]

Just so you know. Dollar Tree regularly receives shipments of Shasta Cola. So you’re good

[@steelhere5519]

I saw a report in the news about drinking sodas in excess may lead to cancer. If black people are enjoying something, then it has to be unhealthy. Next. doctors are going to tell us that playing dominoes may lead to heart failure.

[@thatoneguy444]

@@steelhere5519 Black people? Doesn't everyone (almost everyone) drink those?

[@brandikagaming]

Fact, I see the dude there every morning taking in sodas

[@Frogtalkin]

@Honudes Gai their tobacco is better too

[@popupheadlights]

@@steelhere5519 nahh sugary foods are just horrible for every human no matter the race, especially when pumped full of chemicals

[@Dekuyper1000]

I was a manager at one of these shitholes... so here's some info. Clearance racks These are basically what happens after the home location is taken over by something else, or a special endcap runs it's course. In the case here, it looks like "season change" and "schematic reset". They also get a lot of random shit in to make special endcap displays. So like "beach fun" will have beach stuff. Everything will sell out except say, the squirt guns. Now it's on clearance and you have nothing else in store to pair it with. Bug spray is a huge seller. We'd move cases of that every week. Family Dollars (and I'm sure DG) business model is to have stores maintain a certain daily/weekly income. So for example $4000 a night. If a store exceeds that level, they drive to split the market and open a new store in the region. There are several "reasons", but one of them is, company policy used to be, if you had a high volume store, the employees got paid better. In the area I worked, there was a store every mile for a long stretch, and going in multiple directions. Driving to my store, I could pass up to 3 other Family dollars. In another region, I worked a extreme high volume store, that had 4 other FD's within a mile (about 3/4 in each direction) and 8 within 4 miles. The high volume store was built in like the 60s and they wanted to close it, and rebuild... so they kept trying to siphon off the income. (but the recession hit, and everyone was shopping at FD and DG) A note on the display box: There's a fair chance it got damaged in transport. The trucks are loaded with 2-4 stores worth of delivery, and packed in Tight. Crushed and smashed boxes are common. So are pickle jars and cat food that got broken during the journey to the store, covering everything in smells that you will never forget... Bleach too... Having a case of Franks Red hot break and cover everything made for a fun truck day... The bread section: The Bread, and freezers were all outside vendors. I never had a problem with them, but some stores had issues with their vendors. So a lot of times the District Manager just removed shelf space if they can't keep it stocked. The "cluttered" vibe is because of The "door to Shelf" policy. The idea is, there is no stock room. Everything is out and for sale. We once got like 32 cases of Angel soft in preperation for a sale... we had shelf space for 6 cases max. We were reprimanded for keeping them in the stock room and refilling the shelves as they emptied. So most Managers will shove shit anywhere they can. Staffing and no customers: You were there during a down period. Mornings for example, there's normally only a manger or assistant manager on site for the first few hours. A Cashier comes in around lunch, and leaves 4 hours later, when another replaces them Some places schedule an hour in between cashiers. This is due to not getting the payroll to staff properly. But yes, these places would look so much better with even just $100 extra in payroll. If you see a clean store, it's either the "home" store or "show store", or the manager is putting in 70+ hours a week (and getting paid for 52)

[@jeffsimon9101]

Dek Kuyper I was a store manager at Family Doller and you hit the nail right on the head. My start was doing very very well. It was always clean and very well-maintained. Until they cut my payroll and I have to work alone until 1 o’clock in the afternoon most days. When you have to do everything yourself and when the public finds out that you’re working every day alone, word gets out and Thieves come out. If you know what I mean. My store was a very long and deep store, so they would go to the back of the store and steal while I was up at the front ringing customers. I put in an average of 75 hours a week. A lot of times I worked seven days a week.

[@joeblack7197]

You nailed it.

[@Dekuyper1000]

​@@jeffsimon9101 I worked a beach store (couple actually). We're talking can see the ocean from the front door. We had 4 major events, Spring Break being one that would fill up every hotel for miles. Us, and a gas station were the only stores open, until you hit the Next FD in 1 direction, or Dollar tree in the other. We Begged for extra payroll. Nope... So I'd do a normal days worth of sales in the first 4 hours.... alone... Meanwhile the store was getting destroyed. As soon as I got a cashier and a lull in business, I'd go around and pick up all the now empty boxes...

[@chrismartin2123]

It does look like a LOT of work to keep these type of stores up the constant holiday crap cleaning up after destructive customers etc one near me manager seems to be there a lot and cashiers change often and they have to stock in between customers and i know they're not highly paid seems like they expect a lot for what they give which is why im super patient when i go there

[@johnratliff8507]

Most of the stores in my area whoever works in the mornings alone until 3p-4p daily now.

[@jabberw0cky13]

I personally love Dollar Tree and has become a very useful resource when I truly need it. Also, as for the lack of employees....that's retail in a nutshell. These companies are cheap and don't want to pay employees so they have less of them run stores.

[@alecnolastname4362]

"I should have bought those cookies." Liar you did buy them, Just becauses the didn't survive the car ride home...

[@saulg195]

wut?

[@neophobicnyctophile8264]

Now I’ve laughed and I’ve puked, but this is the closest I came to laughing while puking. There really ought to be an emoji for this...

[@HollowDesert]

I have no Idea what that was supposed to mean.

[@JipJDB]

I've always liked 99 cents Only stores since their products were of a higher quality with better organized stores.

[@RetailArchaeology]

I feel like the 99 Cents Only stores should be a model for the rest of the industry.

[@Code7Unltd]

Then again, if you look around you can find some low quality stuff in the 99 cents only stores. It's kinda the similar way with Dollar Tree, except all the quality stuff is mixed in with more cheap Chinesium (doesn't help matters that Dollar Tree owns a goods importer called "Greenbrier International").

[@TheRunningLeopard]

Same here, there's a Dollar Tree in my hometown and I really enjoy it. Some of their art supplies and organizational stuff have worked out really well for my tiny af dorm.

[@JipJDB]

@@Code7Unltd That is part of the reason why I haven't been shopping much there these days. I have been observing the quality of the products going downhill the past decade. My beef about Family Dollar is that almost all of the stores I've been in are usually kinda grimy.

[@Plasmacore_V]

There's both Dollar Trees and 99 Cents Only stores near me. While 99 Cents Only is a bigger store with more stock (including some produce) than Dollar Tree. I would estimate that the majority of the items in 99 Cents Only are *literally* then exact same items that Dollar Tree sells and imports through Greenbrier International.

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

Honestly, Uncle Ray's is a decent brand of chips.

[@vermin5367]

I love their spicy chips.

[@0popkm0]

They make sauce too its bomb

[@Gr3nadgr3gory]

Find those at sandy gas stations

[@kylepace1680]

Uncle Ray's > rap snacks

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

Uncle Ray's is the shit. I first found them in Michigan but I have found them in gas stations in other places. They are a Detroit based minor brand, like Jay's of Chicago. We need to support them. There is nothing wrong with Frito Lay quality but they are too big. It is good to split your purchases across many vendors and manufacturers. Snyder's and Utz tried merging a few years ago and the FTC put up interference due to probable lobbying by Frito Lay which already has the largest market share by far.

[@Syraa025]

I've seen a Family Dollar and Dollar General on the same street

[@jhughes8160]

In my town they are right beside each other

[@thatziggs4062]

I have one on the right, and left of my street, and a dollar tree further down the road

[@jhughes8160]

@@thatziggs4062 Yep, there's a Dollar Tree a little further down the road here too

[@antonjackson71]

@@thatziggs4062 you must live in poor town.

[@christinataylor6569]

In my town they are right beside each other

[@MTSPORTSCARDS]

This is where we will be looting during the Zombie apocalypse

[@michaeldalton7611]

MTSPORTSCARDS 😂😂😂

[@invaderzim1265]

@Vickie OGLESBY 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆LOL!!!! I guess we, human being, have nothing else to do except gossip!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@tiamystic]

Vickie OGLESBY Bet they were joking. 😉

[@davidhenderson3400]

@Vickie OGLESBY A zombie apocalypse does not have to have zombies. Let a real apocalypse happen and the living will be more dangerous that any zombie ever was.

[@indioloco]

Indeed

[@fatjellydonutglaze2230]

If you are in a wheelchair it is hard to get through Isles

[@duzted]

I love messy stores like that. Makes finding something youre looking for satisfying.

[@DblTap317]

The fact you have to "find" it is what pisses off most ppl lol

[@McOuroborosBurger]

A fellow man of good taste with that pineapple jarritos.

[@adanzavala4801]

These dude has mexican tastes haha

[@Dira7411]

The Family Dollars around me have really gotten nice, I’m hoping to hear from them today for a job... 🙌🏽

[@vwoklahoma1248]

good luck to ya

[@emilyfaye2104]

In my area Dollar General's are getting a revamp across all kinds of counties. The Family Dollar's in my area are in a perpetual state of neglect.

[@TheMeganExperience]

My friend had a custom "Please don't snort coke" sign in really elaborate script made for her bathroom; it's majestic af 🤣

[@ythrefwdas]

I love this channel. The footage is nice and smooth and the voice is really calming. Sadly though it seems retail and brick and mortar stores are a dying medium. So it is nice to see this channel bringing back some memories for many.

[@radar_the_fox]

I have a dollar general a mile from my house, and my dollar general is clean And recently they repainted and repaved the lot

[@BrokeBot]

In my state, the Dollar Generals are clean and the Family Dollars are gross

[@kayliesellers8718]

Lol, dude sounds like he's Bob brother from Bob's burgers.

[@John-zm4xl]

You mean Coach McGuirk’s brother

[@John-zm4xl]

yall bothered. ...

[@dorian6225]

While watching your video, I feel like I’m in a first player mode video game navigating through the store.

[@freakifications]

The 1980's video game bg music doesn't help either

[@BuySellKill]

If its a FPS about Retail Archaelogy "Liquidation Raider" = the whole game is one big microtransaction in itself LMAO !

[@qwertydog9795]

I didn't know retail archaeology was a thing until 1:30 this morning. Thank you 💛

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

He is basically doing anthropology.

[@EscobarFurious]

I was at the Dollar General by my house yesterday and I found an empty jug of Tropicana in one their refrigerators. 😳

[@burtcharleslancaster1501]

Escobar Furious Sr. Used to happen 24/7 when I worked at family dollar it’s horrible and stores that do good are getting screwed it’s a snowball effect on profits but they don’t care

[@paultaylor256]

LMAO!

[@anotherlittlepieceofmyart]

Somewhere close by there's an empty vodka bottle to go with it ;)

[@roykoopa7023]

Dollar General makes me think that I’m gonna get stabbed if I browse for too long

[@gordonwade5906]

Honestly I just love watching your videos. I love watching them to go to bed at night. Not saying they’re boring at all. I just find that they are calming and I love it. Please do more walk arounds in grocery stores or discount stores

[@steelhere5519]

He should do a video about why people love Bass Pro Shops and tractor pulls.

[@shawbros]

I repair computers at many different stores. Family Dollar and Dollar General are usually the dirtiest places that I work at.

[@omegasupreme5527]

And that would depend on where you are. There's a couple of scummy ones I've been in but the other twenty or so in the area aren't like that. So I simply don't go to the scummy ones anymore but I guess for job you don't have that option.

[@1WEareBUFO1]

mmmm i got a lotta dust under my computer.... the cubbys at our registers are so tight you cant reach the back of half of our computers to even dust them. They shut down and freeze up all the time. Then the world ends and it's my fault because people can't buy their soda.

[@stevef4010]

Lighter fluids/flamables by the emergency exit. Good plan.

[@chernobyl169]

I was more struck by the presence of peanut butter directly adjacent to roach poison on the clearance shelf.

[@notthegoatseguy]

Every Dollar Tree or otherwise actual dollar/99 cent store I've been to has been a mess. I really hate these so-called "discount" stores. When you get down to it, it really isn't discounted. They are usually selling the same or similar products you'd find at a Meijer, Target, or Wal-Mart but in a smaller quantity. So per ounce or whatever, you're probably paying more.

[@jinisteffani8035]

There is really no difference between Dollar General....and Family Dollar....product wise...it's about location and what's more convenient ...I go the DG a lot b/c I hate going to Walmart for one or two things...

[@markbierley4942]

Jini Steffani I'm with you there. I do most of my shopping at DG, I'm single, I don't need much, and it's so much more convenient than Wal-Mart. And it's not just for "low income" shoppers, I make over 100k a year. For me it's all about convenience.

[@xavierrivera9130]

Agreed both of them are actually more expensive than Wal-Mart so it's just about convenience

[@TheMegaRin]

As an European, I have no clue why I'm so fascinated about american grocery stores but here I am, absolutely loving this series.

[@TypeOneg]

Kawaii Stefan For the record this is not a normal grocery store.

[@wormhole4546]

I use to manage a Family Dollar until it closed but the payroll I had for the week was an average of 130 hours i had to work 52 so i had 78 left to work with. the store was open for 12 hours a day. Figure out how to run that store with that payroll, and many other stores I worked in were the same.

[@AustinTexas6thStreet]

I feel bad for managers and employees because they are ALWAYS trying to do like 3 things at once. Trying to stock while constantly stopping to check out customers etc. I bet being manager is godawful.... overworked and underpaid

[@andrewcomments5812]

Who doesn't love a shot of Raid on their PB&J sandwich?

[@paultaylor256]

It keeps the bugs away when you eat! LMAO

[@punchfisttop]

"no apologies" instead of "sorry" is a hoot!!! and PS I'm right there with you on those affirmation home decor signs! BARF!

[@fightclubhubbs]

Over-saturation is correct. I have a Dollar General and Dollar Tree next to each other in the shopping center across from my house and a family dollar not even a quarter mile away.

[@Ilovemycomputer2013]

fightclubhubbs There are 15 Dollar Generals and 8 Family Dollars in my town and it’s a medium sized town with about 150,000 people in it :/

[@deltoasuka7085]

Lol same there are a dollar general dollar tree and dollar family all liss than 10 blocks away and three family dollars within 3 miles

[@fightclubhubbs]

@@deltoasuka7085 Yeah these stores are outta control. In a span of a 6 mile radius from my house there are 4 family dollars, 4 dollar generals and 3 dollar trees.

[@BX138]

$1 in 1959 is worth $8.62 in today's money. $1 today would be worth 12 cents in 1959.

[@dmoore4520]

Makes no fucking sense

[@alexmarsh8464]

Cloudsurfin Skywalkin what doesn’t make sense? Punch 1/8.62 into a calculator; it’s 0.116, or 12 cents if you round.

[@weston9106]

Cloudsurfin Skywalkin yeah it makes a lot of sense

[@GilBatesLovesyou]

In the 1950s and 1960s they had "Dime stores" and "5 and 10 stores."

[@xthomasbhx]

Its called inflation. Caused by usury in our money system.

[@masonm2232]

this explains why my family dollar got converted to dollar tree

[@masterofthemash5310]

i agree with you on that live laugh love crap. also we back comment section!

[@RetailArchaeology]

It's so tacky!

[@litigioussociety4249]

Some people have more original phrases painted on their walls in homes now, often a verse from scripture or a quote from a book or movie; I definitely prefer to see that.

[@tjsynkral]

I want to take that fancy "Christ" sign at 7:42 and edit it to say "Christ on a Bike" and see how long it sits on my shelf before somebody notices it.

[@KayleeCee]

Those signs are awful. There's a lot of craft stores near where I live that carry those things, and the discount stores, of course. I remember those types of things being trendy in the 90s, but I'm sick and tired of looking at them. I prefer my home decor without cheesy platitudes plastered all over it.

[@KayleeCee]

@@litigioussociety4249 I would much rather see a literary quote than 'Live, Laugh, Love' or 'Faith, Family, Friends'. I know someone who had a custom built in cabinet made in their house with glass doors. They had someone who does glass etching come in and do a scene from The Velveteen Rabbit along with the quote from the book about what it means to be real. It turned out beautiful and it's really unique.

[@amyjacobs9945]

My nearby only 99cents store is very spacious. Family Dollar is not maneuver friendly.

[@christistratton]

Especially when you are on a mobility cart.

[@steelhere5519]

I remember when a Dollar Tree first opened in my community and hardly any customers were in the store when I shopped. Now, after 2 months, everybody and their cousins are in that store.

[@AKayfabe]

What’s going on with the Family Dollar in my city, is, lack of employees. When I go in there, there’s 2 people or even just one. Trying to run the cash register/check out, but also getting called to aisles, having to unload the delivery stuff, stock, and off and on they are in the back working and there’s no check out person for several min. Our Family Dollar isn’t dirty, really. But it’s cluttered and has no staff. It’s also located in an area of the city with huge theft problems, so having no staff just adds to the issue. By the way, until recently I thought Dollar General was an everything’s a dollar type place like dollar tree, I had no idea. Our Family Dollar And Dollar Tree are next to each other.

[@blissfulmemories6205]

Family Dollar is always getting robbed in SC. It's sad 😐

[@owenp5730]

You're right 😂 same with Dollar General

[@girlscanbedrummers5449]

These mother fuckers robbing frucking dollar stores. Well guess my lifes going great that's whats sad here. 😂🤣

[@owenp5730]

@@girlscanbedrummers5449 Someone from my high school in Columbia SC got arrested for breaking into Dollar General and filling the shopping bags with cash. I don't get how you're gonna get much from a dollar store but okay 😂😂😂

[@RC.41]

KILL thieves

[@batheandrelaxinmyshit6344]

@@RC.41 I am a lesbian

[@Fo0lish_mortals]

I really like their slogan “Family Dollar, Where stuff is more than a dollar”

[@rejachemno]

Damn

[@macsnafu]

There's both a Dollar General and Family Dollar within a few blocks of my house, and Dollar General is the better of the two. Cleaner, better lighting, better-staffed, and my DG has an expanded refrigerator section. It's Family Dollar that's a bit worse than DG. Yes, I've seen a few DGs that are not so good, but overall, DG seems better to me than FD. As for Dollar Tree, I'll admit that they're clean, well-lit, and well-staffed as well, but they do seem to have a greater portion of really cheap junk, which I assumed was from trying to keep everything at a dollar price tag.

[@albertmesa7034]

Family Dollar Overprice there blurays and dvds. plus my local Family Dollar is a mess and Only one cashier working while we wait on longggg line!!

[@grinnyyyyyyyyyyy]

They're not even a dollar store. Walmart has most stuff they have for cheaper and nothing there is a dollar.

[@cujoedaman]

It's a play on words, it's not that everything is a dollar, it's to make you think you're spending less. It doesn't work, though...

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@cujoedaman That all depends because if you live in a rural area such as myself, where a Walmart is a 30 min drive then the cost of gas in your car/truck, and your time for say something like a bottle of children's Tylenol when your kid gets a fever, and it's 8pm at night, then going to the Dollar General that's a 5 min walk from your house makes much more sense, at least in my book.

[@christopherborum6551]

"They seem to have bug poison everywhere." People who live in cheap apartments tend to have roaches.

[@museluvr]

Seems his personal opinions come out rather self-thinking only in these videos.

[@acronymtine9674]

7:58 that dude looks exactly like Gilderoy Lockhart, lol

[@lvly5357]

I like the local value stores better .. the ones with full furniture sets, a bunch of home goods AND actual food. 😭 like a mini Wal-Mart.

[@briana6174]

That “No Apologies” game took me out 😂😂 what a SORRY name for a game

[@AnotherTruth]

I like buying my RAID where I also buy my peanut butter! ;) Great video!

[@Kieorasama]

I prefer dollar tree! Dollar tree in my area carries Shasta!

[@pashminaa]

I work at a Dollar General, so I can provide some insight as to why they’re sometimes just so nasty. We have a good looking store for what we can make it, but they only give us about 118 hours a week to split between 6 people. That’s not enough hours to have two people in the store at all times, which means that managers are often at the store until 1pm all alone. My manager works about 70 hours a week, hours get cut according to last years sales, and if the district manager maintains a certain hour deficit for every store, they get a very healthy $$ bonus. My store is riddled with spiders. Our store’s layout is a FTB, but we are missing about the equivalent of 6 aisles. We have to stuff all of our extra shit into end caps and onto our clearance aisle. Employee turnover is extremely high. Our AC has been broken and the temperature inside was 91.6 F, and it wasn’t until we told them that our candy was melting (aka they were losing product) that they sent someone out to fix it. We don’t have to give our clearance aisles any rhyme or reason. We are literally told to price the item and toss it over there. We have way too much and unlike Family Dollar, we don’t give ANY discount on our clearance aisle except a 50% off sale about every 3 months and it only lasts for one weekend. DG corporate is painfully greedy and it really is the worst discount store.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Dollar 🌲 is the =%&÷. 😁 I only started to shop there like 2yr ago. I'm 48. Lol... I think these $1 places seem to have a lot of fake, off brand items...

[@roberthansen2008]

Dollar Tree does have some good things like that Yardley soap. I love that stuff. They do have Colgate and Crest and luden's cough drops and they do have those candy things you know like those big bags of those butterscotch candy and the Starlight candies and all the big bag candy you can get and rot your teeth out with. And they do have a fairly decent dark chocolate candy bar the solid dark chocolate and that one that has the strawberry I think or some Berry flavor in it dark chocolate

[@imspangies]

@gayboyzig I buy the tension headache meds like 10 at a time

[@ingriddubbel8468]

Your first sentence makes little sense.

[@KayleeCee]

It's weird that they're closing so many stores. They're just in the process of opening a new one in my town. The Dollar General/Family Dollar type of stores do quite well in smaller towns in the midwest.

[@CommodoreFan64]

Not so much Family Dollar, but Dollar General stores do really well here in small southern towns as well where it's a 20 to 30 min drive one way to get too a Walmart, or Target location. The DG location by my house I worked at for over 5 years is almost always busy unless it's early morning.

[@ThePokemaster1252]

Former FD Assistant manager/ manager here. The main problems I encountered when employed was that the district was HIGHLY understaffed, my District Manager had no idea how retail operated, Overtime to fix the main problems of the store was prohibited, and no one would listen to anyone. That's why I quit.

[@eddieboyky]

Carrot Cake Oreos? We've gone too far this time.

[@m.miller2374]

They should sell the condoms by the diapers

[@SuperBoomshack]

And the KY

[@peachgane]

Ex Family Dollar Assistant Manager here. Great video first of all. I didn't realize people did like "review" videos on different retail chains. That's really cool! So a lot of the Family Dollar store deal with terrible payroll. We usually would only get enough to provide wages for a Store Manager, two Assistant Managers and two cashiers if you're lucky. My store was in a low income area so we skirted by with just one cashier. The company itself treats its employs really badly, paying most minimum wage (which is $7.25 in my state) and not much more for managers. I'd been with the company for nearly 5 years and as an Assistant Manager I was only being paid $8 an hour. Even with this little wage they expect employees to do the work of a full staff. Frequently managers have to open their stores and run registers completely alone until 4pm-5pm when evening shift would come in. Aside from running the register we were expected to put up stock from the backroom or our shipments if we had it, clean the store, help customers, stop people from shoplifting, etc. As I said there's frequently only ever one employee in the entire store at one time. They made us unload our own trucks as well and frequently only one person there to take sometimes over 1,000 boxes of merch off these trucks. Some of these employees having to do this were not young strapping lads or lasses either... Sometimes elders who would quite often get hurt in the process. The benefits are basically non existent and terrible and the workers compensation portion of it all literally takes over half a year or more to actually finalize and go through. I know my manager waiting nearly an entire year to get a surgery for her back when she was crushed by the truck rollers that fell over. In the meantime they still expected her to come to work! They very frequently wouldn't allow us to take breaks, or we couldn't anyway since we were the only ones in the store. I know that quite often I was scared to death of getting robbed. (We'd had gun scares before.) Employees don't get any holidays off either (not even Christmas Day) nor were we compensated for working on a holiday. So basically what all this was leading up to was just the fact that employees are simply not compensated enough or taken care of well enough to care about how the store looks or how it runs. It's a shame really because if the company just cared a little more for its employees, paid them better, gave them a few major holidays off... They would work really hard for the store! I really enjoyed working retail. I liked setting the store and coming up with fun displays to entice customers... but after years of working full-time as a manager and still not being able to afford the cost of living, I just couldn't stay there any longer.

[@shadarrslingblade8263]

Don’t forget they have a lot of shop lifters and robberies too.

[@crystalflower8568]

You must be one of the shoplifters