most items are now $1.25!
― xzanfar, Thursday, 20 January 2022 17:24 (three years ago)
A better solution would have been to price everything as one 'dollar token' available at the entrance for $1.25, like at a fairground
― Alba, Thursday, 20 January 2022 17:32 (three years ago)
Okay now I believe inflation is a real thing
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 January 2022 18:16 (three years ago)
inflation always renders cost-based nomenclature obsolete, like the 'five and dime store' and Motel 66
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 20 January 2022 18:23 (three years ago)
Shave and a haircut, 100 bits
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― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:55 (three years ago)
it's not a tree anymore either
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:10 (three years ago)
the headline I saw was that people were 'sick to their stomach' over this increase which seems like a bit of an overreaction
― akm, Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:22 (three years ago)
Two Buck Shrubit could really be an opportunity for the 2 collar bill to finally catch on
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:22 (three years ago)
The Dollar Tree down the street has a great deal on bagged ice... one dollar! Or maybe 1.25 now
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:23 (three years ago)
xpost I saw the same headline
Dollar Tree probably does deserve a thread of it's own... in many dying bergs in the midwest & southeast, Dollar Tree is literally the only store left, and they usually demand serious tax breaks to bother expanding into these forgotten places
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:25 (three years ago)
One opened up down the way (they took over half an existing auto parts store, and the building looks suspiciously like it was probably a Safeway in the distant past), and I've gone in a couple times, generally buying only spices etc. (kosher salt, paprika, garlic salt) and cleaning supplies
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:28 (three years ago)
Oh, and candy... what used to be called penny candy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:29 (three years ago)
Where I live the same company operates Dollar General. This New Yorker story from last year was pretty bleak and horrifying, but I go to my local one a couple of times a week to buy soda and bread and whatnot.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:34 (three years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpQjN7yQ_8c
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 January 2022 21:43 (three years ago)
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/01/ann-arbor-dollar-tree-closes-until-further-notice-after-manager-quits.html
― BrianB, Thursday, 20 January 2022 22:11 (three years ago)
they own family dollar too which is definitely more than a dollar now as is dollar general so they should just rename it as dollar plus tree!
― xzanfar, Friday, 21 January 2022 02:01 (three years ago)
Dollar General was never an actual "Dollar Store", they just sell things priced at flat dollar prices ($2, $5, $8 etc.)
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 21 January 2022 02:04 (three years ago)
On more than one occasion I've been to a Dollar Store behind someone asking the cashier more or less repeatedly, "how much is this?"
"One dollar.""How much is this?""A dollar.""Is this a dollar?""Yes."
I can only assume this price increase is leading to long delays and chaos.
Good place to go to for party supplies/cheap decorations, poster board, mailing envelopes, baking pans, um ... that's about all I get there. I've seen people get vacuum packed steaks there, and I think, you know, better to just not eat meat than eat *that* meat.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 January 2022 02:40 (three years ago)
i'll never forget where i was this day
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 January 2022 05:19 (three years ago)
We used to have The 95¢ Store in my neighbourhood, don't know what became of that.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 21 January 2022 15:35 (three years ago)
it changed names to the $2 store, but nobody knew it was the same store
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 January 2022 15:40 (three years ago)
For the longest time I thought Five Below was a store for winter gear, like North Face.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 January 2022 15:46 (three years ago)
I've only driven by one on the 101 in Oxnard, and I've thought the same until now.
― Ssäm Sauce | Martha Stewart (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 January 2022 15:50 (three years ago)
½ of ½ (Name Brand Clothing) offers to our customers the best department store and mall store name brands on current merchandise at the best possible prices, usually 1/2 of 1/2 of retail.
I still haven't figured out what this store is about. So, they're saying they sell their items at just a quarter of the retail price?
I guess if they called it "The Quarter Store", everyone would think all the prices were 25¢.
― pplains, Monday, 24 January 2022 17:23 (three years ago)
Could just call it 75% Off and be clear. Maybe a focus group thought Half of Half sounded smaller.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 24 January 2022 18:57 (three years ago)
Could just call it 75% Off and be clear.
Reminds me of when the drummer from the Replacements (a quartet) released a solo album and called it 75% Less Fat.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 24 January 2022 19:39 (three years ago)
This is a joke, right? Right?
https://i.imgur.com/Lw7rMp1.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 23:43 (three years ago)
Is Pound Town the capital of Poundland?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 23:45 (three years ago)
This could be why Euro Disneyland changed its name to Disneyland Park.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 00:09 (three years ago)
This is a joke, right? _Right?_🖼
― mardheamac (gyac), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 00:21 (three years ago)
Poundstretcher
Poundstretcher Extreme
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 03:30 (three years ago)
See also.
"Let them poundcake."
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 03:34 (three years ago)