dollar tree is no longer just a dollar!

most items are now $1.25!

A better solution would have been to price everything as one 'dollar token' available at the entrance for $1.25, like at a fairground

Okay now I believe inflation is a real thing

inflation always renders cost-based nomenclature obsolete, like the 'five and dime store' and Motel 66

Shave and a haircut, 100 bits

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it's not a tree anymore either

the headline I saw was that people were 'sick to their stomach' over this increase which seems like a bit of an overreaction

Two Buck Shrub
it could really be an opportunity for the 2 collar bill to finally catch on

The Dollar Tree down the street has a great deal on bagged ice... one dollar! Or maybe 1.25 now

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

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

Oh, and candy... what used to be called penny candy

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpQjN7yQ_8c

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/01/ann-arbor-dollar-tree-closes-until-further-notice-after-manager-quits.html

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!

Dollar General was never an actual "Dollar Store", they just sell things priced at flat dollar prices ($2, $5, $8 etc.)

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.

i'll never forget where i was this day

We used to have The 95¢ Store in my neighbourhood, don't know what became of that.

it changed names to the $2 store, but nobody knew it was the same store

For the longest time I thought Five Below was a store for winter gear, like North Face.

I've only driven by one on the 101 in Oxnard, and I've thought the same until now.

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¢.

Could just call it 75% Off and be clear. Maybe a focus group thought Half of Half sounded smaller.

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.

This is a joke, right? Right?

https://i.imgur.com/Lw7rMp1.jpg

Is Pound Town the capital of Poundland?

This could be why Euro Disneyland changed its name to Disneyland Park.

This is a joke, right? _Right?_

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Poundstretcher

Poundstretcher Extreme

See also.

"Let them poundcake."