Comment on Dollar Stores: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apparently it means, “you’re going to spend one dollar plus some other dollars.”

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can see how that would make for a slightly unwieldy name for a store tbf 🤷

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  at this point all it means is that you spend dollars there and not euros or pesos or dinars

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• son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the case of Dollar General and Family Dollar, it never has.

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  • mihnt@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dollar Tree, the last of the the actual dollar stores, has their prices set at $1.25 and are starting to add $3 and $5 items in their stores. It’s the only dollar store I will even go to. The rest are a ripoff.

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    • isles@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Perhaps, I find the quality at Dollar Tree to be worse than say, Walmart, and sometimes even more expensive. I don’t have any practical use for dollar stores.

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      • mihnt@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I only go there for canned goods and other food related items. That stuff is still pretty decent.

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• SheeEttin@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Inflation means a dollar doesn’t go as far as it used to. You don’t see five-and-dimes or penny candy any more either.

  Some things are still exactly a dollar, but often they have far less product in them. For example, a roll of tape with only a third as much tape on it as a full roll at other stores.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No way. This has nothing to do with inflation. We went down the toy aisle because even though my daughter is 13, she and I enjoy looking at toys, and there were toys for over $20. She likes squishy stress toys and there was a three toy box of squishy sushi toys. It was $15. You can get something similar at a place like Walmart for $5. Even a place like Spencer’s Gifts would charge maybe $10.

    I know for a fact that maybe 10 years ago, the toys were at most $5. That’s not inflation. That’s just gouging your poor customers who have come to rely on you because any local store they might have gone to has closed and the closest supermarket is an hour’s drive away.

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