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Quagmire75
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Re: Are all Dollar Generals so fucked [Re: Phantom45]
#26394246 - 12/21/19 03:47 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah the one here is pretty messed up most of the time. I heard it's getting a new manager so we'll see what happens.
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Cujllickduo



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Re: Are all Dollar Generals so fucked [Re: Quagmire75]
#26394249 - 12/21/19 03:48 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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ello
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Morel Guy
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Re: Are all Dollar Generals so fucked [Re: Cujllickduo]
#26394324 - 12/21/19 04:38 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I read that dollar general is the pits for small rural communities. Because they have nothing else.
It would stink to live off of Dollar General.
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BigGameHunter
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Re: Are all Dollar Generals so fucked [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#26394350 - 12/21/19 05:00 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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It seems like there is always a Dollar General popping up somewhere. I live in a rural area with small towns here & there. Just in a 20 mile radius of my residence there are 11 General Dollar/Family Dollar stores.
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Morel Guy
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Re: Are all Dollar Generals so fucked [Re: BigGameHunter]
#26394367 - 12/21/19 05:05 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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They seriously have a corner on the market in some areas. It's either a gas station or dollar general.
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Patlal
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Re: Are all Dollar Generals so fucked [Re: lowbrow]
#26394496 - 12/21/19 06:33 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Patlal said: Up here we have Dollarama. It's normally a big store with shelves packed we items that go from a quarter to 5$. It's very organized and the lay out is similar from store to store. One of the fastest growing chain in Canada.
I have a vefy limited list of items I buy there though. I prefer quality.
Ontario also has Dollar Tree where everything come to like $1.40 after tax, I kinda like it better then Dollarama
You have a fourty cents on the dollar tax? Really?
No.
13 cents on the dollar tax (on average)
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Re: Are all Dollar Generals so fucked [Re: Patlal]
#26394517 - 12/21/19 06:52 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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6.5% here unless certain things. Hard to figure booze tax. Frds tax that high. Tobacco tax is huge, $8 for a pack of american spirits. I paid $1.10 out the door for marbolos in the late 90s.
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Re: Are all Dollar Generals so fucked [Re: Big Worm]
#26395135 - 12/22/19 08:14 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Big Worm said: Well the grocery stores sell the same products but for at least three times the price as Dollar General and Dollar Tree do.
Why not go there.
I do for certain items.
But the same bag of Doritos is $1 there and my local Safeway tries charging $3.99 for the same shit. Seasoning , same thing. Body wash, same. If they are still profiting , then that means other grocery stores are excessively over charging for items.
One perspective is when Dollar General has 20,000 stores, they have a much greater ability to purchase goods at lower prices. So it's not necessarily the neighborhood grocery store gouging you. I'm not screaming things should be "fair" - but this is the situation. I sometimes shop at these dollar stores.
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Tulipslave
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Re: Are all Dollar Generals so fucked [Re: Big Worm]
#26395341 - 12/22/19 10:20 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Big Worm said: If they are still profiting , then that means other grocery stores are excessively over charging for items.
there is some truth to that, but not entirely. large grocery chains have large warehouses (think distribution centers) where food may sit for months, possibly a year or more, as in-store stock is reordered from the warehouses.
these "discount" type stores (which dollar tree was around 30+ years ago when i was a kid) don't have the same amount of warehouse space, so they are often buying goods at cheaper prices from manufacturers/distributors as the goods age. they also buy off-brand items, discontinued items, etc....they are also more likely to not have the exact same products in-store from month to month, as opposed to a grocery store which generally has the same thing.
for instance, i bought a pair of earbuds yesterday for $1 that would've been $10-20 anywhere else.
now, for the past 5-10 years, maybe more, Dollar General has really tried to up its game and break away from the social stigma that many attach to these places. they are moving into lots of small towns and rural locations, often at the opposition of local shoppers and business owners.
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