Dollar Tree’s Conquest of Low Income America

[mastermind]

being broke costs a lot of money

100%

 

[MeachTheMonster]

They actually had to pass a law to prevent them from putting these shyts on every corner in my city.

Worst stores ever. Always understaffed. Dirty outside. Shelves under stocked. Messy inside with half the products still in the boxes in the aisles.


But I still go in there cause it’s close and convenient

Some people don’t have a choice cause they don’t have a car. Those are the people getting exploited

 

[Dameon Farrow]

Buy their stock. They'll eventually do a stock split to bring in more investors ad it'll go even higher!

 

[brick james]

I love cheap stores but Dollar Tree is shyt. Really low quality goods and the food is all terrible for you.

99 Cent Only stores aren't a mecca, but you can eat a healthy lifestyle there. You can get produce and healthy options. Dollar Tree is all cancer-and-heart-disease-causing shyt.

Nah, you can eat healthy as fukk if you need to at Dollar Tree too. You can get brown rice, chicken, canned veggies, canned beans, etc.

 

[88m3]

anyone who cares about their community won't let them operate

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

It depends on what you are buying at Dollar Tree, some of the stuff can be purchased in bulk for cheaper at other stores (i.e. tuna, tomato paste, beans) but for things like cleaning products where there aren't greater gaps in quantity and quality between their stuff and their competitors (i.e. Bleach, Window Cleaner, Stationery) it makes sense to purchase from Dollar Tree.

This. If you do your due diligence it's not hard at all to save money at Dollar Tree. I haven't bought bleach from anywhere else in years. Name brand facial tissue is cheaper at Dollar Tree as well. It's not difficult to do price comparisons by unit price with your local supermarkets for identical goods to find out where the savings are.

Overall they're obviously price gouging and exploitative to lower income families, but it's not a universally shyt place to buy certain products. I've bought kitchen utensils, wrapping paper, baking soda, stationary items, greeting cards, hand soap, and plenty of other shyt from there recently that are far less expensive than grocery store prices per unit.

I can't remember the last time I bought any food items from there though. Agree that most of that shyt is straight garbage to consume.

 

[hashmander]

i buy greeting cards from dollar tree. i even use to buy jamaican beef patties to snack on before i started getting them from costco. i still buy from the restaurants when i'm out on the street because nothing beats a fresh properly handmade beef patty.