Dollar store

[mwj]

They are local and save a trip for one or two things. They were never meant to be a one stop shop.

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

Shampoo for Roy and a helium balloon is all I ever get there.

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

The only thing I have ever bought at the dollar store is birthday and Christmas cards yo send to the grandkids. It is 50 miles to the nearest Walmart. My shadow never crosses their door step.

I need Walmart! Whenever I'm feeling down, fat, depressed or ugly I go to Walmart. It doesn't take long for me to feel like a champion. And you won't need to watch the weather channel either, when it's cold people wear two pairs of pajamas, when warm they wear one.

 

[sstterry]

The only thing I have ever bought at the dollar store is birthday and Christmas cards yo send to the grandkids. It is 50 miles to the nearest Walmart. My shadow never crosses their door step.

We have Dollar Generals here every 2 miles or so.

 

[greybeard]

I've probably bought a dozen last second Christmas gifts and birthday gifts and anniversary gifts at Dollar Stores and 7-11s over the decades but in 75 years I ain't never bought anything called body wash anywhere.

 

[Lucky]

There's a Dollar General 7 miles from my house and I'm in there 4-5 times a week for this or that. The closest grocery stores are 35-40 miles from us. We do a pick up order every 2 weeks or so from Walmart. The Dollar General might be a touch higher but it beats fighting 500 people at the grocery store to get a few things.

I've noticed most Convenience Stores and some small grocery stores quit putting prices on things. I can tell you from experience this isn't to trick anyone. The prices change so often you'd never keep up with them.

 

[sstterry]

There's a Dollar General 7 miles from my house and I'm in there 4-5 times a week for this or that. The closet grocery stores are 35-40 miles from us. We do a pick up order every 2 weeks or so from Walmart. The Dollar General might be a touch higher but it beats fighting 500 people at the grocery store to get a few things.

I've noticed most Convenience Stores and some small grocery stores quit putting prices on things. I can tell you from experience this isn't to trick anyone. The prices change so often you'd never keep up with them.

Our main Dollar General added fresh produce a few years ago and I pop in pretty often to pick up something we might need now, rather than driving 15 miles to get it.

 

[Dave]

There was 2 grocery stores in town owned by the same cooperation. They shut one down. The other one became a disorganized zoo. It is 25 miles to that store. Out of frustration we went 50 miles the other direction to the next closest store. Turned out to be a lot cheaper. More than paid for the time and expense of the extra driving. Went from a line at maybe 2 check outs to 8 and no self check out. At this different store probably half the people are speaking Spanish. I joke about loudly inquire about the ice (meaning crushed or block ice not ICE) just to see how fast the store clears out.

 

[Ky hills]

We are about 2-3 miles from a Dollar General, about the same distance from a Save A Lot grocery store, about 6-7 miles from both Walmart and Krogers. Rumor is that a Publix is coming too. I can easily see that if a dollar store was our only close option I’d be glad to have it.
When I was young we there was also a Winn Dixie, Piggly Wiggly, and IGA but those are closed down. Now there’s a dollar store in the both shopping centers where the Winn Dixie and the Pig was. When we were in high school and driving, the thing to do was cruisin the Pig (driving around through the shopping center parking lot.
Dollar stores here are very disheveled, and when you come out the smell of the store permeates your clothes.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

We have a local grocery store right in town but I'd have to win the lottery to feed my family of 5 shopping there.

Walmart bananas were $.50/lb, local $3.89/lb.

Walmart potatoes $2.47/5lb, local $6.99/4lb.

Don't have to buy too many items to make the 120 mile round trip to Walmart worth it.

 

[Dave]

We have a local grocery store right in town but I'd have to win the lottery to feed my family of 5 shopping there.

Walmart bananas were $.50/lb, local $3.89/lb.

Walmart potatoes $2.47/5lb, local $6.99/4lb.

Don't have to buy too many items to make the 120 mile round trip to Walmart worth it.

That is how it is here. What was running around $100 a week is about $70 for the same things. 100 miles round trip or 50 miles round trip. I can sure go the extra 50 miles for less than $30. When winter gets around to showing up we may shop at the closer one on occasions depending on the roads.

 

[mwj]

If the store is used when the weather is ''bad'' how do you expect them to survive in good weather? You can not stop selling until the price goes up in the retail business. There expenses are there every day and they have to be paid.

 

[Ebenezer]

We are about 2-3 miles from a Dollar General, about the same distance from a Save A Lot grocery store, about 6-7 miles from both Walmart and Krogers. Rumor is that a Publix is coming too. I can easily see that if a dollar store was our only close option I’d be glad to have it.
When I was young we there was also a Winn Dixie, Piggly Wiggly, and IGA but those are closed down. Now there’s a dollar store in the both shopping centers where the Winn Dixie and the Pig was. When we were in high school and driving, the thing to do was cruisin the Pig (driving around through the shopping center parking lot.
Dollar stores here are very disheveled, and when you come out the smell of the store permeates your clothes.

An old joke; used to be grocery stores around like you mentioned like Winn Dixie, Big Star and Piggley Wiggley. It was rumored that Dolly Parton was buying them all to make her own chain to be called Big and Wiggley in Dixie.

 

[Lucky]

I got scheduled OT for two nights so ran into Walmart last night about 5:45 to get some Salmon for my lunch. Parking lot was packed but I finally found a spot. Got what I needed after making it through the maze of people and the huge pick up order carts. Then it was the self check out line. Looked like 30 or more people in front of me that needed a gallon of bleach poured in their gene pool. I'd have gladly paid an extra $2-3 if the Dollar General had fresh Salmon, beef, or chicken.

 

[CowboyRam]

We have a Walmart and Smith's. We used to have a Safeway, but it closed up several years ago. The rumor is that someone did a survey and Riverton had to much food for the population, so Safeway closed. Safeway was the best store by far. We shop at Walmart because it is the closest to us; Smiths we have to drive to the other side of town. Smith's has better produce and bread.

 

[lynnmcmahan]

Amazon Sam’s & Walmart have memberships; however, they do ship. I drive by a Walmart 4 days a week. MWF my wife and I go to Planet fitness, Thursday is bible study. I told a fellow that I wish Walmart would put a cemetery in their parking lot. That way my wife could visits me four days a week. I guess some people get a kick out of making fun of people. If you notice most TV ads say fat and ugly folks will tell you what is the trend. Also, the white guy is usually the nit wit.

 

[Travlr]

Smith's has better produce and bread.

Every once in a while I see a beautiful peach at Walmart and get suckered into buying it (or more than one) and when I get home they are always so bad I throw them away. I've never had a decent peach from Walmart.

 

[Stonewall Joe]

An old joke; used to be grocery stores around like you mentioned like Winn Dixie, Big Star and Piggley Wiggley. It was rumored that Dolly Parton was buying them all to make her own chain to be called Big and Wiggley in Dixie.

When I was 17 I met Dolly Parton, I think she must have been 23 or so, I was in awe of her. She was wearing a light blue dress and had on a pair of spike heel shoes and even with that was not much over 5' tall. I had never seen a woman that looked like that and I thought she was beautiful. To me she looked like one of the Christmas angels you see on the top of a tree except with very big boobs.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

Where I live now in Oregon the nearest town is an 'employee owned' grocery store. Its a 20 mile round trip to go there. The price of gas is $3.65 at the moment. Our pants wearing he/she governor who wears men's clothing put another 6 cents gallon cash regular gas for aa total 4.3 billion $ tax increase. But the people of Oregon signed up for a referendum petition to vote on this. THIS is Democracy at work.

I might go to the local sky high cost 'employee owned' grocery store for something I need that am out of. But the farm is supplied food basically by the Coos Bay Walmart. I make a foraging trip there once every 3 or 4 weeks. Walmart brand items are much cheaper and it's worth the trip. Also, the clientele of Walmart can be highly entertaining.

The one Dollar Tree I would not go in there. Too many police reports of crimes committed by bums.

 

[Ky hills]

Our closest Dollar General is close to 2 housing projects and in walking distance of the largest one. That probably figured into their pick of that location.
We went to Walmart and Krogers tonight.
We’ve noticed that about ever time we go to Walmart we smell what we believe to be people smoking pot in the parking lot.
A lot of times our grocery runs look like we’ve came onto the set of a low budget zombie movie.
Tonight there was the usual sight of people wearing pajamas, but seemed like more than usual.
Sometimes there’s people that apparently haven’t bathed in a while and the stench will turn your stomach. Tonight a somebody fitting that description crossed in front of us and we turned down another aisle rather abruptly.
When we were walking out the store we both caught a whiff of what we think was residual pot smoke. As we got close to the truck noticed a real skinny woman staggering up through one of the curbed off sections with gravel at the start of a parking row.