Comment on Dollar General warns poorer US consumers are running out of money

PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Their prices are no better than somewhere like Walmart,

  And their products are smaller. There are Dollar General sized versions.

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  • billbasher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember when you could get a 3L soda for a dollar… Not anymore

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t live in the country, huh? Sometimes they’re the only general stores for miles and miles and miles. They’re a great fit, in that niche.

  My camp is outside a town of 900 souls. There’s a Dollar General and a gas-station/general-store/grocery. Almost never hit the DG, but it’s damned nice they’re there in case I need something the other place doesn’t have.

  In your example, my situation, the nearest Walmarts are 45-minutes west and 30-minutes east. Do you really want to take my DG away and force me to spend the gas and time? If you proposed that in this town, you’d have a riot on your hands.

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  • ggppjj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d prefer an independently owned small store, as someone who installs cash register systems for independently owned stores primarily in rural West Virginia.

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