There's a Dollar General store within less than 10 miles N-S-E-W of me, plus one Family Dollar. All stock most common major brands of dry and canned food, dairy products, frozen foods, some automotive products, snacks, housewares, greeting cards, toys, clothing, etc., etc., as well as their own DG store brands. A couple of the DGs stock some basic fresh fruit and veggies. A big Dollar General Market in a nearby town stocks all and more of the above plus fresh prepackaged meat and does one heck of a good business. Parking lot is almost always full on most afternoons and especially weekends.
Printed DG receipts have a $5 off $25 pretax purchase coupon on Saturdays, plus each week offer varying assortment of what they call online "Digital" coupons on different products, often amounting to some pretty health discounts.
(Local DG store is also a no charge FedEx package drop-off site.)
Family Dollar was bought out by Dollar Tree a few years back and closed or sold off a bunch of FD stores. They changed a few into DT stores and a few into combo DT/FD stores. The one local FD store is in a nice big new building, plenty of parking, cleaner and better organized than the DG store but overall a bit more expensive on same products than the local DG store. The DG and FD stores here are just a few blocks apart but the DG outsells the FD store by a good bit.
We used to have a couple of local "mom and pop" stores here. Both were privately owned but actually part of a franchised regional grocery chain they bought most stock through. Their prices kept getting more and more expensive, outdated products, etc., so little by little most locals opted to just buy daily essentials from them and do the bulk of their major grocery shopping in one of four nearby larger towns eventually leading them to close their doors.
Last edited by joken2; 07/17/21.
