Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Dollar General. Coming to a nice rural area near you.

Dollar General is on the move in rural areas. They have a high success rate at getting County Commissioners to rezone rural/agricultural areas for commercial use. We are fighting one right now. They seem to want a store about every five to seven miles. Disgusting places, they are.

We have one that filled in an empty building that began life as a grocery store. They are not always the most neatly laid out stores, but I find many a good buy in the food aisles.

Never been in one.

Sound interesting.

10% off storewide for vets on Veterans Day.

there is one within walking distance. and one about every three miles.

They are basically miniature Walmarts, they sell the same crap such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies, basic apparel, housewares and seasonal items.

Walmart hates them, they are taking a healthy chunk outta their business.

$25.6 billion in sales in fiscal 2018
15,472 retail locations as of March 1, 2019
Approximately 135,000 employees
Ranked #123 on the Fortune 500 list as of May 2018

DG has done that in middle Tn.

Stores in the middle of nowhere and it appeals to my need. I hate going all the way 20 miles into our little pissant town of 150,000 people.

I have 3 DG stores all about 6-7 miles from me. 12 pack of cold Natty Light is never more than 5 mins away.


I interviewed with them about 8 years ago as a geographical marketing analyst. More traveling than I wanted to do.

Captain of the high school cheerleading squad now is a cashier at one those local stores. She was gonna be somebody back in the day.
Now she looks like Learherface from Texas chainsaw massacre. Covered in tatts, smokers deep raspy voice.

I chuckle when I go thru the checkout.

I have nothing against getting a store where rural people can shop without driving 40 miles round trip. Around here they are a great thing in some rural counties. They aren't like a Walmart that puts everybody else out of business. In fact this OP is the first ever compliant I've heard about Dollar General.

Got one close by.
Need to go there tomorrow to get papertowels.
Got a gun stock that needs painted.
Proly grab a 2 liter of pop too.


Time it right and you can get a parade of white trash.

Most of the time it's 75 yr old ladies.
Buicks pack the little lot (park away from them if ya can).

In our closest small town there is a DG, another about 7 miles away and then one other about 7 miles beyond that one. All were built in built up area and most replaced a decrepit building. They go where people are and are very handy for people that don't want to or can't afford to drive the 25 miles to the "big town" of 20,000.

I like having a Dollar General close by, Fugg Walmart.

We cannot seem to locate a store in that area,,,

Is what I get when I googled em, but we ain't short on dollar stores, town of 7K or so we have two dollar joints

Comon dude Walmart rocks

I hear ya.....capitalism and free enterprise suck.

Who owns dollar general?

They supply the ten reading glasses that abound the house, garage and vehicles.

There are too damn many of them.

With small town and neighborhood mom and pop grocery stores and general stores pretty much a thing of the past Dollar General saw a need and filled it. Over the counter medicines, personal hygiene products, engine oil, batteries, fresh eggs, milk,butter, bread, light bulbs, snacks, frozen or canned and dry foods, laundry and cleaning supplies, socks, T-shirts, underwear? They have it in name brand and/or their store brands. Most Saturdays they have a coupon special of $5 off of total $25 spent.

Ha! At $8 a pair reading glasses is one thing DG ain’t good at.

Stop by Home Depot and pick up their $5 ones, all in a manly black plastic, they last longer’n any of the other cheap glasses too.

They've popped up like mushrooms after a rain here in NE AL. Rural but heavily populated area. They do A LOT of business and don't mind starting a new one just a few miles down the road from another.